Welcome to Year 4!
What are Year 4 learning about in Autumn 2?
In Autumn 2, our Historical enquiry question is:
Why were the Romans such a successful ruling empire?'
In our History lessons we will learn how Rome was founded, what the hierarchy was like in Rome, the different ways Rome was ruled, what life was like in the Roman Empire and what it was like to be a Roman soldier.
In English, we will be writing non-chronological reports and diary entries. Our class text will be 'Romans on the Rampage' by Jeremy Strong.
In Maths, we will complete our unit on addition and subtraction by using different skills and strategies to add and subtract within 4 digit numbers. We will then complete a short unit on finding the perimeter before we start the first of our multiplication and subtraction units.
In Science, our topic is 'Animals including humans' and we will be answering the enquiry question, 'What happens in our digestive systems?' .
In PE, we will continue to be confident swimmers every Wednesday and learn new team game skills every Friday.
In Design and Technology, we will be designing, making and building our own Roman Chariots.
In Music, we will draw upon our understanding of repeating patterns in music, before being introduced to the concept of motifs. We will learn a musical motif based on the Romans and perform it.
In PSHE/RHE, we will be exploring similarities and differences and will answer the enquiry question, 'Why is identity and diversity so important?'
In French, we will learn vocabulary to describe items of clothing, along with the different forms of the indefinite article. We will incorporate previous learning about colour into our descriptions of clothing and express our opinions about outfits in French.
What did we learn in Autumn 1?
In our first half term, our Geographical enquiry question was:
'How would living in Italy compare with living in England?'
In our Geography lessons, we compared the climate, crops, physical geography, settlements, landmarks and capital cities of England and Italy.
In English, we completed a Place Value of Punctuation and Grammar unit concentrating on different nouns, verbs and clauses to create accurate sentence structure.
In Maths, we learnt about the Place Value of numbers up to 10,000, which includes rounding, ordering, comparing and representing numbers in different ways and began our Addition and Subtraction Unit.
In Science, we explored, 'States of Matter' by answering the enquiry question, 'Can a material change from being a solid, a liquid or a gas?'
In Art, we completed a 'Monochrome' unit where we learnt how artists create perspective, how they use line, shape, and value to create a sense of form, and about different shading techniques.
In PE, we began weekly swimming lessons on a Wednesday and learnt how to play as part of a team during Tag Rugby lessons every Friday.
In Music, we used a mixture of body percussion and tuned percussion instruments to create our own rhythms of the rainforest.
In PSHE/RHE, we explored the question, 'How can we make and maintain a good friendship?'
In RE, we completed a unit called, 'How do ancient stories influence modern celebrations?' We then explored the religions Christianity, Hindu and Paganism.
In French, we learnt adjectives for describing people’s physical appearance and their personality. We then created simple sentences ensuring that the adjectives agreed with the gender of the noun.
In Computing, we learnt how to stay safe online as well as building basic computer skills using a touchtyping programme.
Keep checking our individual Learning Journeys on Seesaw for photos of us enjoying our learning!
Meet the staff...
Miss Blanchard (Class Teacher)
Miss Bury (HLTA)
Mrs Adams (Support Assistant)
Welcome to our Library...
Below are the some of texts and literature we will be using in Year 4 to support the delivery of our curriculum.
Below are the some of texts and literature we will be using in Year 4 to support the delivery of our PSHE and RHE curriculum.
Throughout the year, we add the books we read as a class to our beautiful Class Reading tree on the wall outside our classroom.
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