Welcome to Year 4
Class teachers: Mr Sverha & Mrs PARRY
Teaching assistant: Mrs Bacon
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Key Information
Homework
Homework is set on a Thursday and is due the following Tuesday.
Reading
Children should be reading approximately 15 minutes a night. Please make sure to record reading in their reading record.
Children have easy access to our school library and below are links to the Lovereading4kids website where you can find a wealth of different books - the books you see on this website are available at a variety of retailers.
Books of the Month Dyslexia Friendly Books for Boys Reluctant Readers Children's Book Chart
PE/Forest School
P.E. is on Wednesday afternoon every week.
Forest School is every other Thursday
Swimming - starts on Thursdays after Easter 2020
Term 2 Topic
MEDWAY VS MEDITERRANEAN
(Geography based topic)
Key vocabulary:
location, route, network, distance, direction, grid reference, settlement type, economic activity, buildings, landscape, leisure, seaside resort, beach, coast, sea, physical, human, land use, features, traffic, vehicles, compass
GEOGRAPHY
- Can they describe the main features of a well-known city?
- Can they describe the main features of a village?
- Can they describe the main physical differences between cities and villages?
- Can they use appropriate symbols to represent different physical features on a map?
- Can they explain why people may choose to live in a village rather than a city?
- Can they explain how a locality has changed over time with reference to human features?
- Can they find different views about an environmental issue?
HISTORY
- Can they research what it was like for a child in a given period from the past and use photographs and illustrations to present their findings?
- Can they compare how our locality changed over time?
SCIENCE - SOUND
- Can they explain how sound sources vibrate to make sounds?
- Can they explain how vibrations change when the loudness of a sound changes?
- Can they explain how sounds travel to reach our ears?
- Can they describe the pitch of a sound?
- Can they describe patterns between the pitch of a sound and the features of the object that made the sound?
- Can they explain how sound travels through a string telephone?
- Can they identify the best material for absorbing sound?
- Can they create a musical instrument that can play high, low, loud and quiet sounds?