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This week's Learning in Year 4 at a glance!

Year 4

Learning Link:

All Roads Lead to Rome

We hope the children will enjoy their trip back in time when we learn about the Romans and their country of origin. We will be learning about the location of Italy within Europe, its main regions and cities and making comparisons to Britain. Through these comparisons, we will be able to understand why the Romans invaded Britain and the lasting impact of this today. Alongside the History and Geography, we will also be studying stories with a historic setting including ‘Escape from Pompeii,’ and “Across the Roman Wall.”

In Art, we look at Roman murals, statutes and mosaics and the development of Italy as a centre of artistic excellence, and a source of historical evidence.  As part of our learning in D&T, we will be baking Roman style bread and taking inspiration from this to design our own signature loaf!

St Gemma:

Mrs Grove: mrsgrove@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Mr Jones: mrjones@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

St Wilfred:

Mr Burnip: mrburnip@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Autumn Curriculum Newsletter
 

Year Group reminders

Week Commencing: 20th October 2025

Week B

Monday: 4G Baking - 4G please bring ingredients in today. Homework due in. PE for both classes. Face to face Parent Consultation Evening.

Tuesday: PE for both classes

Wednesday: 4W Baking - 4W please bring ingredients in today.

Thursday:

Friday: Spelling homework due in. Flu immunisations. Non-uniform day - raising the postage funds for the shoeboxes. Please make a donation on Scopay.

Have a wonderful half term!

Looking further ahead:

Wednesday 19th November - Trip to Fishbourne Roman Palace. We will need some parent volunteers. Please email Mrs Grove or Mr Burnip if you are able to come.

Reminders:

PE for Year 4 will be every Tuesday and on a Monday in WEEK B.

Please ensure your child has a named glue stick. A Pritt Stick costs £1 and can be bought from your child’s class teacher.

We will be spot checking children’s uniforms, please make sure they are named as well as water bottles and snack boxes.

Reading for Pleasure

Reading - please read for up to 20 minutes each day and record in the reading record. There are questions in your child’s homework diary to support their comprehension further. Please record the questions you have asked in your child’s reading record, e.g 4a, 6c, 8b.

CGP Homework books:

This will be set each Monday and marked the following Monday.

Please complete Workout 7 in the Maths and English books due on Monday 3rd November.

Spellings:

These will be set on a Friday and due in on the following Friday.

Homework

4G: Delta and the Lost City

4W: Harry Potter

RE

CREATION AND COVENANT

We will be watching a stage version (online) of the Story of Joseph as an ending to our current branch and as a precursor for our next branch, Prophecy and Promise.

English

WRITING

We will be writing poetry linked to our learning about volcanoes.

Master Readers: Across the Roman Wall

Monday:Whole class reading of text

Tuesday: Book Club

Wednesday: Modelled comprehension

Thursday: Independent comprehension

Friday: Review and vocabulary focus

Focus vocabulary this week: urn, impatience, ducked, furious, insolent, beckoned

SPAG

Spelling

Purple group with Mr Burnip and Mr Jones: To spell words with the prefix ‘inter’

Red group with Mrs Farage: To spell words with the ‘ch’ sound ending -ture

Blue group with Mrs Inman: To spell words where ‘gn’ and kn’ make a n sound at the beginning of words

Yellow group with Mrs Grove: To spell words adding ‘s’ or ‘es’ to make plurals

Grammar

verse, line, rhyme

Maths

PLACE VALUE

This week, we are learning how to subtract 4-digit numbers using our understanding of place value and written methods. We will begin by subtracting without exchanging, then move on to calculations that require exchanging between columns. We will also learn to check our answers using addition and apply our skills to solve subtraction problems in real-life contexts.

Science

MOVING AND GROWING

This week, we are learning how diet, exercise and lifestyle choices help to keep our bones and muscles healthy. We will explore the importance of eating the right foods, staying active and making good choices for our bodies. We will use what we learn to create an informative poster showing how to keep our bones and muscles strong and healthy.

Art

BREAD BAKING

4G baking - Monday 20th October (morning only)

4W baking - Wednesday 22nd October (morning only)

As well as baking our delicious bread, we will be designing packaging labels for the children to bring the bread home in.

Computing

COMPUTING NETWORKS/ONLINE SAFETY

We will learn that not everything on the Internet is true and what fake news is and look at how google searches are ranked.

Geography

ITALY

This week, we are learning about famous Italian explorers and the impact they had on the world. We will discover who they were, where they travelled, and what they achieved. We will also explore how their journeys helped shape trade, discovery and our understanding of the world today.

French

We will understand descriptions of monsters in French.

Music

Listen and appraise music. Perform compositions.

What do you think about this music? How can you describe it using musical vocabulary? Rediscover your composition and practice it. Can you perform your composition? How can we be a good audience?

PE

Hockey

Control the ball when receiving. Move with the ball. Begin to tackle effectively.

Dodgeball

Learning the rules of the game and beginning to use them to play honestly and fairly. Communicate with my teammates to apply simple tactics. Throw with some accuracy at a target.  Return to the ready position to defend myself.

Basketball

Dribble the ball accurately. Shoot from D zone. Pass to team members after creating space.

Learning for Life

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

We will look at some significant people from the past who have had a huge impact on our lives today and recognise how diversity is overcome.