Year 4

Year 4

PE: Monday & Thursday

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Welcome to Year 4 at Churchtown Primary School. In Year 4, we continue to build on our skills of independence and explore our learning through a broad and balanced curriculum. We aim to foster a love of learning through a range of practical and exciting activities which encourages the children to be reflective learners and responsible citizens.

Our exciting topics begin with ‘Pictures in Time’ in the Autumn term where we explore the early civilization periods from the Stone Age to the Iron Age before moving on to learn about life in Ancient Egypt. Our Spring topic ‘Going, Going, Gone’ focuses on the Rainforests of the world and the effects of deforestation. The start of the summer term kicks off with a step back in time to Liverpool for our topic ‘Imagine’ and we end the year developing the skills of our budding scientists and inventors in ‘Bright Sparks’.

We will also have further opportunities to take part in swimming, put on our dancing shoes for our performance based on the story of The Beatles and visit The Beatles Story during our ‘Imagine’ topic.

Year 4 Curriculum

Below is the curriculum for Year 4. This has been broken down by subjects and then by half-terms:

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School Clubs 

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Parent Information Afternoon 

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Home tasks

Homework

In Year 4, we believe that our homework should be enjoyable and engaging. To this end, we will set work that will consolidate recent learning in class and at times, be creative too. Where possible, we hope that you can support your child in completing their weekly tasks and support them with sharing their knowledge with you.

Our weekly homework offer in Year 4 includes:

1.    A reading comprehension or a maths task each week to consolidate learning (this will alternate each week)
2.    Reading- please continue to aim to read with your child at least 3 times a week.
3.    Maths - We would also like your child to continue to practise their times tables at home – Times Tables Rockstars (https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth) is a useful resource to use to help support with pupils practising this at home. Their login details are in the font of their reading diaries and this should be accessible for all children.
4. Spellings- To support with our reading and writing work in school, we will now start to send home each week a spelling rule and linked words so you are aware of what is being covered as part of our work in school. This rule will be taught and practised throughout the following week in school and we wanted to send this home so, where possible, children can practise this at home. Children will have the chance to learn, practise and apply this rule in class through a range of activities and quizzes as part of our RWI spelling programme.

 
We teach the children to take pride and responsibility for their own work and we strive to develop their independence, therefore we expect each homework task to be completed with care and to the best of their ability. Homework should take no longer than approximately 30 minutes per week to complete.

Feedback for homework will primarily be given either verbally or through self/peer marking during whole-class feedback where appropriate. Teaching staff will ensure any misconceptions are addressed during feedback given to support progress and understanding.

Thank you so much for your continued support!

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Other Learning Opportunities at home

• Family projects
• Play board games and card games 
• Discussion and debate around topical issues and news items 

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Practical Maths Activities 

• Money - counting, going shopping and calculating the change, currency conversion 
• Cooking - measuring and weighing, calculating cooking times, calculating total weight, using sales accurately 
• Telling the time - 5 minute and 1 minute accuracy 
• Using timetables for travel 
• Calculating time intervals between TV programmes, bus journey's and car journeys 
• Other opportunities for real life maths and applying their number and computation skills for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division