Cranborne Primary School
Welcome to Year 4!
Welcome to our Year 4's class page!
Here you will find information about our learning, experiences, class information and any other news
Our Year 4 team
Staff contact details:
4W:
Mrs Watson: awatson@cranborne.herts.sch.uk
4H
Mr Hicks: chicks@cranborne.herts.sch.uk
We are really looking forward to all the exciting things we are going to be doing this term.
Key Dates and Reminders
Monday 6th January 2025 - First day back for all children
Wednesday 15th January 2025 - Parent Teacher Consultations 4:30pm to 7:30pm
Thursday 16th January 2025 - Parent Teacher Consulations 3:45pm - 6:30pm
Wednesday 22nd January - Young voices at the O2 Areana (Choir only)
Monday 17th - Friday 21st Febrauary 2025 - Half Term Holiday - School Closed
Monday 24th February 2025 - Inset day
Tuesday 25th February 2025 - All children back to school
Thursday 6th March 2025 - World Book Day
Tuesday 18th March 2025 - Mental Health Workshop for parents on Resilience - All welcome 9am - 10am
Tuesday 1st April 2025 - Music Concert (instruments only) 2pm
Friday 4th April- End of Term (1:15pm finish)
Music
Compusing with friends
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Feelings through music
How does music improve our world?
Design and Technology
During this term we will be looking at and creating our very own pop up book.
Art
During this term, we will be sculpting clay. We will take inspiration from our Ancient Egyptian topic when designing our patterns in clay, and attempt to make our very own pieces of Egyptian pottery.
PE
This term, our PE session will be on Thursday morning. Please ensure your children come to school in their PE kits.
The children will continue to swim every Friday morning from the 17th January. Please ensure your child comes to school 'swim ready', with their swim wear worn underneath their PE kits and their changing bags ready. Thank you.
Useful Websites
Mathletics
Purple Mash
https://www.purplemash.com/cranborneen6 can
Please find your child's log in details in their reading record
Purple mash is a great resource with lots of resources to explore.
Times Table Rockstarshttps://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/29172
Please find your child's log in details in their reading records.
Times Table Rockstars is a fun and engaging way for children to practice their times tables.
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| EYE Year 4 Writing in more detail.pdf.pdf | |||
| EYE Year 4 Reading WritingEYE Year 4 Reading Writing | EYE Year 4 Reading Writing |
Maths
This half term we will be learning about the following:
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Place Value – Order and Compare Numbers Beyond 1000 Rounding, Estimation and Magnitude
Securing Addition and Subtraction Mental Fluency
Securing Formal Written Addition and Subtraction Fluency
Counting in Multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000
Multiplication and Division Facts (Times Tables)Factor Pairs, Integer Scaling and Correspondence Problems
Problem Solving Including Measures to Apply Place Value, Mental Strategies and
Arithmetic LawsMultiply and Divide a One or Two-digit Number by 10 and 100
Measure – Conversion of Units
Measures – Compare, Estimate and CalculateDiscrete and Continuous Data (Time Graphs), Including Application of Scales and
DivisionPerimeter
Each morning, your child will continue to complete their 'Early Morning Work' to consolidate their skills and build mental fluency.
How can I help my child?
Ask your child to explain to you what they have done during the school day. Ask your children to pretend to be the teacher and explain the methods that they have learnt in class. Please look on Purple Mash and Mathletics for tasks that will support your child's learning.
Mental fluency
Helping your child with their mental fluency is the most effective way to improve your children's skills.
Please ensure you are helping your child by asking them questions on the following topics:
- Times tables (up to 12 x 12)
- Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
- Halving numbers - even tricky ones such as 72
- Doubling numbers
- Adding
- Subtracting
- Telling the time
Maths topics this year
Times tables
Each week, we will be testing children on their table knowledge using Purple Mash. Children will be tested weekly using Ipads. There will be 6 seconds in between each question. Each week we will record a score out of 25.
In June, all children in the UK will be sitting a government timetable test. They will be expected the know all their multiplication facts ( times tables) up to 12 x 12 and recall these at speed. The test will be on the iPads and they will have 5 seconds to answer the questions.
Please continue to support your child by practicing regularly home. Each week we will be revisiting a different multiplication table and every Friday the children will be doing a test based on their tables they have learnt so far.
TIMESTABLES ROCKSTARS: This is a brilliant resource to use to assist children with their times table knowledge.
Every child has their log in details in their reading record.
Science
. This term we will be looking at animals and their habitats. We will be.....
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• use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment • recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways • describe some of the characteristics of the vertebrate (fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds) groups (e.g. warm-blooded, have fur, lay eggs) • group animals into vertebrate (fish, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds) and invertebrates groups (snails, slugs, spiders, worms and insects) • recognise that green plants are the ultimate source of food for all animals • recognise that a food chain must always start with a green plant (a producer) • represent feeding relationships within a habitat with food chains beginning with a green plant which ‘produces’ food for the other organisms • use and understand the terms: producer, predator and prey • construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey (Teacher Note: statement moved from NC ‘Animals including humans’ to improve progression within topics) • know the function of some of the more complex features which aid survival in specific habitats (e.g. gills, blubber, camouflage) • describe why different animals and plants live in different habitats • recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things • describe how humans can cause changes to environments • explain that different organisms are found in different habitats because of differences in environmental factors |
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TIMES TABLE PRACTISE SHEETS
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| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 17.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 18.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 19.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 20.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 21.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 22.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 23.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 24.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 25.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 26.pdf.pdf |
GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION ACTIVITY SHEETS
Working from home
If your child wishes to do some work at home, please see below for some work they may wish to complete.
We suggest your child should complete the following:
Maths (White Rose), English (Oak academy or Bitesize), Independent reading and a Science task..
Maths
Choose one of the following
Click on the link for lessons
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-1/
Use the BBC link to pick your lesson from the day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfch7yc
You may like to explore these lessons from Oak Academy.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/place-value-00b7
English
Click on the link to a sequence based on the book 'Hansel and Gretel', by Anthony Brown.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/hansel-and-gretel-by-anthony-browne-e2f3
English
This half term we will be studying 'Leon and the place between'. We will be doing lots of writing. Our grammar focus will be:
- noun phrases
- punctuation
- subordinating conjunctions
- Coordinating conjunctions
- prepositions
- Fronted adverbials
- Speech
- ambitious vocabulary
Throughout Year 4, the children will be working towards achieving their pen licences. We will continuously work on their handwriting ensuring it is joined up and neat.
Each week, we will continue to teach reading comprehension skills through a scheme called 'Cracking Comprehension'.
Oxford owl:
For extra spelling resources and ebooks please follow this link:
Username: cranborne
Password: school 1
Reading
Helping children to develop a love of reading is our passion at Cranborne. In order to develop their fluency and comprehension skills, pupils are expected to read everyday for at least 10 minutes (from a variety of texts) and have their reading record signed. These will be checked regularly.
We will continue to use the Accelerate Reader programme and quizzes in school. Please do speak to your class teacher if you have any questions.
Reminders
Homework
We expect the children to be reading and practising their timetable 5 times per week.
School closure
In the event of school closure, all work will be set via the school webpage.
If your child is required to self isolate, please inform your child's class teacher and we will provide work for them to complete.
Curriculum Overview
See below for an overview of the curriculum subjects we will be teaching this year.