4B

Welcome to our wonderful Year 4 class page!

My name is Mrs Begum and I am the class teacher in 4B. We also have Mr Beven and Ms Elmi who are our wonderful Learning Support Assistants.  On Tuesday we have PE in the afternoon with Mr Chuback.  On Wednesday we have PE in the morning with Ms Smith.  We also have Ms Rogan on Tuesday afternoon's for Computing.  

In year 4, we love to see each other learn and develop. It's important we always work hard and try our best. We encourage each other to have a positive attitude to learning and adopt a 'have a go' attitude, even if that means we sometimes make mistakes. We know that mistakes help us grow and achieve our goals.  Year 4 is full of aspiration; energy and our primary aim is to empower pupils on their journey to becoming confident and independent life-long learners.

Throughout the year we will be exploring many interesting topics. Science topics will allow us to investigate the power of Electricity, with opportunities to construct our own circuits. If that’s not enough, we will also uncover the wonderful world of living things and their habitats. If that doesn’t excite you then hop aboard the year 4, as we travel back thousands of years to a time when pharaohs ruled and pyramids were built in fascinating Ancient Egypt. These are just some of the many amazing topics we will study in year 4! 

Key information

PE

4B have PE on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.  Please make sure your child has the correct kit to take part (white top, black shorts or tracksuit bottoms and trainers.)

Book Bags

Children will take their book bags home on Friday's so they have chance to read over the weekend. Please return book bags to school between Monday and Wednesday so we are able to change everyone's books ready to send home again the following Friday. Parents - please make sure you are signing your child's home reading log so we can see when your child has read at home.

Reading  

We love reading at Kingsley and encourage all children to read for pleasure every night. Reading is a gateway into all areas of the curriculum. It supports the development of English and writing skills.

Reading Plus

Reading plus is a fantastic way to improve reading and comprehension skills. We use reading plus in school and encourage children to complete 3 lessons at home as well.

Times Tables

Times tables is an important part of Year 4’s maths curriculum. It is a statutory requirement that all children in Year 4 are fluent in their recall of their multiplications up to 12x12. We work hard to practise our times tables through playing games, listening to songs as well as completing weekly quizzes. It is vitally important that the children practise weekly so that they are prepared for the Multiplication Times Tables Check (Summer Term).

Please use the link below for an excellent example of Y4 expectation. https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/

Times Tables Rockstars

TTRS is a fantastic way to improve timetables fluency. You can compete with others, play in garage mode and check your fluency in soundcheck mode.

Please encourage your children to engage with this fantastic online learning resource. At least 5 sessions of sound check a week should be completed.

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

After School Clubs

We encourage children to take part in all our after school club activities as a way to relax but to also learn the importance of team work and providing a wide variety of new skills.  Please keep a note of the days and time of the club that your child attends.

What learning looks like in Year 4B Autumn 2

English

Year 4 will be exploring Leaf by Sandra Dieckmann.

Learning outcome: To write an Outsider Narrative & Information Report

 Children will be applying the following in their writing:

• Use a range of fronted adverbials
• Begin to use detail and descriptive sentences to keep the reader engaged
• Using various punctuations to enhance their writing
• Applying direct speech within their writing using the correct punctuation mark for this correctly.
• Editing their own.

SuperHero Spellings

In Year 4, Pupils will use the sequenced scheme SuperHero Spellings that naturally follows on from Monster Phonics to aid children in KS2 to secure spellings.  Each week pupils will be taught using the three core phases: Learn, Build, and Show.  Weekly spellings will be printed and sent home for you to further practise these.  

Maths

Year 4 will be looking at:

• Number
• Multiplication and division
• Fractions 
• Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
• Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number

Science

Our young scientists will be looking at the following:

Animals Including Humans

¨ Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans

¨ Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions

¨ Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey (animals in the arctic)

¨ Work scientifically by Year 4:

¨ Recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts, and tables

¨ Reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions

¨ Using results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions

¨ Identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes

¨ Using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings.

Topic (History)

In Year 4 we will be looking at the following:

Topic—Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots

¨ Use a timeline to place historical events in chronological order.

¨ Describe dates of and order significant events from the period studied.  

¨ Use evidence to describe the culture and leisure activities from the past.

¨ Use evidence to describe the clothes, way of life and actions of people in the past.

¨ Use documents, printed sources (e.g. archive materials) the Internet, databases, pictures, photographs, music, artefacts, historic buildings, virtual tours in  museums and galleries and visits to sites as evidence about the past.

PHSE:

Relationships—How do we treat each other with respect?

1. How people’s behaviour affects themselves and others, including online
2. How to model being polite and courteous in different situations and recognise the respectful behaviour they should receive in return
3. The rights that children have and why it is important to protect these

RE (Religious Education)

During this term children will learn about Christian beliefs with a focus on Christmas. They will develop an understanding about:

1. What Christians believe?
2. The Bible
3. Why the Bible so important to Christians
4. What Christians believe about the Bible
5. What Christians mean by ‘God’s plan’?

Reading

Children will be reading a wide range of books this term and we will be working on developing our comprehension skills, vocabulary, how to decode and answer questions using the evidence from the text along with fluency during our shared reading sessions.  

Curriculum

End of year expectations for Year 4

The National Curriculum outlines these expectations as being the minimum requirements your child must meet in order to ensure continued progress. All objectives will be worked on throughout the year and will be the focus of direct teaching. Any extra support you can provide in helping your children to achieve these is greatly valued.

Reading

· Read and spell phonically decodable two and three syllable words.

· Read automatically high frequency words.

· Relate reading to own experiences.

· Re-read if reading does not make sense.

· Re-tell with considerable accuracy.

· Discuss significance of title and events.

· Make predictions and inferences about what has been read.

· Read with pace and expression.

· Know differences between fiction and non-fiction.

Writing

· Write in clearly demarcated sentences.

· Use ‘and’ to join ideas.

· Use conjunctions to join sentences (e.g. so, but).

· Use capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks and capital letters for names and personal pronoun ‘I’.

· Clearly sequenced sentences.

· Correct formation of lower case and capital letters.

· Correct formation of digits.

Maths

· Count, read and write numbers to 100.

· Compare number using: equal to, more than, less than.

· Read and write numbers to 20 in words.

· Say 1 more/1 less than a number to 100.

· Count in 2s, 5s and 10s.

· Know number bonds to 10 and 20, e.g. 5 + 5 = and 15 + 5 =

· Add and subtract to 20.

· Solve simple multiplication and division with apparatus and arrays.

· Multiplications up to 12x12

· Division facts up to 12x table

· Recognise half/quarter of object, shape or quantity.

· Use language of day, week, month and year.

· Tell time to hour and half past.

Clubs 3.30pm-4.15pm

Please collect your child promptly at the end of each club time. 

Drumming Club - 

Dodgeball Club - Tuesday 

Year 4 Trips & Visitors

• The Blue Planet Aquarium 
• Martin Mere 
• Dentist Workshop (Making our own teeth moulds!)
• Spanish Dance Workshop