Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Devon
The Year 4 Team
Curriculum Overview
This week in Devon
Week beginning 15th September
Devon have had a great start to their third week of term!
In English we have planned and started to draft a newspaper article based our our termly text, 'The King who banned the dark'. We have used formal language to report the events and included speech. Can you remind your adult what punctuation we use to show speech?
In Maths we are continuing with our place value topic having just looked at flexible partitioning of numbers to 10,000 and now the addition and subtraction of different amounts. We are really focusing on use of correct mathematical vocabulary in explanations and ensuring that reasoning is shown both and drawings and written explanations. Keep up the hard work focusing on your multiplication facts!
In RE we discussed how the wonderful world around us needs to be looked after and what part we can play in this both in school and also in our local area. In History we have begun to look at the events after the Romans left Britain. How many of the invading groups can you remember?
We look forward to seeing what exciting learning next week brings!
Class Timetable
This is an example timetable of what a typical week in Devon will look like.
PE is on Tuesday and Wednesday this term.
Home Learning
Times Tables Rockstars!
To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account.
Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!
Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.
Reading
Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book.
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Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.
Below is a list of the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 4 (please see attachment).
The spelling strategies document below shows what strategies are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words:
Maths strategies
Please see below attachments for examples from White Rose Maths including the four operations, (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and how we extend learning using reasoning style questions.