Welcome to Year 4. On this page you will find links to our curriculum overview for the year, our first learning enquiry question along with other useful information including home learning expectations.

 

PE

PE will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons led by Torquay United - children can wear their school PE kit to school on these days. Please see the school uniform policy for PE kit expectations. 

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Home learning

Children in Year 4 will be set weekly home learning in a home learning book. The learning tasks will consist of the following: 

 

Ready - something to find out or do in order to be ready for next week's learning

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Revisit - an activity linked to previous learning to help children retain knowledge already learnt.

 

Revise - an activity to consolidate learning that has happened during the week. 

 

In addition, children will be expected to engage in reading, the learning of 6 personal spellings and multiplication facts. 

 

Homework will be marked together on the Friday. If children are unable to complete home learning tasks at home, please contact me via Dojo.

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Reading

Children should bring their reading record book to school each day. Parents are asked to hear children read at home at least three times over the week and sign the reading record book. Children will have daily opportunities to change their reading books and will know how to do so independently.  In class there is a selection of Mr Hicks's recommended reads that children are very welcome to borrow and return. We have a recommended reads book that children can contribute to or go to for help choosing their next read. Our focus authors for this year are: Onjali Rauf, Anthony Brown and David Litchfield. 

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Multiplication Facts

Year 4 children will take part in a national 'Multiplication Tables Check' (MTC) in June. Over the course of the year, we will be consolidating facts and focusing on the x6, x7, x9, x11 and x12 multiplication facts. Children will need to be able to recall any multiplication fact within 6 seconds. Children will be encouraged to learn and practise these facts using TTrockstars and Hit the Button - see links.

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Spellings

In addition to a daily spelling lesson, children will correct spellings that they have misspelt in their learning journals. Words from our spelling lessons or words from the Year 3 and Year 4 spellings will be the focus for spellings to be learnt at home.