Mathematics

 

• Use known number facts and place value to help with mental addition and subtraction

   

• Use decimals to two decimal places for money and measures

   

• Find fractions of shapes and numbers of objects

   

• Recognise pairs of fractions that equal 1.  Interpret and order mixed numbers

   

• Solve mathematical puzzles and word problems

   

• Investigate the properties of common 2-D shapes, including symmetry or regular and irregular polygons

   

• Handling Data – collect data and organise in a table

   

Literacy

 

• Poetry – Creating images, similes, figurative and expressive language.  Using actions and sound effects to enhance a poem’s meaning.

   

• Narrative – Historical stories.  Use of setting and characterisation.  Review structure and features of stories.

   

• Comprehension skills.

   

• Grammar rules.

   

• All Aboard Reading skills.

   

 

 

Class 4 – continuing with Writing Project

 

Science

·         Circuits and Conductors: simple circuits, making switches, lighting a bulb and drawing simple circuits with the correct symbols

 

 

·         Keeping Warm: temperature, insulation

 

Geography

·         Village settlement – in relation to Ufton Court, Map Reading , grids and symbols.

 

·         Contrasting Location - France

 

·         Newsboard – looking at News stories around the world.

 

Geography Project – In the News

 

 

 

History

 

 

• Tudors:

   

• Henry VIII, his lifestyle and wives

   

• Changes to religion in Tudor times

   

• Court Life and Town Life.  Comparisons of rich and poor.

   

• Buildings, lifestyles, clothes, education, entertainment

 

Ufton Court Visit – Class 3 - 16^th to 18^th March 2009

 

                    -Class 4 – 18^th to 20^th March 2009

 

Religious Education

·         Role Models – Inspirational People – Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Francis of Assisi , Joan of Arc, Helen Keller

 

Physical Education

·         Games -  Invasion Skills - Netball and Basketball, Tag Rugby

 

·         PE – Dance -  Formal Dances

 

 Gymnastics -  Floor and apparatus work involving rocking 

 

                    and rolling movements, weight transference and balance.

 

                    Circuit Training – to increase children’s fitness levels

 

 

School PE kit should be available on all days of the week.  They need to be brought in on Monday and taken home to be washed on Friday.

 

Music

·         Composing accompaniments using tuned percussion.

 

·         Phrasing and expression in music.

 

·         Singing in parts and accompanied singing.

 

Information Technology

  

•   Data bases and work linked with the currculum

   

• Finding things out - Research using electronic texts and the internet

   

• Oaklands World of Learning – creating Tudor Wikis

   

 

PSHE

 

·         Ufton Court Issues  caring, friendships, working together

 

·         ‘Going for Goals’.

 

·         ‘Good to be me’.

 

·         Discuss issues, which affect children, responsibilities and sharing options

 

 

French

 

• Revision of previous vocabulary

   

• Sentence building, word order, negatives, questions, use of plural, adjective agreement

   

• Songs, games and stories

   

 

Homework

 

·         Numeracy – Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday. Weekly times tables test.

 

·         Literacy – Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday.

 

·         Spelling words to be written in sentences weekly, tested Fridays.

 

·         On occasions a piece of work will be set from another subject.

 

·         Daily reading – (Mon – Fri) minimum 10 mins. To be recorded in Homework Diary.

 

·         Geography Project – In the News – due in Friday 27^th March 2009

 

 

Please check your child’s homework diary regularly and sign it at the end of each week. 

 

Year 4 Staff:

 

Mrs Simpkins                                        Mr Hutton

 

Ms Moores                                            Mrs McClaren

 

Mrs Yeatman                                         Mrs Hanks

 

Mrs Smith                                             Mrs Draffin

 

Mrs Walker