Year 4 Curriculum Letter Spring 1 2025

Kirsty Gibbs

1 year ago

Wednesday 15^th January 2025

Dear Parents/Carers of Year 4 pupils,

Welcome back. We hope that you had a lovely winter break.

Our topic this term is ‘Rotten Romans’. In History, our learning will be focused on answering the question, ‘Why were the Romans so powerful and what have we learnt from them?’ Our work in English will be focused around two texts, ‘The spider and the fly’ by Mary Howitt and the horrible histories book ‘Rotten Romans’. Our main writing outcomes will be a story and an information article about the Romans. Our Whole Class Reading text will be ‘Tamarind and the Star of Ishta’ by Jasbinder Bilan. In Maths our main focus will be multiplication and division and we will continue to learn the times tables. Please be reminded that the goal is for the children to know all of the times tables off by heart by the end of Year 4.

P.E. Lesson Dates:

	Azure and Turquoise classes	Cobalt class
Week 1	Wednesday 8^th Jan	Wednesday 8^th Jan
Week 2	Monday 13^th Jan & Tuesday 14^th Jan	Tuesday 14^th Jan & Wednesday 15^th Jan
Week 3	Monday 20^th Jan	Wednesday 22^nd Jan
Week 4	Monday 27^th Jan & Tuesday 28^th Jan	Tuesday 28^th Jan & Wednesday 29^th Jan
Week 5	Monday 3^rd Feb	Wednesday 5^th Feb
Week 6	Monday 10^th Feb & Tuesday 11^th Feb	Tuesday 11^th Feb & Wednesday 12^th Feb

Please ensure your child wears the appropriate kit to school on PE days (white T-shirt, dark bottoms, trainers/plimsols).

Home Learning

Maths

The children have been working really hard on times tables and have been enjoying Times Tables Rock Stars at school and at home. Please continue to encourage your child to recap the times tables learnt so far in Year Four and to continue to log on to Times Tables Rock stars at home as often as possible to further consolidate their learning. (https://ttrockstars.com/) Additionally, we will continue to set weekly maths tasks using Mathletics. If your child has lost their login details, please let their teacher know.

There will be a times table workshop for parents, after school on Tuesday 4th February 2024 which will outline what the National time tables check involves, as well as key resources to further support your child. Further information on this will be communicated to you closer to the time.

Reading

Reading is essential to help your child make progress in all areas of the curriculum. We would like children to read at home each day. It is best for an adult to check how they’re getting on, either by listening to them read or by asking them questions to check their understanding. This will help your child make faster progress with their reading. Please ensure that your child brings their reading book and their reading record book to school every day.

Other information

Please ensure that your child brings a filled and labelled water bottle to school each day.

Thank you for all your support.

Ms Whyte, Miss Drewe & Miss Saglam

Year 4 Home Learning – Spring 1, 2024

For this term, the aim of your home learning project is to consolidate last term’s learning. Try one or both of the activities below.

Can I adapt a recipe?

Design & Technology: Can you adapt one of your own recipes or either of the two below? Can you explain why you made the adaptation/s? Who was your target audience? Why would your adaptations suit them? How could you stick to a sensible budget? Take a photo of the food that you make and email it to year4@kelvingrove.lewisham.sch.uk Happy baking!

Can I make a model of the human digestive system?

Science: Can you use resources that you find at home to make a model of the human digestive system? Try to include the following: mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum. Can you write a summary to explain the function of each part?