wootton primary school—year four overview autumn term (2) …
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Wootton Primary School—Year Four Overview
Autumn Term (2) 2020
English
This half-term we will be linking our English
texts to our studies in History. We will be
delving into the mytho-
logical and monster-
inhabited world of Beo-
wulf: Dragonslayer with
Rosemary Sutcliff, and
the equally legendary
tales of King Arthur and
the Knights of the Round
Table, re-told by Marcia
Williams. Through these
exciting books we will develop our reading
and writing skills to: expand detail and de-
scription, build suspense, begin to structure
our writing into paragraphs, and practise ap-
plying our Grammar,
Spelling and Punctua-
tion knowledge more
accurately . We will
also begin to build our
stamina for writing,
thinking about pace,
quantity, and quality.
Maths
Multiplication and Division
We will revise known multiplication and division
facts and how to apply these to solve problems.
We will also learn how to multiply 2-digit num-
bers by partitioning and recombining.
Fractions
The class will learn to recognise and calculate
with tenths, including exploring equivalent frac-
tions, and proper and improper fractions. We will
also begin to link fractions with decimal repre-
sentations, finding the effect of dividing by 10
and 100.
Measurement—money and length
We will estimate, compare and calculate money
in £ and pence, converting between units. We
will also measure and calculate the perimeter of
shapes in cm and m, converting between units,
and ordering and comparing lengths. The class
will also practise their addition and subtraction
skills in the context of measurement.
Dear Parents and Carers,
We are very pleased with how well the class has
settled back in after so long away from school.
Well done, everyone! We look forward to the
coming half-term with the class and have lots of
interesting new learning planned for them.
This half-term Miss Clifford will also be joining
us to support the class during the mornings.
PE will continue to be on a Thursday morning
with Mr Billington. Please send your child to
school on this day wearing their PE kit.
For homework we will continue to ask the chil-
dren to read daily, practise their times tables,
and access the weekly spelling via Google Class-
room. Thank you all for your support with this.
Our virtual parent meetings are also coming up
on the 10th—11th November. Please sign up if
you have not already; we look forward to shar-
ing your child’s progress with you.
Please do email, phone or catch us at drop off
or pick up if you have any worries or questions.
Best wishes, from the Year 4 team:
Miss Paterson, Mrs Digweed, Mrs Gilbert and
Miss Clifford
French:
Year 4 will continue to develop their pro-
nunciation and revise colour vocabulary,
They will also practise constructing spo-
ken and written sentences.
Art and DT: Printing and Sculpting
The children will look at creating accurate print designs us-ing different colours and materials in the context of the illu-minated lettering of the Anglo-Saxon Lindisfarne manu-scripts. They will also experiment with a range of sculpting techniques to make clay pots linked to their History studies this half-term.
History: Anglo-Saxons and Scots
We will be plunging into the Anglo-Saxon period, examining how we know about Anglo-
Saxons and Scots, where they came from, and what they believed in. The class will also
compare how fighting has changed since Anglo-Saxon times, how daily life today is
different from that in Anglo-Saxon times, and explore whether life was better under the
Romans or Anglo-Saxons.
If you have any questions then please do contact us in person or through the class email address:
Best wishes, from the Year 4 team: Miss Paterson, Mrs Digweed, and Mrs Gilbert
PE: Basketball and Nutrition
This unit focuses on the skills or dribbling, passing and piv-
oting, including how to apply these to game situations. The
children will learn how to read the flow of a game and start
to be able to make tactical decisions.
PSHE: Valuing Difference
The class will be exploring managing conflict or differences
through negotiation and compromise, learning strategies to
deal with aggression, and how to both respect difference
and tackle stereotypes.
Computing: Coding
The class will explore coding vocabulary, represent program
designs and algorithms and create a program which responds
to commands using variables. They will program a character to
respond to user keyboard input, create a simulation, and de-
sign a decomposed feature of a real life situation.
Music: Glockenspiel
Style: Mixed
We will be developing our playing skills
using the glockenspiel, including reading
musical notation.
Science: Sound Investigators
We will investigate how sounds are made, recognising that vibrations from sounds
travel through a medium to the ear. We will identify patterns between the pitch of
sounds and the features of the object that produced it, and also between the volume
of the sound and the strength of the vibrations which produced it. We will also investi-
gate what happens to a sound as the distance from the source increases.