Year Four

Mr Hallam is the teacher in our Year Four class. Our PE day is Wednesday.

Class Saint

St David. Patron Saint of Wales. Feast day is 1st March. 

David was born about 520 near St. Bride’s Bay, Pembrokeshire, Wales. There is very little known about his life. David was the son of a leader named Sant and Non, a woman who later was named a saint.

David became a Christian priest. He then lived on an island for many years to study the Bible.

Once he left the island, David founded a monastery, or religious house, at Mynyw (Menevia) in southwestern Wales. Life at David’s monastery was very strict. The monks who lived there had to work very hard. They were rarely allowed to speak. They ate only bread with vegetables and salt. They drank only water.

David founded many churches throughout southern Wales. He later moved the center of the church government from Caerleon to Mynyw. David died in about 600 in Mynyw.

St David, Pray for us

Summer Term Curriculum Overview

Maths

Partition, compare, order and round decimals. Convert between pounds and pence. Compare, estimate and calculate with money. Convert between analogue and digital times. Identify angles. Lines of symmetry. Interpret charts and line graphs. Co-ordinates. Translations.  

English

The Y4 class text this term is Kaspar Prince of Cats.

We will be learning about: diary writing, inferring a characters thoughts and feelings, character description, use and correctly punctuate direct speech, relative clauses, organising paragraphs correctly around a theme, newspaper articles, accurately using reported speech, letter writing, newspaper reports, non-chronological reports, using apostrophes, using evidence from a text to support points made, subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.

RE

To the ends of the Earth

- Make links between Peter’s three denials of Jesus and Jesus’ three requests of Peter

- Find connections between Jesus’ words to Peter as the rock (Matt 16:18), John’s account of Peter, and the role of the Pope as Peter’s successor.

- Explain the term ‘apostle’ and explain why the Church is ‘apostolic’.

- Encounter the words of the Apostles’ Creed and know that it summarises the central beliefs of Christians.

- Explain how the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church is structured

- Describe some ways in which the Church today (locally or globally) continues the work of Jesus

- Describe what is meant by the ‘communion of saints’ and recognise that the Church teaches Mary has a special place within this communion as Queen of Heaven

Dialogue and Encounter

- Describe some facts about the life of St Paul and explain why he is an important figure for Christians

- Recognise some reasons why different liturgical traditions arose in different parts of the world.

- Describe some ways Christians in their local area work together for the benefit of the whole community

- Describe the five pillars of Islam and why they are an important part of Islamic faith and religious practice for British Muslims today

Art

Y4 will be studying Surrealism. Key learning includes:

- Identify Salvador Dali, MC Escher, Grete Stern and Nikolina Petolas as some of the surrealists

- Line, shape, form

- Tessellation 

- Primary, secondary, tertiary, monochromatic colours

- Foreground and background

- Positive and negative space

Science

Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating. Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear. Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it. Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it. Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases. Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C). Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.

Design and Technology

Food - A healthy and varied diet

PE

Tennis and Athletics

Computing

Photo editing- Manipulating digital images, and reflecting on the impact of the changes and whether the required purpose is fulfilled

Music

Clarinet lessons

PSHE / RSE

How a baby grows and develops in its mother’s womb including, scientifically, the uniqueness of the moment of conception. How conception and life in the womb fits into the cycle of life.  Understand what ‘death’ means. Learn about some feelings often connected with grief. Know what the Christian faith says about death and eternal life. Explore some ways to support themselves and others when they are grieving. Understand that change is a part of life and that there are different kinds of change. Learn about some feelings often associated with change. Know that God is always with us as we change and grow. Learn coping strategies to support themselves and others. Practical ways of loving and caring for others.  All forms of money have advantages and disadvantages. Our attitude to money and choices about spending, saving and giving impacts on ourselves and others. Budgeting helps to keep track of spending and saving.