This week’s Learning at a glance
This week’s learning in Year 4 at a glance!
Year 4Learning Link: Awesome Anglo-Saxons |
We will be learning what happened after the Roman left Britain, how first the Anglo Saxons and then the Vikings came and settled in Britain. This will include some local History as Guildford was an Anglo Saxon settlement.
In Art, we studying The Scream by Edvard Munch and how the used colour and shape to show emotions. |
| Mr Gillan mrgillan@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk
Miss M Petley misspetley@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk Mr Jones mrjones@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk Mrs McNiff senco@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk |
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| Latest Curriculum Information Booklet: Spring Year 4 | |
Year Group reminders |
P.E. – Tuesday only for both classes
Tuesday: Please bring in your recorders Wednesday: Head teacher’s tables challenge Thursday: Spelling test Friday: Make sure your Fantasy story homework is complete. Don’t forget your violins and cellos |
RE |
Community L.Q – How does the parish community come together to celebrate. This lesson looks at the special celebrations that are held in church including baptisms, weddings and funerals. |
English |
Stories set in an imaginary world- Creating detailed descriptive writing about an imaginary creature. The children will also be creating a fantasy story based on the fantasy picture book – The Journey. |
SPAG |
Determiners – Articles and demonstrative – We will be considering why we use determiners for different purposes, such as articles (a, an and the) and demonstratives (this, those and that). |
Maths |
Multiplication and division – Division of 2 and 3-digit numbers
We are continuing to work on division of larger numbers using partitioning. This will include numbers that give a remainder. We will also be applying these skills to solve word problems. E.g.
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Science |
Science – Electricity – Why are some appliances powered by mains electricity and some by batteries? |
Art and DT |
Sketching faces. We will rediscovering how to sketch a face with a special focus on using different shaped eyes, eye brows, mouths etc to show emotion. |
Computing |
Continue Espresso Coding |
French |
Learning about birthdays – asking and answering the question: ‘Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire?’ |
Geography or History |
History – Awesome Anglo Saxons – L.Q. – Which towns in our area started as Anglo-Saxon settlements. We will be learning how to identify Anglo-Saxon settlement by their names with a special focus on Guildford. |
Music |
Revising good posture and breath control using these sounds Ta, Ti-ti, tika tika. Rest position and play position – left hand on top. Finding our first notes – so and mi. Singing songs with so and mi, signing the pitch and rhythm with hand signs for so and mi, playing it on the recorder. Songs: Mary Ann, Queen Queen Caroline, See Saw. |
PE |
Small sided games to embed communication skills for attack and defence. |
PSHE |
Safety in numbers – These focusses on bullying and the role of people who witness bullying. What can they do to help? |
Homework |
Tuesday: Times Tables – TTRockstars.
Thursday: New Spellings Friday: Friday: Art – Looking at some of the other pieces of Art created by Munch and giving an opinion. |
