Cranborne Primary School
Welcome to Year 4!
Welcome to our Year 4's class page!
Here you will find information about our learning, experiences, class information and any other news
Our Year 4 team
Staff contact details:
4W:
Mrs Watson: awatson@cranborne.herts.sch.uk
4H
Mr Hicks: chicks@cranborne.herts.sch.uk
We are really looking forward to all the exciting things we are going to be doing over summer term.
Key Dates and Reminders:
Tuesday 22nd April 2025 - Inset day/ Parent Consultations
Wednesday 23rd April 2025 - First day back for children
Friday 25th April 2025 - Year 2 and 4 bake sale
Monday 5th May 2025 - May day bank holiday (School Closed)
Friday 23rd May - Oakmere mini marathon
Monday 26th - Friday 30th May 2025 - Half Term Holiday - School Closed
Monday 2nd June 2025 - All children back to school
Wednesday 11th - Friday 13th June 2025 - Year 4 Gulliver's Residential trip
Tuesday 17th June 2025 - Sports day
Tuesday 24th June 2025 - Exhibition Evening – 4:15pm to 6:15pm: All Welcome
Tuesday 8th July 2025 - Summer Music Concert (instruments and choir) 1:30pm
Thursday 10th July 2025 - Transition day
Tuesday 22nd July 2025 - End of Term (1:15pm finish)
Wednesday 23rd July 2025 - INSET Day
Music
Expression and improvisation
and
The show must go on!
How does music shape our way of life?
How does music connect us with the enviroment?
Design and Technology
During this term we will be looking at and creating our very own pop up book.
Art
During this term, we will be practising sketching and different shading techniques.
PE
This term, our PE session will be on Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure your children come to school in their PE kits.
The children will commence swimming on the 2nd May. Swimming will continue on Friday mornings up to the 18th July 2025. Please ensure your child comes to school 'swim ready', with their swim wear worn underneath their PE kits and their changing bags ready. Thank you.
Useful Websites
Mathletics
Purple Mash
https://www.purplemash.com/cranborneen6 can
Please find your child's log in details in their reading record
Purple mash is a great resource with lots of resources to explore.
Times Table Rockstarshttps://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/29172
Please find your child's log in details in their reading records.
Times Table Rockstars is a fun and engaging way for children to practice their times tables.
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| EYE Year 4 Writing in more detail.pdf.pdf | |||
| EYE Year 4 Reading WritingEYE Year 4 Reading Writing | EYE Year 4 Reading Writing |
Maths
This half term we will be learning about the following:
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Equivalent Fractions, Ordering and Comparing
- Divide Two and Three-digit Numbers by a One-digit Number Using a Formal
Written Layout - Time – Read, Write Calculate and Convert Time on Analogue and Digital 12- and
24-Hour Clocks - Statistics – Interpret and Present Continuous and Discrete Data, Solve Problems
incorporating Measures - Roman Numerals to 100 and Zero
- Negative Numbers – Counting through Zero and Calculating in Context
- Geometry
- Multiplication and division
- Area
- Problem solving
- Timesing and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000
- Fraction review
Each morning, your child will continue to complete their 'Early Morning Work' to consolidate their skills and build mental fluency.
How can I help my child?
Ask your child to explain to you what they have done during the school day. Ask your children to pretend to be the teacher and explain the methods that they have learnt in class. Please look on Purple Mash and Mathletics for tasks that will support your child's learning.
Mental fluency
Helping your child with their mental fluency is the most effective way to improve your children's skills.
Please ensure you are helping your child by asking them questions on the following topics:
- Times tables (up to 12 x 12)
- Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
- Halving numbers - even tricky ones such as 72
- Doubling numbers
- Adding
- Subtracting
- Telling the time
Maths topics this year
Times tables
Each week, we will be testing children on their table knowledge using Purple Mash. Children will be tested weekly using Ipads. There will be 6 seconds in between each question. Each week we will record a score out of 25.
In June, all children in the UK will be sitting a government timetable test. They will be expected the know all their multiplication facts ( times tables) up to 12 x 12 and recall these at speed. The test will be on the iPads and they will have 5 seconds to answer the questions.
Please continue to support your child by practicing regularly home. Each week we will be revisiting a different multiplication table and every Friday the children will be doing a test based on their tables they have learnt so far.
TIMESTABLES ROCKSTARS: This is a brilliant resource to use to assist children with their times table knowledge.
Every child has their log in details in their reading record.
Science
. This term we will be looking at sound. We will be.....
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• identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating • identify what is vibrating in a range of musical instruments • generalise that sounds are produced when objects vibrate • describe how sounds are generated by specific objects • suggest ways of producing sounds • recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear • find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it • distinguish between pitch and volume (loudness) • know that altering vibrations alters the pitch or volume • suggest how to change the loudness of the sounds produced by a range of musical instruments • explore how to vary the pitch and volume of sounds from a variety of objects or instruments • find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it • recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases describe what they observe when they move further away from the source of a sound |
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Extension
TIMES TABLE PRACTISE SHEETS
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| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 17.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 18.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 19.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 20.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 21.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 22.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 23.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 24.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 25.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 26.pdf.pdf |
GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION ACTIVITY SHEETS
Working from home
If your child wishes to do some work at home, please see below for some work they may wish to complete.
We suggest your child should complete the following:
Maths (White Rose), English (Oak academy or Bitesize), Independent reading and a Science task..
Maths
Choose one of the following
Click on the link for lessons
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-1/
Use the BBC link to pick your lesson from the day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfch7yc
You may like to explore these lessons from Oak Academy.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/place-value-00b7
English
Click on the link to a sequence based on the book 'Hansel and Gretel', by Anthony Brown.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/hansel-and-gretel-by-anthony-browne-e2f3
English
This half term we will be studying 'The Boy at the back of the class'. We will be doing lots of writing. Our grammar focus will be:
- noun phrases
- punctuation
- subordinating conjunctions
- Coordinating conjunctions
- prepositions
- Fronted adverbials
- Speech
- Ambitious vocabulary
Throughout Year 4, the children will be working towards achieving their pen licences. We will continuously work on their handwriting, ensuring it is joined up and neat.
Each week, we will continue to teach reading comprehension skills through a scheme called 'Cracking Comprehension'.
Oxford owl:
For extra spelling resources and ebooks please follow this link:
Username: cranborne
Password: school 1
Reading
Helping children to develop a love of reading is our passion at Cranborne. In order to develop their fluency and comprehension skills, pupils are expected to read everyday for at least 10 minutes (from a variety of texts) and have their reading record signed. These will be checked regularly.
We will continue to use the Accelerate Reader programme and quizzes in school. Please do speak to your class teacher if you have any questions.
Reminders
Homework
We expect the children to be reading and practising their timetable 5 times per week.
School closure
In the event of school closure, all work will be set via the school webpage.
If your child is required to self isolate, please inform your child's class teacher and we will provide work for them to complete.
Curriculum Overview
See below for an overview of the curriculum subjects we will be teaching this year.