Summer 2
Summer 2
Our learning in Year 4 will build upon prior knowledge and learning as well as delving into and exploring new topics and skills.
English
Our focus this term is on an explanation text. This will be based on a text called ‘Why Dragons are extinct?’. We will then use Talk 4 Writing to learn, unpick and understand the features used within this text type before then planning our own explanation text based on the question ‘Why are Polar Bears endangered?’. We will continue our class text of The Lost Bear by Hannah Goldsmith.
Grammar
Many grammatical terms and features will be taught through our English lessons, but pupils will also take part in separate grammar lessons. Pupils will work on selecting the appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition. We will also use these grammar lessons to recap our previous terms’ learning, which was focused on fronted adverbials and word classes.
Grammar and Lightning will be completed once a week. This enables pupils to practice and recap all the required grammatical terms for Year 4.
Vocabulary
Bedrock will continue to be used to improve pupils’ vocabulary knowledge. The expectation for pupils to complete at least 2 lessons a week at home still remains.
Pronouns subordinate conjunctions contractions relative clauses parenthesis
Guided Reading
Pupils will continue with their work on reading for inference which was introduced last year and continued last half-term. Pupils will focus on inference and visualisation, both of which will support the pupils’ ability to unpick and relate to a text. This approach enables pupils to gain a deeper understanding of what they are reading and helps pupils to learn strategies to support them in becoming good and confident readers. In addition to this, our focus will be on retrieval and ensuring that the evidence used from the text is accurate and specific to the question.
Vocabulary
fluency infer relate specific accurate relevant evidence point explanation argument retrieval
Maths
This term, pupils will focus on the measurement of time, shape, statistics and position and direction.
We will start with a focus on measurement of time, studying years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds. We will develop our knowledge of the 24 hour clock and how to convert to and from the 24 hour clock. We will move onto studying shape with a focus on turns, angles and comparing angles. We will then be able to recognise and describe 2-D shapes before moving onto triangles, quadrilaterals and studying lines of symmetry. Following on from this we will be studying statistics with a focus on charts and line graphs.
We will end Summer 2 with position and direction with describing position and drawing and moving on a grid.
Every week pupils will complete a Number and Lightning and skills for this will be taught in addition to their daily Maths lesson. Pupils who are already competent in various areas will further embed their understanding through a range of reasoning and problem-solving activities.
Times tables will be a huge focus in class as we prepare for the multiplication check in May. It is imperative that pupils are able to recall all multiplication and division facts up to 12 x 12 in order to access all the curriculum. Pupils should also work on their times table at home.
Vocabulary
measurement time money calculate turns angles right angle 2-D shapes triangles quadrilaterals charts line graphs position direction grid
Other Subjects
Science
Science this term will be focused on Habitats and human impact. We will begin by investigating the plants and animals within their locality, and how biodiverse these local habitats are. We will continue to develop our prior knowledge of classification to explore and create classification keys with increasing independence. We will end the topic by exploring human impacts on plant and animal habitats. We will develop our awareness that these impacts can be both positive and negative.
Vocabulary
Habitat rural habitat urban habitat biodiversity classification key vertebrate invertebrate habitat natural resources deforestation rewilding
Computing
We will be continuing to follow Kapow for our Computing this term and will be investigating weather. We will be looking at how the weather forecast is created and learning how satellites work.
Vocabulary
climate zone condensation degree Celsius extreme weather
forecast lightning rain satellite temperature thermometer weather forecast
PSHE and RSE
During this half-term we will focus on safety and the changing body.
Throughout the unit we will focus on being safe online, puberty, the risk of tobacco and how to help someone with asthma.
Vocabulary
Age restriction asthma breasts genitals law penis law private protect puberty public testicles/testes tobacco
MFL
During this half term will be studying French food. We will focus on the use of menus, studying different ingredients and how to talkto customers in a restaurant.
Vocabulary
le café le restaurant le menu une boisson une entrée un plat principal je voudrais j'aime s'il vous plait merci le serveur l'addition
PE
This half term, pupils will focus on Rounder and Swimming.
Rounders- We will focus on developing our batting technique and starting to think about developing our tactics.
Vocabulary
Stance, grip, bat, strike, bowler, fielding,
Swimming- Our swimming lessons will focus on developing their water skills such as the ability to perform a safe self-rescue in different water situations, be able to swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres and be able to use a range of strokes effectively, for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke.
Vocabulary
Swimming, self-rescue, strokes, front crawl, backstroke breaststroke
Geography
We will be learning about Climate and Biomes. We will learn about the continent of Europe, various climate zones as well as the climate and oceans and biomes. We will continue to compare the Mediterranean climate and a temperate climate such as Britain.
Vocabulary
Continents Europe Climate Zones Oceans Biomes Mediterranean Temperate climates
Music
Music will be taught through a programme called Kapow and our topic is ‘Adapting and transposing motifs’. We will listen to the
Vocabulary
backing track bass line beat call and response compose crotchet dotted minim flats graphic notation in-time in-tune key key signature loop lyrics minim motif notation ostinato
Art and Design
Mechanisms- Slingshot Car.
This unit of learning will enable the children to develop their ability to design and make a car with a working slingshot mechanisms and being able to house the mechanism using a range of nets.
Vocabulary
Chassis energy kinetic mechanism air resistance design structure graphics research model template
Key Dates:
Year 4 MTC window- 3rd - 6th June
Year 4 assessment week- 9th – 12th June
Class photos- 13th June
KS2 Sports day- 16th June
Year 4 trip- 19th June
Summer Fayre- 25th June