Delce Academy
Year 4
Curriculum Newsletter
Respect Kindness Honesty Perseverance Collaboration Responsibility
Summer 1: "Identity and Diversity"
In English, we will be...
Researching the topic identity and diversity
Understanding different disabilities and the stories behind them
Understanding what a balanced and unbalanced argument is
Recognising the structural and language features of a argument
Exploring a range of balanced arguments.
Building evidence to support our arguments.
In History, we will be...
Understanding how the Roman Empire began and its it timeline
Identifying how the Empire was managed
Recognising how the Empire developed across the continent
Understanding the impact the Roman Empire had on Britain
Exploring how the Roman Empire declined.
In Maths, we will be...
Exploring decimals through comparing the tenths and hundredths.
Identifying change within money and relate this to everyday life.
Exploring time by identifying the vocabulary that links to both analogue and digital clocks.
In Science this term, we will be...
Understanding how sound is made
Comparing sources of sound and how they differ
Observing how vibrations from sound travel
Explaining the relationship between the pitch of sound and the source
Creating a hypothesis and understand a fair test
Investigating how different materials affect volume
In Art, we will be:
Creating a mood board on the works of Sandra Silberzweig
Experimenting with the colours and tones of portraits, using paint and watercolours
Blending colours to create the correct tones to recreate a cubist self portrait
Creating a palette of colours to collage together in a cubist painting
In French, we will be...
Describing things in the classroom
Discussing what is in our pencil case and using adjectives to describe them
In Reading, we will be looking at the text:
Romans on the Rampage
We will be using the following reading skills:
Retrieval
Inferencing
Evaluating
Making Connections
Sequencing
Predicting
Summarising
In RE, we will be...
Identifying the Judaism values
Exploring the place of Jewish worship
Recognising values within their holy book
In R.H.E, we will be...
Identifying how stereotypes can affect individuals
Understanding how to recognised of mental healthy issues and how to care for it
Exploring ways to keep our body and mind healthy
Discussing how our body changes
Home Learning
At Delce Academy we encourage our children to:
Read every evening and record this in their reading record
Learn their spellings for the week
Practice their Times Tables daily using TTRS or the worksheet provided
There will also be 6 home learning activities set for the term. These activity ideas are optional but we advise your encouragement as it will further support your child in continuing their love of learning outside of the classroom. Your child can complete as many of the activities as they would like and bring their work in to share with their class.
Timetable Rockstars and Number Bots
This is available for the children to play on to practise their timetables and number bots using Number bots
P.E:
Children will change at school so please ensure children have an appropriate sports kit for the weather. PE days for individual classes will be sent home via Arbor.