Year 4

Welcome back! We trust that you and your children had a fantastic easter break and are now rejuvenated and eager to continue their exciting year at Woodhill. We are thrilled to present the Year 4 curriculum newsletter for the first half of the summer term, where you can explore the incredible learning opportunities that await your children during this upcoming period. You will also see the words that will be used for the spelling assessments this half term.

English

This half term, we will be exploring the theme of equity through the text the Divers Daughter. This text is set in the Tudor times, and has been a great start to our historical enquiry on the Tudor peroid. We will be writing lots about Tudor events, such as the Mary Rose Voyage which is a great stimulus for some descriptive writing, leading to a newspaper arcticle.

Maths

In Maths, we are focusing on our times tables at the moment, ahead of the times tables check in June. Here, the children need to take a rapid fire quiz on a computer to test their times tables recall. We are also exploring telling the time using digial and analogue, including solving every day problems using time. This is alongside our usual work on arithmatic, and solving calculations on the four opertaions addition, subtraction, multilplication and division.

Science

In Science this half term, our topic is ‘living things' which the children have been really enjoying so far. We will study how animals have evolved to live in their surroundings, and also food chains. We will use scienctific skills of classfication and evaluation.

History

In history we will be studying Tudor life, comparing which to our modern life today. Thi may also include a trip to Greenwich, home of Henry V111 and Queen Elizabeth. We will study the family tree and share lost stories of black tudors of the time.

Computing

In Computing, year 4 will be looking into how network devices make up the internet. They will learn this through outlining how websites can be shared via the World Wide Web (WWW), describing how content can be added and accessed on the World Wide Web & evaluating the consequences of unreliable content

RE

The RE focus will be Judaism. We will be exploring a new faith, including the symbols, places of worship, and traditional tales.

PE

This year, PE will be split into two sessions per week to keep in line with the DfE guidance of 90 minutes of PE per week. Year 4 will have an indoor session focusing on the skills within dance and an outdoor session of striking and fielding within cricket.

Art

We will be studying the political graffiti art of Jean Michel - Basquait. We will explore shape and colour and process, before creating some grafitti of our own.

Music

This half term the children will be looking at the song Mamma Mia and practising the song.

French

In French, we will be learning to recall family members and to select and apply appropriate adjectives.

RHE

Within RHE, we will be exporing the benfits and risks of sharing information as well as understanding that change is part of growing up.

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