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TOPICS/CURRICULUM

Summer Term 2

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely half term. We had a fantastic half term learning about rivers.

Now, we look forward to the last half term of year 4 and all the events taking place, including Dalesdown! This term our topic continues to focus on rivers and how human and physical changes can affect the world. This booklet will give further details of all the subject areas that the children will be learning.

Summer Term Topic: Explore - Rivers

We will be learning:

  • about physical changes to rivers, e.g. erosion and deposition and what effects it can have on local areas.
  • About human changes e.g. deforestation and building on floodplains.
  • How pollution can affect ecosystems.

English Learning

In English, we will be continuing with our class text ‘The River Singers’ by Tom Moorhouse. We will be:

  • Writing newspaper articles
  • Continuing a chapter using our own ideas
  • Letter writing

Within these tasks continuing to work on our spelling, punctuations and grammar.

Mathematical Learning

This half term we are looking at:

  • 2D shapes and symmetry
  • Division with remainders

 

PSHE Learning

We will be learning about citizenship and focusing on human rights, communities and inclusion.

French Learning

This half term we will be learning about clothing and using knowledge of colours to describe what a person is wearing.

Scientific Learning

Our science work this half term will be:

  • About the different habitats of living things
  • About how habitats provide for the basic needs of animals and plants
  • To group and classify living things
  • The impact of the changing environment on living things

 Music Learning

We will be continuing to learn how to play the glockenspiel with Mr Chalk.

Computing Learning

We will be having a go at website design and using skills to design A collaborative website.

PE Learning

We will be continuing with our weekly swimming lessons at the Wave. In indoor PE we are working on rolling, jumping and balancing through some rhythmic gymnastics.

Faith and Wonder Learning

We are learning about the Christian answering the question ‘When Jesus left, what was the impact of Pentecost?’ We will be exploring artist’s impressions of Pentecost and reflecting on the impact of the Christian church.

How can you help?

  • Continuing to read regularly at home to an adult, with lots of discussion about the books.
  • Lots of regular times table testing and quick maths skills following the instructions indicated on the home learning sheets. The faster the response, the better!
  • Supporting your child with learning their spellings, discussing the meanings of words, putting them into sentences and reviewing spellings from previous weeks.
  • All of this will be on the weekly home learning sheets.

Events/Trips planned for this half term 

  • Year 4 residential to Dalesdown - 10th – 13th June

  • Sports Morning – Tuesday 17th June 9:15

  • Legacy Games day at The Angmering School – Tuesday 1st July

  • Transfer morning – Wednesday 2nd July

 

Further dates and information may come out from the Office throughout the half term.

If you have any resources you are happy to loan to us or have any particular knowledge about any of our focuses, please let us know.

Class emails:

mole@stmargaretsprimary.org.uk

fox@stmargaretsprimary.org.uk

The Year 4 team