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Year 4

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Year 4

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Welcome to Year 4!

We would like to happily welcome your child into Year 4 and we are very excited to support them on part of their journey through Red Hill Primary School.

At Red Hill, we have three Year 4 classes:

4W- Miss Wooldridge

4M- Mrs Mehmet

4B- Mr Bull

4D- Ms Deeben

Our year group TA is Mrs Smoothy

Curriculum

Please click below to see the curriculum map for Year 4 as well as the topic web for this half term. These are working documents however, so they may change as we progress into the term. The Year 4 Curriculum Meeting slides are also below.

Our Learning

Our topics for this half term are ‘Brainwave: metacognition’ and ‘Temples, Tombs and Treasures’.

Brainwaves: metacognition.

Do you remember learning about the brain? We are going to find out more about how our brain and memory work to help us learn. This three week unit is all about metacognition! It will help us with all our future learning and actually make us better learners!

Temples, Tombs and Treasures.

We will be learning about who the first Ancient civilisations were, where they settled in the world and why they chose that particular place. We will look at how these civilisations grew rapidly and lasted for thousands of years. We will explore what their family life was like, how they communicated their life, their religion, traditions and beliefs, who ruled these civilisations, their tombs- how they were built, why they were built and the process of making a mummy! We will investigate the treasures and paintings left behind in these tombs and how this can tell us about life in the past. We will look at their stories and retell these stories with music and compare life in the past to life today. We will need to be historians, artists, geographers and musicians.

What was it like to live in Ancient Egypt or Ancient Sumner? Would you like a time machine to go back and visit the past?

English

In English, we will be focusing on the following genres of writing: 

– Poetry

– Persuasive writing (adverbs)

– First person diary entries

Maths

Maths this half term will be:

– Place value

– Addition and subtraction

Supporting your child with their learning at home

Please see below for weekly homework sheets. Children should have brought these home every Friday in their homework books, and should hand them back into school every Wednesday.

Weekly homework includes:

Maths-  A short maths challenge linking to the week’s learning. Children should also log into TTRS (https://ttrockstars.com) and practise their multiplication recall.

Spellings- Children will have 10 spellings sent home linking to a spelling pattern being taught in class. These will be tested in the spelling session on a Wednesday morning.

IPC- At the bottom of the homework will be some questions linking to the topics being taught in class. Please ask your children these questions and get them talking about all the incredible learning that is taking place in classrooms! 

Reading-Reading should be completed a minimum of 3x a week, but ideally for 10 minutes each evening. This should be completed with an adult, who then records the reading session in the reading record. These should be brought to school daily.

Please see below for a recommended reading list.

PE

4W PE- Wednesday and Thursday

4M PE- Wednesday and Thursday

4D PE- Wednesday and Thursday

4B PE- Wednesday and Thursday

PE kits (as outlined in the uniform letter):

  • Plain t-shirt in house colour (red, blue, green, yellow) P.E. t-shirt with the embroidered badge can still be worn
  • Navy shorts/skort, tracksuit bottoms or leggings/cycling shorts
  • Trainers or plimsolls
  • Navy sweatshirt or hoodie (iron on badge can be applied but not necessary.

No football kits to worn to school. If children have a club after school, they need to bring this into school in a bag to change into before or after the club.