Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
Sussex
Year 4 Class Teachers
Year 4 Teaching Team
Specialist Teachers
Year 4 Curriculum Map 2024-25
Week beginning 25th November 2024
What a chilly week we have had again!
The children have worked hard this week both in their learning and rehearsals for our Christmas play.
In Maths we have been recapping our arithmetic and problem solving skills, applying this to the 12 times table and beyond. We continued to work on ‘SPED’, -> solve, prove, explain, draw not only the multiplication facts but linking it to division facts and also reasoning. We have been encouraging children to think carefully about which method they would use to solve a problem but also how to check their answer afterwards.
In English we have been learning about non-fiction texts such as a fact file. As our termly text has a creepy crawly as a main character we have been learning about rhinosaurus beetles. Did you know they can lift over 800 times their own weight? What other facts can you remember?
In History we created a character profile for King Athelstan who proved to be an interesting ruler who was very creative in his leadership style! In Computing we have been looking at how to recognise spam messages and what to do if we come across one.
We have been doing well in our Times Tables Rockstars competition between classes! I can’t wait to see the final scores at the end of the week. We won the Rock class of the week this week - keep it up Sussex!
Thank you for starting to bring in costumes for the Nativity this week, the children are working hard on rehearsing and learning words to the songs!
Well done Sussex!
Miss Towler and Mrs Cheesman.
A typical week in Sussex 4
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
English Reading Breaktime Spelling Maths Lunchtime Science Computing Singing | English Maths Fluency Collective Worship Breaktime Reading Maths Lunchtime Spelling Handwriting History | PE Maths Collective Worship Breaktime French Handwriting Maths Fluency Lunchtime English Geography | English Reading Collective Worship Breaktime Spelling Maths Lunchtime Art RE Handwriting | English Reading Collective Worship Breaktime Maths Handwriting Lunchtime PSHE Music PSHE
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Home Learning
Home learning and spellings will be set each week on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday.
Home Learning Topic Task 14.11.24 due in 22.11.24:
Our home learning task this week relates to both our whole school Christian Value of ‘Joy’ and leads us to thinking about preparing for the season of Advent in preparation for Christmas.
Every child will be given a sticky address label to bring home on Thursday 14th November. On this label, please write either a suggestion for finding joy in our everyday lives, or for an act of kindness that children could carry out. These are going to be used to create a class Advent calendar, inspiring us to find joy and bring kindness on each day of the Advent season.
Please ensure your child writes their name on their label and return it to your child’s class teacher by Friday 22nd November, to give us time to prepare the Advent calendars in class before the start of December.
Thank you for supporting your child’s learning by completing this task, we hope you enjoy discussing ways of finding joy and showing kindness!
Examples of finding Joy:
1. Look at some leaves that have fallen from the trees, can you see which tree they came from? What patterns can you see?
2. Curl up with a really good book today and then talk about it with a friend.
3. What was the most delicious thing that you ate today?
Examples of acts of Kindness:
1. Look for somebody at playtime today who has nobody to play with and ask if they would like to play with you.
2. Ask somebody you don’t know and find out what their name is and have a conversation with them.
3. Give somebody a complement about themselves today. Tell them they have made you laugh or that you noticed their neat handwriting, make someone else smile!
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.
Well done to Grayson who has flown through this week with 3,451 correct answers!
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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We recommend children in Year 4 read for at least 20 minutes a day. 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
Spellings will be tested in class every Wednesday.
Here are the spellings for children to learn for next week. Your children will know which group they are in.
purple | blue | red |
| divide | school | again |
| division | chemist | because |
| explode | ache | all |
| explosion | chaos | call |
| decide | stomach | tall |
| division | character | fall |
| revise | scheme |
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| revision | should |
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| confuse | their |
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| confusion | there |
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: