Year Four
Welcome to Koala Class!
Our teacher is Mr Gosling s.gosling@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk. Our teaching assistant is Mr Lovering.
Welcome to Kangaroo Class!
Our teachers are Mrs Hobbs c.hobbs@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk and Mrs Perry a.perry@kings-hill.kent.sch.uk. Our teaching assistants are Mrs Spooner and Mrs Hodgson.
Please click here for the Year 4 'Meet the Teacher' presentation
Autumn Term 2024
Welcome to Year 4. We hope you had a lovely break and we are looking forward to a hard-working and fun term with you all.
Below is an outline of the learning that will take place this term.
English Key Text: Journey
Reading
- To read with fluency a range of appropriate text types.
- To determine the meaning of new words by applying prior knowledge and context.
- To listen to, discuss, express views and draw inference from a range of texts.
Writing
- To write a newspaper article.
- To organise writing into sections or paragraphs.
- To use a range of presentational devices.
- To vary sentence openers and use fronted adverbials appropriately.
- To demarcate sentences accurately.
Spelling, punctuation and grammar
- To add suffixes and prefixes to root words.
- To write a range of sentence types.
- To use a growing number of connectives.
Mathematics:
- Represent numbers to 1,000.
- Round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000.
- Count in 25s and 1,000s
- Partition 4 digit numbers into 1,000s, 100s, 10s and 1s.
- Find 1, 10, 100 and 1000 more or less than a given number.
- Compare and order numbers.
- Recognise negative numbers.
- Recognise Roman Numerals to 100.
- Add and subtract 3-digit and 4-digit numbers.
- Estimate and check answers using appropriate strategies.
Science:
- Know that animals can be grouped based on their physical characteristics
- Know that a species is a group of living things have many similarities that can reproduce together to produce offspring
- Know that a classification key uses questions to sort and identify different living things
- Know how to create a classification key to sort plants on the school premises
- Know that changes to the environment can make it more difficult for animals to survive.
- Know that human activity – such as climate change caused by pollution - can change the environment for many living things, endangering their existence
Geography:
- Name and locate the longest rivers in the UK and in the world
- Describe the similarities and differences between a river in the UK and in the wider world.
- Identify the parts of a river and understand how land use is different along the river’s course; (source, meander, mouth) and areas around (flood plains)
- Describe the process of the water cycle excluding transpiration.
- Look at maps and identify physical and human features.
Music:
- Improvise with the voice on the notes of the pentatonic scale D-E-G-A-B (and B flat if you have one).
- Sing in a Gospel style with expression and dynamics.
- Sing Part 1 of a partner song rhythmically.
- Play a bass part and rhythm ostinato along with This little light of mine.
- Listen and move in time to songs in a Gospel style.
Art:
- Know who Andy Goldsworthy and William Morris are. Recognise their work and their importance.
- Analyse and interpret natural and manmade forms of construction
- Use research and knowledge on different artist styles to experiment in their own work
- Use recycled, natural and man‐made materials to create sculptures
- Gain more confidence in carving as a form of 3D art.
- Demonstrate awareness in environmental sculpture
- Create a balanced composition inspired by the work of other artists.
- Sculpt clay and use patterns to decorate
- Use paint to add colour to clay
Computing:
- Know that anything I share online can be seen by others.
- Identify key words to use when searching safely on the World Wide Web.
- Think about the reliability of information I read on the World Wide Web.
- Explain whether a resource I am using is on the Internet, the school network or my own device.
- Explain how to check who owns photos, text and clip art.
PSHE/RSE:
- Know my attitudes and actions make a difference class.
- Understand who is in my class community, the role they play and how I fit in.
- Understand how democracy works at school.
- Understand that my actions affect myself and others and care about other people’s feelings.
- Understand how groups come together to make decisions.
- Understand how democracy and having a voice benefits the school community.
French:
- Vocabulary: Pets, ages and names. Wild animals and adjectives.
- Grammar: HFW est, adjective agreements, comparatives
- Phonics: oi/ch/ou/ien/in/ille homonyms est/et, terminal sounds.
- Culture: Easter traditions
RE:
- What is Buddhism?
- Who was Prince Siddhartha Gautama?
- How did the Buddha achieve enlightenment?
- What does a Buddhist believe?
- Where does a Buddhist worship?
PE:
- Develop and improve dribbling skills.
- Improve ability to receive a pass.
- Develop our ability to pass more accurately.
- Develop our ability to pass over a greater distance.
- Develop and trapping skills.
- Use taught skills effectively under pressure.
Year 4 have PE on Mondays and Wednesdays. Please ensure children come in dressed in their PE kits with no earrings in on those days.
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Click here to see the reading, writing and maths expectations for Year 4
As well as accessing our broad curriculum, our pupil offer outlines the additional opportunities your child will have whilst in Year 4
Curriculum Maps
Class Timetable
Homework in Year 4
Daily Reading
We encourage all children to read at home daily and a note to be written in their reading journal. If the school book has been completed then please read and share any other books/comics you have at home. These can also be recorded in the reading journal and can count towards the number of daily reads.
Spellings
Spelling will be sent home on a Friday and will tested the following Friday
SPaG.com
SPaG activities will be set on Fridays and will need to be completed by the following Friday.
Maths arithmetic
Arithmetic questions will be set on Fridays and will need to be handed in on the following Wednesday.
TT Rockstars
We suggest working on TT Rockstars for 15 minutes a week; however you can do more should you wish. Specific timestables will be set for your child and this programme aims to increase the fluency of these. This is an online maths game that can be accessed on tablet, ipads and desktops
English in Year Four
Reading in Year Four
During Year 4, children will apply a growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes to understand the meaning of new words. They will listen to a discuss a wide range of fiction, poetry, non-fiction and reference books and use a dictionary to check the meaning of words. Children will draw inferences such as inferring characters' feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and justify their inferences with evidence.
By the end of Year 4, children should be able to real aloud a wider range of poetry and books written at an age-appropriate interest level with accuracy and at a reasonable speaking pace. They would of developed strategies to choose and read a wider range of books including authors that they may not have previously chosen.
In non-fiction, the children know what information to look for before beginning and is clear about the task. the children can use contents and indexes to locate relevant information.
Writing and SPaG in Year Four
During year 4, the children will develop their use of paragraphs and in narrative, create settings , characters and plot. They will be able to write from memory simple sentences, dictated by the teacher, that include words and punctuation taught. They will use standard English forms for verb inflections instead of local spoken forms and be able to use fronted adverbials. Children will be able to choose an appropriate pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition and use inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech.
Maths in Year Four
During year 4, the children will develop their understanding of place value through counting in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000. They will be able to count backwards through zero to include negative numbers. They will order and compare numbers beyond 1,000 and round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. They will continue to solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in context, deciding on which operations to use and explain why. Children will be expected to know all multiplication and division facts up to 12 x 12.
When working with fractions, the children will be able to recognise and show families of common equivalent fractions and count up and down in hundredths. They will round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number and solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions to two decimal places. In measure, children will develop their understanding of converting between different units e.g. kilometre to metre; hour to minute.
In shape work, children ail compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes. they will identify lines of symmetry in two dimensional shapes presented in different orientations. They will specific points and draw sides to complete a given polygon.
Children will solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs.
