Hop in the time machine as we zoom back in time to the Roman Empire. Year 4 will be writing stories with an historical setting. Our class text will be the dramatic ‘Dolphins of Laurenthun’ by Caroline Lawrence.

Join us on our march with the Roman army. Our spelling focus will be words including the graphemes ‘ei’, ‘eigh’ and ‘ey’. We will also be focusing on the rules about how to use semicolons and colons.

Would you rather have 2 quarters of a chocolate cake or half? This term, we will be exploring fractions of amounts and equivalent fractions. Can we work out fractions of amounts in word problems using RUCSAC?
We will also be looking at converting fractions and integers into decimals? Can you divide 5 by 10. Let’s see what hap- pens when we try to break this number into smaller parts…

In coordinates, which is the x and y axis (3, 6) ? We will learn how to plot shapes using coordinates and learn how to describe their positions.

What’s the matter?

Year 4 will be comparing and grouping materials together depending on whether they are solids, liquids or gases. Have you ever wondered why you have to eat your ice-cream in a rush?

Why does water ’disappear’ when you leave it in a bowl on the radiator? We will be investigating the different states of matter and recording our observations.

Come and join Year 4 on our Kodu coin quest! The children will be designing, writing and debugging programs that accomplish specific roles, including controlling or simulating physical systems.

Dexter, sinister, claudio!

Year Four will delve into the depths of history to find out how the Romans impacted life in Britannia. What was it like to be a Roman slave? Year 4 will be discovering life across the class system.

4CV and 4LE will continue to learn chords on the ukulele.

We will be hitting the high notes and ‘getting low’ with scales and pitch. They will be using the full range of their voices.

Year 4 will be developing their observing and sketching skills by drawing artefacts at the Gurdwara.

What do you know about the 5 K’s?

Year Four will go to visit the Gurdwara. We will discuss the things that are the same and different for religious people.

Are you being fair? Year 4 will learn about how large the Roman Empire became. We will think about fair trade in the modern day and debate its impact on different groups of people globally.

4AR will be consolidating their swimming skills and taking their badge tests. Year 4 will be learning the Haka dance and developing their skills in cricket!

Shop till you drop! Year Four will be learning some of the key vocabulary and phrases you need when shopping and ordering food in France.