Y4 Curriculum News 
                  
                      Spring term 2022                    
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                  
                            English                                                                     
                                                                                                 Maths 
                                                                                                         
         For poetry, we will be creating journey 
                                                                                   To start the term, we will be 
          raps – focusing on rhyme and rhythm.  
                                                                                multiplying and dividing.  We will                                       Note to Parents 
          We will be using the stories ‘Tortuga’                              practise working out questions in our 
                  
            by Paul Geraghty and ‘Journey’ by                                heads and then use written methods to                                                        
                  
            Aaron Becker for our story writing                                find the answers to multiplication and                                         P.E Days will be:  
             focus. For non-fiction we will be 
                                                                                  division problems.  We will be                                             Week 1 – Monday 
                  writing explanation texts                                   exploring different representations of                                       Week 2 - Wednesday 
              We also have daily spelling and                                                                                                     Trainers or plimsolls need to be in 
                                                                                 fractions, adding and subtracting 
              reading activities. These can be                                fractions with the same denominator                                          school on these days. 
                  
           supported at home through help with                                  and learning about the relationship                                                       
                  
                 the spelling homework and                                    between fractions and decimals.   We                                   Please ensure that your child: 
                 encouraging home reading. 
                                                                                will especially focus on tenths and                                                       
                                                                                               hundredths.                                          -      Reads at home at least 3 times 
                                                                                We also have regular times tables                                          a week and the home-reading 
                             Science                                                                                                                       record book is kept up-to-
                                                                               activities. These can be supported at                                       date.  This book will be 
                                                                             home through the use of TT Rockstars.                                         checked every Monday. 
               For the first half of the term our                                                        
               science focus will be Changing                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                    -      Practises their times  
             Sound.  We will be learning about                                                                                                             tables, this can be done 
                  
           how sounds are made and investigate                                                                                                             through TT Rockstars. 
                  
             vibrations, pitch and volume using                                                                                                              
              various instruments.  This will be 
                                                                                                                                                    -      Completes their spelling 
             supported by our trip to the science 
                                                                                                                                                           homework.  
              centre.  For the second half of the 
                                                                                                                                                                          
            term, we will look at the differences 
                   
                between solids and liquids and 
                  
             explore how they can be separated. 
                  
                                      
                                           Journey through Europe 
                  
                             PSHE.                                                                 P.E                                                      Geography 
                                                                                                       
                                                                              We will be learning about dynamic                                                          
        We will be thinking about our hopes and                                                                                             We will be learning about Europe. This 
                                                                                   balance, counter balance and 
         dreams and how we can overcome any                               coordination then developing these skills.                            will include studying the physical 
                   barriers we might face.                                                                                                  features and looking at how people live. 
                  
         We will also be thinking about how we                                                                                                   We will also look at the different 
          can keep ourselves healthy.  This will 
                                                                                           Computing                                          climate zones across Europe and will 
        include work on healthy eating, exercise                                                                                              learn how to use maps.  In the second 
                         and friendships.                                                              
                                                                           We will be learning about photo editing                           half of the term, we are going to study 
                                                                           using different tools to create this. This                                           volcanoes. 
                                                                                will be followed by data logging,                            
                                R.E                                           understanding how and why data is                                                Art / DT  
                                                                                                collected.                                                               
          We will be learning about how people                                                                                               In art we will be exploring cubism.  We 
                                                                                                       
         communicate with each other.  We will                                                                                                are going to look at cubist landscapes 
                                                                                                Music 
          then link this to the Jewish holy book                                                                                                       and then create our own.  
                                                                                                        
         (The Torah).  For our Easter focus, we                                                                                                                          
                                                                              We will be listening to some gospel 
         will learn about the Paschal candle and                             songs and will be learning to sing the                              In DT we will use the art work as 
          think ab   out why Easter is important to                                                                                            inspiration to create fabric landscape 
                            Christians.                                      song ‘Blackbird’ by The Beatles.  We                                             wall-hangings. 
                                                                                  will also play glockenspiels to 
                                                                                        accompany our song.