Welcome to the Year 4 Workshop

Aims

• To show you what is expected of our children in Year 4

• To explain what the National expectations are for your child by the end of Year 4

• To share with you how to teach your children Literacy and Numeracy skills

• To provide you with the chance to ask any questions

• To give you ideas and ways to help your children at home

Numeracy Key skills• Partition, round and order four digit numbersE.g. Circle the number nearest to 1000.

1060 1049 1100 960 899• Use positive and negative numbers in

contextE.g.

The temperature inside an aeroplane is 20°C. The temperature outside the aeroplane is –30°C.What is the difference between these temperatures?

Numeracy Key skills• Add and subtract pairs of multiples of

10, 100 and 1000e.g.

Jan buys a newspaper for eighty pence and pays with a five pound note. How much change does she get?

Add and subtract mentally pairs of two digit numbers

e.g. 47 + 58

Numeracy Key skills• Refine and use efficient written methods to add

and subtract two and three digit numbers (including pounds and pence).

• How would you solve this question?

Sandwiches Drinks Fruit

Cheese £1.45

tuna £1.70salad £1.20

milk 55pcola 45pjuice 65p

apple 15ppear 20pmelon 25p

Shereen buys a tuna sandwich, milk and a pear.How much does she pay?

Numeracy Key skills• Derive and recall multiplication facts to 10

x10 and the corresponding division facts• Use written methods for multiplication (the

grid method) and division of two digit numbers by one digit number (chunking).E.g. Cat food costs 35p a tin. Sarah’s cat eats one tin a day. How much does it cost to feed Sarah’s cat for 7 days?What is the remainder when you divide 58 by 8?

Reading expectations

What is expected by the end of Year 4?• Children can identify and summarise

evidence from a text to support their answer.

• Deduce character’s reasons for behaviour from their actions.

• Explain how writers use figurative and expressive language to create images and atmosphere.

Reading expectations

• Expectations are that children read daily at home and discuss what they have read with a parent

• Children need to read a mixture of fiction and non-fiction texts

Example text“Lepandi, wake up.” It was her mother.“Huh, did I oversleep?”“No, my girl. It’s your Uncle.”“What’s the matter, Mama?”“He’s had an attack of some kind. I think it’s his heart. We need an ambulance.”“Why don’t you phone for one?” Legs yawned.“I tried but the lines are still down. I can’t send your brother, he’s too small. You’ll have to go.”Legs looked at the old alarm clock ticking away the time.Nearly five thirty. She scrambled into her running vest and shorts and tied the laces of her tackies.Legs ran out into the coming dawn and set off down the road at a steady pace. She slipped into her cheetah stride.

Example questions

• What does the word scrambled tell you about the way Legs got dressed?Scrambled tells you Legs got dressed as quickly as possible.

• “It’s my uncle…please come…his heart…”What does this sentence tell you about the way Legs was speaking?It tells you that Legs was panting because she had run a long way.

Writing skills• Develop and refine ideas using planning• Use settings and characterisation to

engage readers’ interest• Choose and combine words, images and

other features for particular effects.• Organise writing into paragraphs to

distinguish between different information, events or processes.

• Use adverbs, conjunctions and a varied sentence structure.

Writing skills• All around the fairground, the children rush excitedly

from ride to ride. • The sweet smell of burnt candyfloss floats across the

air.• Squeals of delight can be heard for miles around.• Brightly coloured stalls are surrounded by hundreds of

people.• Silently, the nervous child stares up into the sky while

waiting for the ride that towers above them.

As Historians we will be studying the Romans who settled in our country in the first century.

We will be finding out how archaeologists and historians have found buried treasure from the past that reveal the secrets from these times. We will use sources of evidence to help us find out about Roman life in Britain. We will also explore how the Romans still affect life today and how Roman culture can still be seen in some places.

As Geographers we will be practising map skills by looking at where the Romans came from and the countries the Romans invaded. We will explore geographical features – showing how Britain changed.

As Artists we will explore the properties of different papers to create mosaics.

As people concerned with our environment we will:Explore how the Romans changed the way communities lived and were organised.

As enterprising people we will:Investigate and experience trading .

We will:Explore our own buried treasure – finding out about our own and each other’s hidden talentsExplore what light and dark mean to us and others.

We will:Find out about people who have settled in our community.

EnterpriseEnterprise EnvironmentEnvironment Spiritual and moralSpiritual and moral CommunitiesCommunities

Revolutionary Romans!Revolutionary Romans!

Details of Visit

Colchester Castle MuseumOpportunity to learn more about

Roman life in Essex and about Boudicca.

Friday 7th OctoberWatch out for letter in bookbags

soon!

How can you help your child?• Hear your child read and ask about the text they

have read. Just because a child has read the words correctly, doesn’t mean they understand what the text means.

• Practise the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables and division facts.

• Practise mental addition and subtraction skills.• Help child learn their weekly spellings.• Encourage child to write and edit their own

writing. Could detail be added through using more powerful verbs, including adjectives and adverbs.

• Help your child to organise themselves and their time. Numeracy homework is due on Monday, Literacy homework is due in on Thursday and spelling tests will be on a Friday.