 Banks St. Stephen’s CE Primary School
Banks St. Stephen’s CE Primary School
“Belonging, Serving, Succeeding”
Welcome to Year 4!
Welcome to our Year 4 class page. Our teacher is Mrs O'Brien and our class TA is Miss Mussell. Ms Robinson covers PPA on a Thursday.
Miss Mussell supports teachers and pupils across years 3
Our Yearly Overview of the Curriculum in Year 4
	Year 4 Yearly Overview
Here is our Half termly curriculum overview
| Subject | Summer Term 1 
 | Summer Term 2 
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| 
 Religious Education 
 | How should we Live our Lives? 
 Islam 
 Why do Muslims fast during Ramadan? 
 The Five Pillars of Islam Ramadan | How should we Live our Lives? 
 Christianity (Church) 
 What does ‘love your neighbour’ really mean? 
 Parables 
 love for all 
 | 
| Topic | Victorians How inventions caused great changes in society. The Railways 
 | A Region in the North West | 
| Book Focus | Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotton by Laura Veirs, illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh | Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker-Smith | 
| 
 English 
 | Biography Autobiography | Explanation: The water cycle Discussion Information | 
| 
 Maths 
 
 | Counting and Sequences (Statistics) 
 Fractions and Decimals (Measures) Fractions and Division 
 Measures- Volume, Capacity and Mass 
 Shape and Area 
 Multiplication Facts and Time | Place Value 
 Statistics 
 Addition and Subtraction (Statistics) 
 Multiplication and Division 
 Shape 
 Assess and Review Week | 
| Science | Living things and their habitats. | |
| 
 Computing 
 | Purple Mash 
 Animation & Effective Searching 
 
 | Purple Mash 
 Logo | 
| History | 
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| Geography | 
 | North West | 
| Art | Famous Buildings Around the World 
 Drawing, Painting and Collage | 
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| 
 Design Technology 
 | 
 | Mini Greenhouses Designing, making and evaluating mini greenhouses. | 
| Physical Education | WLSP Professional Provision Dance OAA 
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| PSHE | SCARF Being My Best | SCARF Growing and Changing | 
| Music | Charanga Blackbird | Charanga Reflect-Rewind-Replay | 
| French | Lightbulb Languages 
 Meet the animals, sounds and habitats | Lightbulb Languages 
 Animal descriptions | 
Key Information
- Monday- Choir club with Mrs Mussell
- Wednesday- Guitar lessons for those who take part.
- Thursday- Brass lessons, PE, Netball club after school.
- Friday- Homework set, spelling and times table tests.
The children should read their home reading books as regularly as possible.
Please remember to label all clothes and bags. Children need water bottles.
A Kindly reminder
Children need a school PE kit that consists of pumps, black shorts and a blue T-shirt. For outside winter session, children can wear black/navy bottoms and their school jumper or cardigan for warmth.
Helpful reminders of the websites we use:
maths.co.uk (https://www.maths.co.uk/)
Spag.com (https://www.spag.com/)
Times Tables Rock Stars (https://ttrockstars.com)
Spellings- Spellingshed.com
All login details are in reading records.
Kind regards,
All the staff in Year 4.
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