Park Mead Primary

Year 4

Mrs Bell

4BR (Mon - Tue)

Mrs Richardson

4BR (Wed - Fri)

Mrs Gilbertson

4G (Mon- Fri)

Mrs Davies

4G / 4BR (Mon - Fri am)

Autumn Term

Welcome to Year 4! We are excited to return to school on Thursday, 4th September. We have a fun-filled Autumn term with lots of new, exciting topics across the curriculum.

This page will be regularly updated to keep parents, carers, and children informed of what we are learning about at school.

Drop-off and collection times:

Drop-off: 8:40 am (Register taken at 8:50 am)

Collection: 3:20 pm

Daily Equipment:

Please ensure your child brings their homework diary and a reading book in each day.
They are also welcome to bring in a small pencil case with a pencil, ruler, rubber, sharpener, black handwriting pen, purple pen and colouring pencils.
As we are an all-weather school, children should bring a coat with them each day, as they will be outside at playtimes unless the weather is terrible.

Dates for Autumn Term 1

September

Weds 3rd - INSET

Thurs 4th - Year 1- 6 back to school

Mon 8th - Reception start

Wed 10th - Music Works assembly 2 pm – 3 pm

Tues 16th - 4BR swimming lessons 9:40 am – 10:40 am (11 lessons, finishing 2nd December)

Sat 20th - British Heart Foundation cycle event, PTFA doing the refreshments

Thurs 25th - Individual and sibling photos

October

October half-term - 27th to 31st October

PE days

4BR: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

4G: children will need to be in their P.E. kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

In Y4 the children will be having swimming lessons. Each class will have a total of 11 sessions each at Cranleigh School

This term will begin with 4BR every Tuesday morning, starting on 16th September until 2nd December.

4G will then swim every Tuesday morning, starting on 9th December until 17th March.

Top-up swimming lessons will take place for invited children. On swimming days, children are to come to school dressed in their PE kits, with their swimming things in a separate bag (goggles are optional but recommended). Please ensure that children have long hair tied back, ready for the lesson.

Maths We follow the White Rose scheme of learning.

More information is available here: White Rose Website

Autumn 1

Place Value
Pupils will be taught to:
- count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000
- find 1,000 more or less than a given number
- count backwards through 0 to include negative numbers
- recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (1,000s, 100s, 10s, and 1s)
- order and compare numbers beyond 1,000
- identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
- round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000
- solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers
- read Roman numerals to 100 (I to C) and know that over time, the numeral system changed to include the concept of 0 and place value

Addition and Subtraction
Pupils will be taught to:
- add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction, where appropriate
- estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation
- solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why

Maths homework :

Homework sessions will be set on TTRockstars.

This will be 15 minutes on Garage each week plus 2 soundcheck games. Garage helps them to learn the tables they are not yet confident with, and Soundcheck prepares them for the Multiplication Tables Check. Once the set homework is complete, children can play any of the games for additional practice, including 'Jamming' to practise specific tables without the timer; 'Studio' to increase speed and Rock Status; and 'Soundcheck' to prepare for the summer term times tables test.

https://ttrockstars.com/

A maths homework sheet will also be sent home each Friday to be returned the following Friday. This will be additional arithmetic practice to aid children's fluency and familiarity with written methods that have been learned at school.

English

As a school, we use Talk4Writing as a framework- all units are based on this.

Autumn 1

We begin the term with writing fiction. We will look at how writers create setting and atmosphere. The story we will use to inspire us is The Tunnel by Anthony Browne.