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 17th March 2025
This week, the dominating news has of course been the Year 4 trip to Horton Kirby. The glorious weather allowed the children to enjoy the river at its sparkling best.
Sussex were welcomed by a group leader and then taken on a brisk walk down the valley to the Darent. Once there, the children played pooh sticks from the bridge, measured the speed of the current and also paddled. All the adults on the trip were enormously proud of Sussex; they behaved beautifully and showed great knowledge from their geography lessons.
In the afternoon, the classes rotated round three activities: testing rocks to find out if they were permeable or impermeable; a slideshow to extend their knowledge of the features of a river and building a river and testing the best place to build house near a river.
Well done Sussex, you had a wonderful day and have also been working so hard this week. Keep up the great work.
Mrs Shrimpton and Mrs Cheesman
Year 4 Maths workshop
What have we been up to recently?
A typical week in Sussex 4
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Maths Reading Breaktime Spelling English Lunchtime RE Maths Fluency Singing | Maths Maths Fluency Collective Worship Breaktime Reading English Lunchtime French Computing | PE Maths Collective Worship Breaktime Discovery Centre Handwriting Maths Fluency Lunchtime English Geography | Maths Reading Collective Worship Breaktime Spelling English Lunchtime Art RE Handwriting | Maths Spelling Collective Worship Breaktime English Reading Lunchtime PSHE Music Quiz and handwriting
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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.
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.
To continue to learn times tables, this website is useful:
Times tables games - Learn them all here!
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
The spelling words for our next spelling test have been set on the 19thMarch and will be tested on the of 26th March as we have revised our spelling groups slightly.
| Purple | Blue | Green | Red |
| whole | their | hour | one |
| hole | there | our | won |
| accept | they’re | are | to |
| except | friend | to | two |
| bury | friendly | too | free |
| berry | actual | two | three |
| probable | actually | for | |
| probably | usual | four | |
| actual | usually | ||
| actually | two |
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: