The Year Four Team

Curriculum Overview

This Week in Surrey

Week beginning 17th November 

Surrey have had a very exciting experience with snow this week! Timed beautifully for our morning break it created a lot of exciting conversations!

In English we have been looking at sentence structure and how it affects the reader. We have focused on creating a sentence that includes a main clause and a subordinating clause. We have experimented by moving this to the start of the sentence, followed with a comma, to see how this affects the sentence.

E.g., Many beetles can fly although some species have lost their wings over time. 

Although some species have lost their wings over time, many beetles can fly.

We are using these within our fact files about beetles later in the week. 

In Maths we have been continuing to look at our multiplication and division facts, currently focusing on the 7 times table and related facts. We are building our rapid recall in school alongside using our reasoning skills to make links. E.g. What is the relationship between the 2, 4 and 8 times tables? Please continue to practice at home, making the most of the Rockstars subscription through the school. 

In History we are going to be presenting our facts in group relating the the impact the Anglo-Saxons have had on modern day life. It's been lovely to see such high engagement in History this term. 

We have seen another great selection of  home learning tasks, and will be sharing some more tomorrow. Please ask the class teacher if you are unsure of how to complete these tasks.

Well done Surrey for a great start to the week!

Miss Towler, Mr Nunn, Mrs Cheesman  

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

Spellings will be set on a Wednesday and tested the following Tuesday each week. Our next spelling test will be on Tuesday 25th November. 

The link below will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/

This document contains spelling strategies that are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words:

Southborough's Spelling Strategies

Weekly investigative task

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups.
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday.

In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group.

Please see investigative task and groups in attached document below. 

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. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

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.

This week we are focusing on the multiplication tables for x3, x6 and x9.

If you know them well, maybe challenge yourself with the corresponding division facts. For example:

6 x 7 = 42

42 ÷ 6 = 7

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. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

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.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

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: 

Music Knowledge Organiser