Sandown
Year 4 2023/2024
Hello and welcome to the Year 4 page
Our teaching team consists of Mr Chapman, Mr Gambrell, Miss Roberts, Miss Black, Miss Nadin and and Mrs Lown.
Year 4 have PE on a Wednesday and Friday. Please can children come to school in PE kit on these days.
We also visit Green Zone every term. Have a look at the Green Keeper Blogs to see more of what we get up to.
This year we are all learning the recorder. Click here for the terms and conditions regarding the loan of the recorder.
Below you will find an overview of our planned learning each term. For more information on what your child will be learning in year 4 please see the curriculum pages and termly newsletters.
Term 1 newsletter and home learning
Year 3 explore Green Zone
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Overview |
Visits/trips |
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Term 1 What’s the Deal? Hook: Betteshanger Park visit
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We will regularly be revisiting and practicing times tables in preparation for MTC
Writing genres - Setting descriptions (short-burst writing), Diary, Non-Chronological Report. SPAG – Description: Expanded Noun Phrases, Prepositional Phrases, Similes and Metaphors (figurative language). Diary: Correct use of simple past, past progressive and past perfect, Fronted Adverbials. Non-Chronological Report: Paragraphs into themes, Apostrophes to mark singular and plural possession.
HISTORY: Question: “What did the mining community bring to Deal?” We all also look at map skills (locally) and we will link back to prior Y1 learning about Deal’s smuggling history, comparing the two significant periods.
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Betteshanger Park
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Term 2
Suitably Sustainable
Hook: Deal Beach litter pick
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We will regularly be revisiting and practicing times tables in preparation for MTC
Writing genres – Poetry (narrative poetry), Adventure (narrative), Instructions (link to sustainability topic and DT – making litter pickers) SPAG – Poetry/ Adventure: Present and progressive perfect, adverbs of time, place, manner and frequency. Adventure: Fronted adverbials, range of conjunctions. Instructions: Implied second person, commas in a list, adverbs of time, place, manner and frequency.
GEOGRAPHY Question: “How can we live more sustainably?”
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Beach visit Litter pick |
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Term 3 Groovy Greeks
Hook: Greek Art day
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We will regularly be revisiting and practicing times tables in preparation for MTC
Writing genres – Narrative, Playscripts for animation, Persuasive argument (“How has Ancient Greece influenced modern society?) SPAG – Narrative: Use of full speech punctuation, begin to interweave character, plot, setting and dialogue, subordinate clauses. Power of three. Playscripts: begin to interweave character, plot, setting and dialogue, brackets for emotion. Persuasive argument: Rhetorical questions, paragraphs organised around themes, singular and plural possession.
HISTORY: Question: “How has Ancient Greece influenced modern society?”
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Greek Day (inc. Olympics) |
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Term 4 Rotten Romans Hook: Roman day
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We will regularly be revisiting and practicing times tables in preparation for MTC
Writing genres – Newspaper report, Poetry (Classics), Recount SPAG - Poetry Newspaper report: Apostrophes to mark singular and plural possession. Commas in a list, Fronted Adverbials, Inverted commas. Recount: Variations in sentence structure: prepositional phrases, expanded noun phrases, subordinate clauses, Paragraphs organised around themes. Standard English (verb inflections).
HISTORY: Question: “What happened when the Romans came to Britain?” We will be referring back to prior learning about the Stone Age (Y3) and the Ancient Greeks (previous term).
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Roman Painted House/ Canterbury Roman Museum
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Term 5 Majestic Mediterranean Hook: Food from around the World
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We will regularly be revisiting and practicing times tables in preparation for MTC
Writing genres – Poetry (clarihews), Persuasive leaflet, Narrative (descriptive writing) SPAG - Poetry: Persuasive leaflet: Emotive language, apostrophes to mark singular and plural possession, commas in a list, fronted adverbials. Narrative: figurative and expressive language to describe, expanded noun phrases, adverbs of time, place and manner.
GEOGRAPHY: Question: “What makes the Mediterranean a unique and special place?”
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Term 6 Sweet Temptations Special Delivery linked to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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MTC
Writing genres - Letter, Narrative. Persuasive advert SPAG - Letter: Nouns and pronouns used for clarity and cohesion, use of simple, past, past progressive and past perfect. First and third person, wide range of conjunctions. Narrative: Interweave character, plot, setting and dialogue (links between paragraphs to build up events), Nouns and pronouns used for clarity and cohesion, A wider range of conjunctions, Fronted adverbials, Use of full speech punctuations, Power of Three, Figurative language (A culmination of all key year 4 writing skills on show)
GEOGRAPHY: Question: “How has Deal changed over time?”
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