Ferney Lee Primary School

Welcome to Year 4!

What are Year 4 learning about in Autumn 2?

This half term, 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 life was like in the Roman Empire and what it was like to be a Roman soldier.

In English, we will complete a 'Roman Gods' non-chronological report writing unit followed by a 'Beowulf' letter writing unit.

Our class reading books are 'Romans on the Rampage' by Jeremy Strong and 'Empire's End: A Roman Story' by Leila Rasheed.

In Maths, we will complete our addition and subtraction unit where we will use different skills and strategies to add and subtract within 4 digit numbers before moving onto our Multiplication and Division unit.

In Science, we will complete our 'States of Matter' unit before beginning our topic on 'Animals including humans'. In this topic, we will answer the enquiry question, 'What happens in our digestive systems?'

In Design and Technology, we will design, make and build different structures before making our own pavilions.

In PE, we will continue to learn new skills in the swimming pool every Wednesday and will learn new gymnastic skills every Friday.

In Music, we will learn how to rock and roll! We will learn the origin and features of rock and roll music before then performing a piece as a class.

In PSHE/RHE, we will explore similarities and differences by answering the enquiry question, 'Why is identity and diversity so important?'

In RE, we are beginning a unit which explores the question, 'What faiths are shared in our country?' We will learn about different places of worship in the local and wider community and their significance to believers.

In French, we will learn how to say and write about clothing, and put them into sentences to show our likes and dislikes.

In Computing, we will finish our unit on online safety before starting our unit on Scratch.

Our Learning 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.

For our class text, we read, 'The Boy who Biked the World, Part One: On the Road to Africa' by Alastair Humphreys.

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 began to explore, '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 Thursday.

In Music, we used a mixture of body percussion and tuned percussion instruments to create own rhythms of the rainforest.

In PSHE/RHE, we answered the question, 'How can we make and maintain a good friendship?'

In RE, we completed our unit called, 'How are important events remembered?' where we explored festivals of light from Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism, Paganism, Chinese New Year and Ancient Civilisations.

In French, we learnt adjectives for describing people’s physical appearance and their personality. We then created simple sentences ensuring that the adjectives agree with the gender of the noun.

In Computing, we explored how to stay safe online.