Banks St. Stephen’s CE Primary School
“Belonging, Serving, Succeeding”
Welcome to Year 4!
Welcome to our Year 4 class page. Our teachers are Mr. Richardson, Mrs. Jordan, Miss. McQuirk and Mrs Yardley.
Mr. Richardson leads our school curriculum, PE and Sports competitions and Religious Education.
Mrs. Jordan supports teachers and pupils across years 3 and 4
Miss McQuirk teaches Computing and PSHE on Monday afternoons.
Mrs. Yardley teaches French and guides Library time on Friday afternoons.
Here is our Summer 1 weekly timetable.
NB- Brass lessons are now on Thursday mornings at 9.45am
Our Yearly Overview of the Curriculum in Year 4
Year 4 Yearly Overview
Here is our Half termly curriculum overview
Subject |
Summer Term 1
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Summer Term 2
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Religious Education
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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
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Topic |
Victorians How inventions caused great changes in society. The Railways
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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
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Biography Autobiography |
Explanation: The water cycle Discussion Information |
Maths
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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. |
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Computing
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Purple Mash
Animation & Effective Searching
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Purple Mash
Logo |
History |
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Geography |
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North West |
Art |
Famous Buildings Around the World
Drawing, Painting and Collage |
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Design Technology
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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
- Tuesday- PE West Lancashire Schools Partnership delivery.
- 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