Welcome

To the Year 4 Curriculum Evening.

The Year 4 Team

• 4P St Peter: Miss Petley, Mrs Eckhardt, Mrs Riley and Mrs Peace

• 4H St Henry; Mrs Hills and Mrs Desanges.

• Mrs Monahan will be working in both classes

Our mission statement:

God’s love is at the heart of our Catholic Community. We show this in our respect,

kindness and love for others and by treating other people as we wish to be treated ourselves. We will encourage everyone in our school family to do the best they can.

Golden Rules• We treat others as we would like to be

treated.• We make everyone feel welcome.• We are the best we can be.• We always have a smile on our faces.• We share our talents.• We listen carefully to each other.• We say no to bullying.

1. We treat others as we would like to be treated

2. We make everyone feel welcome

3. We respect everyone is unique

4. We say no to bullying

5. We are the best we can be and enjoy our learning

6. We make the right choices to be good role models

7. We know how to stay safe and healthy

8. We respect the school and other people’s property

9. We listen carefully to everyone

10.We are polite and honest.

• Growth mind set

• Super learner

• Learning charter

Religious EducationCome and SeeThis year we will cover the following

topics:• People, Called, Gift• Community, Giving and receiving,

Self discipline• New life, Building bridges, God’s

people• We also do a short study of Judaism

and Islam.

The Year 4 Curriculum

Autumn Term - All roads lead to Rome

HistoryRomans

DTBread making and

nutrition

ArtMurals and mosaics

ScienceBones and Muscles

Sound

EnglishHistorical FictionInformation texts

The year 4 Curriculum

Spring Term – Scary Scandinavians

HistoryVikings

DTlamps

ArtPeople and

emotions including Edvard Munch

ScienceElectricity

GeographyScandinavia

The Year 4 Curriculum

SummerTerm – Amazing Amazon

GeographyThe Amazon river

and rainforest

DTSewing

ArtExploring different

techniques

ScienceHabitats and states

of matter.

EnglishStories from

other cultures and persuasive

writing

The mathematics curriculum is based around the following aims:

•Fluency: To become fluent in mathematics. (Frequent practise leads to the ability to recall and to apply known facts to solve increasingly complex problems.)

•Reasoning: To be able to reason mathematically. (To investigate a mathematical idea or operation so they can make general statement or prove an idea using mathematical language.)

•Problem solving: To be able to solve problems. (To apply their mathematics to every day and more complex problems and with increasing sophistication.)

The new curriculum emphasises the importance of language. The children are expected to develop their mathematical vocabulary to explain their work and justify an argument.

Addition

Why isn’t it taught the way I did it at school?

348

+ 5

348 350 353

Subtraction

How would you calculate this?

What is the difference between 203 and 196?

2 0 3-1 9 6

Multiplication

The grid method

One digit x two digits

Two digits x two digits

2 03 X 4

80 = 9212

1 0

32 0

8 0= 2 3 0

4

3 02 0 012 = 92

= 3 2 2

English

• SPAG

• Reading

• Writing

Spelling

Alternate Weeks:Spelling pattern from Jolly Grammar

(list of words) with a spelling to reinforce these words

3 part grid – spelling rule, topic words and spelling log words with a

grammar task.

Week 1,3,5 etc Week 2,4,6 etc

PE

• For both classes: Monday and Wednesday

• Please ensure their named kit is always in school on these days.

• Summer term- swimming at the Spectrum on a Tuesday.

FrenchContinued this year with

Monsieur Marchiafava

from the RGS on

Wednesday afternoon.

The learning platform• Please encourage your child to visit

regularly.• New parents can attend an ‘On Line

Safety’ meeting with Mrs Grove to sign an agreement and then your child can be issued with a user name and a password.

https://surreymle.org

Strings The children will receive a half an hour

lesson every Friday morning with Mr Chambers.

They are taught in half- class groups. Please remind your child to bring their

instruments in every Friday.Please encourage your children to practise at

home and treat their instruments with respect.

Homework Timetable

Monday Maths either Mathletics or practising basic skills e.g. tables

Tuesday New spellings given- Jolly Grammar book every other week.

Wednesday Only reading and spelling practice

Thursday Topic research as required.

Friday Only reading and spelling practice

Children should read for 10-20 mins and practise their spellings every day.

Homework continued

• Time will be allocated at the end of the day for the child to record their homework in their homework diary. If instructions are complicated a sheet will also be sent.

• Children are expected to put their own homework in a homework tray where it will be monitored by staff.

How can you help…..• Encourage your child to read regularly and to

choose from a range of books and authors.

• Please monitor your child’s reading through their reading record book and do listen to them read as necessary.

• Ask different questions from the fiction and non-fiction sheets in their Reading Record Books and record the question numbers in this book.

How can you help…..• Regular practice of multiplication tables and

their related division facts will greatly aid your child in many aspects of Mathematics.

• Please do check homework diaries daily for homework and messages and sign them once a week

• Send in empty Pringles tubes and ‘Ready meal’ tubs for DT please and tissues.

How can you help…..• We would welcome parents to stay on after

dropping their child off to hear reading for a few minutes in the morning.

• We will also be asking for parent helpers for school trips, helping with baking and sewing.

We would ask anyone who works with a child or group of children outside the classroom to be DBS checked.

Dates for your diary

• Chertsey Museum trip-

4P Tuesday 13th October

4H Wednesday 14th October

• Year 3and 4 concert Wednesday 9th December (afternoon) and Thursday 10th (evening)

• Roman day (in school) Thursday 17th December.