Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Surrey
The Year Four Team
Curriculum Overview
This Week in Surrey
It's been lovely to see how well Surrey have settled into school life in Year 4!
We have begun to look at our new termly text this week, 'The King who banned the dark'. We have been thinking about how we could best support him and planned a letter of advice. We used prepositions, e.g. on top, after, alongside thinking about how we can have an effect on the reader of the letter.
In Maths we have been building on our understanding of place value to 10,000 including reasoning questions that stretch and move the learning on. Today we were linking what we were learning in Maths to real life situations, where would we need to count in thousands? Why is this skill useful?
In Science we furthered our understanding of the food chain, looking at producers, consumers, predators and prey - can you think of an apex predator? In RE we were linking our learning about creation to 'our wonderful world' and all the things within the world that we can be in awe of.
Please ensure all PE kits come to school on a Monday and they will be returned home on a Friday to wash.
Well done for all your hard work Surrey!
Miss Towler, Mrs Cheesman and Mr Nunn
Class Timetable
This is an example timetable of what a typical week in Surrey will look like.
PE is on Tuesday and Wednesday this term.
Home Learning
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.
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.
Spelling
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: