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 details: 

4H

Mr Hicks

Miss Alessia & Miss Hawkins

4C

Miss Corradine

Mrs Fleming

 

 

We are looking forward to welcoming you all back for the Spring term and are excited to share the fun things we have planned.

Key Dates and Reminders:

Mon 5th Jan - INSET day (no children)

Tues 6th Jan - First day back for children 

Mon 19th Jan - FOC Pre-loved book sale

Sat 7th Feb - FOC Quiz night

Fri 13th Feb - FOC Friendship Disco 

 

Mon 16th Feb - Fri 20th Feb - HALF TERM

 

Mon 23rd Feb - Children back to school 

Tues 24th Feb - Year 3, 4 & 6 Young voices (choir only)

Thurs 5th Mar - World Book Day 

Friday 6th Mar - FOC Pre-loved uniform and book sale

Mon 23rd Mar - FOC Easter Fayre

Fri 27th Mar - Last day of term for Easter 

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Music

Recycling songs 

1. Compose and perform an original song about plastic pollution using researched facts, with
clear lyrics, rhythm, and expressive dynamics.
2. Collaborate in groups to create a structured song and confidently record and present the
performance using digital tools.

and

Exploring Musical Contrasts 

1. Develop instrumental and ensemble skills by performing vocal and instrumental parts with
control of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and contrasts, such as staccato and legato, as well as
crescendo and decrescendo.
2. Compose and interpret musical ideas by improvising and layering parts that convey emotion
and maintain ensemble cohesion.

Design and Technology

During this term, we will be looking at and creating our very own pop up books.

 

 

Art

During this term, we will be looking at shading and sketching techniques

PE

This term, our PE session will be on Tuesday afternoons. Please ensure your children come to school in their PE kits. 

The children will commence swimming on the 9th January. Swimming will continue on Friday mornings up to the 20th March 2025. Please ensure your child comes to school 'swim ready', with their swimwear worn underneath their PE kits and their changing bags ready. Thank you.

Useful Websites

Mathletics

https://login.mathletics.com/

 

 

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. 

 

NameFormat
Files
EYE Year 4 Writing in more detail.pdf.pdf .pdf
EYE Year 4 Reading Writing.pdf .pdf

Maths

This half term we will be learning about the following: 

  • Measure – Conversion of Units
  • Measures – Compare, Estimate and Calculate
  • Discrete and Continuous Data (Time Graphs), Including Application of Scales and 
    Division
  • Perimeter
  • Properties of Shape
  • Symmetry
  • Decimal Numbers
  • Calculating With Decimals
  • Measure – Money
  • Problem Solving involving Decimals to Two Decimal Places
  • Add and Subtract Fractions with the Same Denominator
  • Finding Fractions of Quantities
  • Fractions in the Context of Measure 
  • Equivalent Fractions, Ordering and Comparing
  • Multiply Two and Three-digit Numbers by a One-digit Number Using a Formal 
    Written Layout
  • Divide Two and Three-digit Numbers by a One-digit Number Using a Formal 
    Written Layout

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
  • converting measurements

Maths topics this year

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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 living things and their habitats. We will be.....

•      explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment

•      recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways

•      describe some of the characteristics of the vertebrate (fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds) groups (e.g. warm-blooded, have fur, lay eggs)

•      group animals into vertebrate (fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds) and invertebrates groups (snails, slugs, spiders, worms and insects)

•      recognise that green plants are the ultimate source of food for all animals

•      recognise that a food chain must always start with a green plant (a producer)

•      represent feeding relationships within a habitat with food chains beginning with a green plant which ‘produces’ food for the other organisms

•      use and understand the terms: producer, predator and prey

•      construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey (Teacher Note: statement moved from NC ‘Animals including humans’ to improve progression within topics)

•      know the function of some of the more complex features which aid survival in specific habitats (e.g. gills, blubber, camouflage)

•      describe why different animals and plants live in different habitats

•      recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

•      describe how humans can cause changes to environments

•      explain that different organisms are found in different habitats because of differences in environmental factors

 

 

 

 

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TIMES TABLE PRACTISE SHEETS

NameFormat
Files
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 17.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 18.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 19.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 20.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 21.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 22.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 23.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 24.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 25.pdf.pdf .pdf
Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 26.pdf.pdf .pdf

GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION ACTIVITY SHEETS

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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 'Leon and the place between'. We will be doing lots of writing. Our grammar focus will be:

  • noun phrases
  • punctuation 
  • subordinating conjunctions 
  • Coordinating conjunctions 
  • prepositions  
  • Ambitious vocabulary
  • Rules for speech 

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:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 

Username: cranborne

Password: school 1 

We also have access to PurpleMash Library which is accessable through their PurpleMash log in.

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. 

 

Water Bottles

Please ensure that your child comes in each day with a labelled water bottle. It is vital that the children stay hydrated throughout the day, even in the colder months.

Pencil Cases

The children will need pencil cases in school this term.  Please make sure all the equipment is clearly labelled with your child's name. Please include the following items

  • HB pencils
  • Eraser
  • Pencil sharpener
  • Ruler
  • A purple pen
  • Glue Stick
  • Whiteboard pen 

You may also want to include some coloured pencils as well.

 

Curriculum Overview

 See below for an overview of the curriculum subjects we will be teaching this year.

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