Northwick Manor Primary School

Staff	Contact details
Mr S Colley (Year Group Lead)	scolley@riverscofe.co.uk
Miss Gabrielle Tyler	gtyler@riverscofe.co.uk
Mr Philip Hampton	phampton@riverscofe.co.uk

Routines/equipment

Indoor PE lessons take place on Wednesdays
Outdoor games - Monday (Autumn term)
Devices need to be charged daily at home.
Pencil case which includes HB pencils, glue stick, coloured pencils, rubber and sharpener
Named water bottle
Spelling tests every Friday.
Homework is set Fridays should be handed in by the following Wednesday.

Break/Lunchtimes

Lunchtime 1:00pm - 1:45pm

Playtimes 10:45am

Healthy snacks please. Please note we are a nut free school.

Trips and special events

Children in Year 4 enjoy a variety of trips as well as workshops where visitors come to the school.

Trips this year include:

Autumn

Theme Days: Diwali Festival (Hinduism)

Ancient Greek Day

Spring

History Workshop (Romans) – The History Man

Chedworth Roman Villa Visit (History)

Summer

Residential trip to Malvern for two nights, three days.

Anglo-Saxons and Vikings Day

Special Events

Play to Learn peripatetic lessons - Toot Concerts (one per term)

Swimming - Year 4 classes will go swimming during the spring term.

Reading

In Year 4, your child is encouraged to become an independent reader. Reading as regularly as possible at home will help to support your child’s learning in school. There is less emphasis on hearing individual readers in Year 4, unless children need specific support. Instead, the focus is on class texts and reading comprehensions sessions where there will be discussion about author intent, language used, inference, and deduction skills. The children read a range of texts as a class, providing further opportunities for us to monitor and assess your child’s reading.

Please make sure that your child brings their reading book into school each day.

Multiplication

This year the children will be assessed in a national multiplication test. This will take place in the Summer Term. We will be asking the children to learn and rapidly recall all of the multiplication tables up to 12x12.

Clubs

Mondays: Girls’ Football, Karate

Tuesdays: Drama,

Wednesday: Boys’ Football, Singing, Oddstepperz

Thursday: Young Voices, Chess, Multi-sports, Football,

Friday: Cheerleading, Silent Disco.

Practical ways to support your child’s learning

Regular reading with an adult at home.

Supporting your child to learn weekly spellings and times tables facts.

Supporting your child with homework tasks.

Homework

Homework is set on a Friday and is usually a piece of mathematics and a piece of work linked to our Foundation subjects. It is linked to work that has been done in the class or can be in preparation for work that will be done. Ideally, the children should spend no more than 45 mins completing it. Homework should be handed in by Wednesday.

Please take good care of homework folders and maths homework books as these need to last all year.

SeeSaw

Sometimes homework may be loaded onto the SeeSaw platform. Your child will receive log-in details at the start of each year.

Spellings

The children will be screened in spellings and put into an appropriate group. They will be tested weekly on Fridays.

PE

Each Year 4 class usually has two P.E. sessions during the week. The children need to wear their kit into school on their PE day. The children will need shorts for the summer and tracksuit bottoms / joggers during the winter. All kit should be school uniform (either plain or with the school logo) – no sports branded items please.

Swimming will take place every Monday in the Spring Term, and you will receive a letter near the time.

Surgeries

4SC – Tuesdays

4GT – Tuesdays

4PH - Tuesdays

Curriculum Overview

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
English	Greek Myths and Legends Earth Verse Poetry The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 23 degrees 5 minutes	Everest The Boy who Lost his Spark Asha and the Spirit Bird	I Talk Like a River Beowulf King Arthur
Maths	Place Value Addition and Subtraction Multiplication and Division A	Multiplication and Division B Length and Perimeter Fractions Decimals A	Decimals B Money Time Shape Statistics Position and Direction
Science	Biology: Animals, including humans How does the digestive system work? Physics: sound How is a sound made and how does it travel?	Physics: electricity How does an electrical circuit work? Chemistry: states of matter What happens to a material when it changes between a solid, liquid or gas?	Biology: living things and their habitats How can we classify living things?
History	Greeks (776BC-146AD) How did Ancient Greece influence the modern world?	Romans (AD43-410) How did the Roman occupation change Britain?	Anglo Saxons, Scots and Vikings (450-1066) How did the power struggle between the Anglo Saxons and Vikings shape Britain?
Geography	Volcanoes / Tourism What is it like to live in and visit a volcanic region?	World’s biomes What are the world’s biomes like?	Rivers How does a river change from source to mouth?
Art	Drawing How do artists create an accurate drawing of a street view in perspective?	How can you use different acrylic painting techniques to create a viewpoint image?	Mixed Media How can recycled materials be used to create art?
DT	Structures - shell Can I design, make and evaluate a recycling station for your classroom to ensure appropriate recycling of all different items?	Cooking and nutrition – dairy, fats and sugar What are dairy, fats and sugars used for?	Circuits and switches – electrical Can I design, make and evaluate a product that incorporates an electrical circuit to aid everyday living?
RE	What do Hindus believe God is like? What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today? What is the Trinity? Christmas	How do festivals and family life show what matters to Jewish people? What is it like for someone to follow God? Why do Christians call the day Jesus dies ‘Good Friday’?	When Jesus left, what was the impact of Pentecost? How and why do people mark the significant events of life?
PSHE	Being me in my world Celebrating Difference	Dreams and Goals Healthy Me	Relationships Changing me
PE	Team Building OAA Pupils develop problem solving skills through a range of challenges. Pupils work as a pair and small group to plan, solve, reflect and improve on strategies. Invasion – basketball To apply defending and attacking principles and skills in a tournament. Gymnastics Can you perform a sequence, with a partner, using a range of quality movements? Fitness Take part in a range of fitness challenges testing and recording their scores. Learn about different components of fitness: speed, stamina, strength, coordination, balance and agility.	Invasion - netball Pupils will learn about defending and attacking play as they begin to play even-sided versions of 5-a-side netball. They will learn key rules of the game such as footwork, held ball, contact and obstruction. Invasion – hockey What skills will you need to be able to play an invasion game? Dance Perform dances clearly and fluently by creating characters and narratives through movement and gesture to structure dance phrases on my own, with a partner and in a group. Swimming	Athletics Achieve their greatest possible speed, height, distance or accuracy in running, sprinting, relay, long jump, vertical jump and javelin. Striking and fielding - rounders What skills will you need to develop to be able to play a striking and fielding game? Invasion - handball Select and apply skills of throwing, catching, dribbling, shooting and principles of defending and attacking. Net and wall - tennis Use simple tactics in a game to outwit an opponent and to demonstrate honesty and fair play when competing against others in matches.

Specialist lessons

Music

Year Four have a wonderful opportunity to take part in the ‘Play to Learn’ scheme during one term of Y4. Your child will participate in whole class sessions to learn the toot.

Music, Computing and French taught during PPA

Multiplication Tables Check