Writing

Wolves in the Walls

Lessons will concentrate on the craft and construction of sentences. The children will build a whole piece of text using these different sentence types and skills.

Reading Adventures 

There's a boy in the Girls' bathroom by Louis Sachar. This writing and reading unit will offer the children many learning opportunities, including links with PSHE. 

Maths

In maths, we will be developing our understanding of four digit numbers and the place value of each digit. We will be ordering and comparing numbers, rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 and using formal methods to add and subtract, to name but a few. In readiness for our times table check, please practise your times tables daily - Please see the times tables tab https://www.berkswichceprimary.co.uk/times-tables-1/ 

       Number and place value:

· Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9. 25 and 1000.

· Find 1000 more or less than a given number.

· Recognise the place value of each digit in a four digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens and

· ones).

· Order and compare numbers beyond 1000 Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations.

· Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000.

· Solve number and practical problems that involve all of the above and with increasingly large positive numbers.

· Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.

Addition and subtraction:

· Add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate.

· Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to a calculation.

· Solve addition and subtraction two step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.

Religious Education

This half term, the children will be studying the creation story and discovering what Christians can learn from it.

Computing

The children will apply their knowledge and understanding of networks, to appreciate the internet as a network of networks which need to be kept secure. They will learn that the World Wide Web is part of the internet, and will be given opportunities to explore the World Wide Web for themselves in order to learn about who owns content and what they can access, add, and create. Finally, they will evaluate online content to decide how honest, accurate, or reliable it is, and understand the consequences of false information.

Physical Education

Tennis coach, Chris Proud will be teaching Year Four tennis at Walton Tennis Club. This will be supported by Mrs Ennis. This is a great opportunity for the children and they will learn both skills and improve fitness levels. As well as tennis, the children will be taking part in fundamental skills:

Stability, locomotion and object control are the three foundations of fundamental movement knowledge. They need to become automatic so that students can move without having to think about it, much the same as decoding while reading needs to be automatic before fluency and comprehension is possible. Without mastery of fundamental movement knowledge, students will have little working memory to think about strategy and tactics, key components of physical education. Fundamental movement begins as generic knowledge then develops into sport-specific knowledge.

History

The children will discover: who lived in the UK during the Iron Age; what the settlements were like and how they were built; beliefs and druids; conflict; farming and much more.