Year 4 2024 - 2025
Mrs Sampson
Mrs Walker
Welcome to Year 4
Mrs Walker, Mrs Sampson and Mrs Scott
Welcome Back!
Welcome to our class page.
Take a look at this page to find out what we will be learning about this term. You will find lots of links and information that you can use to help you with some of the homework tasks, and links to websites where some tasks will be set. I will keep the page updated with tasks, events and news throughout the term, so please check it regularly.
If you have any questions or concerns throughout the term, please contact me at year4@vinetree.org.uk and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Our Learning Challenge this half term is:
How did Britain change between the end of the Iorn Age and the end of The Roman Age?
Our Learning Challenge will be broken up into weekly learning questions:
1. What did the Romans find when they first arrived in Britain?
2. What evidence is there that the Romans came to Britain at all?
3. What do we mean by 'Romanisation' of Britain?
4. What did the Romans do to improve Britain?
5. Why did the Romans leave Britan?
Below is the Knowledge Organiser for the topic:
This will then link to our English, our text is:
The Man who walked between the Towers
This is a wonderful story based on the true events of Philippe Petit who in 1974 walked on a wire across the Twin Towers.
We will be looking into the evnts that led up to the walk and will learn a whole new set of powerful vocabulary to use in our next Big Write, based on a setting description.
Below is the video we watched in class showing some actual pictures of the walk:
There is also an animation made of the book:
We will also be focusing on our Whole Class Reading texts to link with various fiction, non fiction and poetry texts.
This half term we will be focusing on Addition and Subtraction. We will be using a number of strategies to help us to add and subtract up to 4 digit numbers.I have attached the link to BBC Bitesize to help with column addition and subtraction at home.
In Year 4, the children will have a multiplication check in the summer term - there is some parent information further down in the file section on this page.Please continue to practice Time Tables at home on a regular basis. The children have access to TTRockstars which we use dueing some sessions in school, login details are in their homework books.
Here are some of our favourite class songs:
Electricity!This half term we are looking closely at Electricity.
Our Learning Challenge Questions are:
1. How does Electricity work?
2. How can we construct a simpleseries electrical circuit?
3. What is renewable energy and is it better than fossil fuels?
4. How important is electricity at home?
5. What are conductors and what are insulators?
Our Knowledge Organiser is below:
In Science, we will be looking at properties of materials. grouping materials into solids, liquids and gases.
We have changed our homework this year and have decided to send homework books home.
The activities will be based on Multiplications, spellings and some topic maths.
Homework will be sent home on Mondays and returned to school on Fridays.
Reading - please read three times per week with your child and write a comment in their book to show they have read at home.
Books will be changed every Friday.