Lessons Planned and taught by External Sports Company Non-Stop Action.

P.E. will continue to be provided by Non-Stop Action Athletics and Rounders:   Use running, jumping and throwing in isolation and in combination. Play competitive games, modified where appropriate. Communicate, collaborate and compete with each other. Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. Develop an understanding of how to improve in different sports. Learn how to evaluate and recognise success. Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement.

We need to continue to work together to ensure that our children read ‘outside’ the classroom environment and develop a passionate love for reading books overall. This can only really be achieved with your support.

Even in year four children still need to be listened to reading by an adult daily. They need to engage with an adult talking about events in the book and making predictions about what might happen next. Our children really require ‘conversation’ so that they are able to develop their speaking and explaining skills, answering selected questions in full sentences and doing this at home with an adult, is the perfect setting for ensuring the continued development in this area, twhich school works towards consolidating every day. 

Please ensure that your child reads every day with you. 15 minutes every night, is ample time to engage with a book with an adult supporting. Evidence shows that children who read as often as possible, not only become fluent and expressive readers, they are also good spellers and good writers who have creative flair.

 

 

We follow the objectives of the national Curriculum 2014 using White Rose Maths

Topics covered this term:

• Decimals: Make a whole with tenths and hundredths, flexibly partition decimals, compare and order decimals, round to the nearest whole number and looking at halves and quarters as decimals. 
• Money: Write money using decimals, convert between pounds and pence, compare, estimate, calculate and solve problems with money.
• Time: Years, months and days, hours, minutes and seconds, convert between analogue and digital times, covert to and from the 24-hour clock.
• Weight and capacity: measure using the appropriate tools and units, progressing to using a wider range of measures, including comparing and using mixed units. Make comparisons of measures includes simple scaling by integers.
• Shape, position and direction: Develop understanding of angles as turns, identifying and comparing acute, right and obtuse angles, exploring properties of triangles, quadrilaterals and other polygons. Complete symmetrical figures, using coordinates to describe position, plot and draw shapes on grids, and translate shapes, accurately describing movement and direction.

Humanities: History

The Vikings

Investigating whether the Vikings were raiders, traders or settlers, making boats to see if the Vikings were engineers and exploring causes and consequences. Making deductions from sources, identifying the author’s viewpoint and explaining how this impacts the accuracy of the source.

 

Children will learn to:

• Understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science
• Analyse problems in computational terms and gain experience of writing simple computer programmes in order to solve problems
• Evaluate and apply information technology, including new or unfamiliar technologies, analytically to solve problems
• Be responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology

Children will be taught by a specialist French teacher Mrs Ramdarshan.

Pupils will learn to:

• Listen to the French spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding.
• Engage in conversations; ask and answer questions and express opinions
• Speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures
• Develop accurate pronunciation and intonation
• Present ideas and information orally to others
• Read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing
• Broaden their vocabulary
• Write phrases from memory
• Describe people, places, things and actions orally and in writing
• Understand basic grammar.

 

We will follow the Life to the Full programme. Each module of work begins with a session on religious understanding. 

Module: Created to Live in Community explores the individual’s relationship with the wider world. Here we explore how human beings are relational by nature and are called to love others in the wider community through service, through dialogue and through working for the Common Good. In Life to the Full Plus, further exploration of careers and money lead to understanding that true happiness comes from knowing God’s love and finding our identity and worth in Him.