• the violin as an instrument– focus on four strings, pizzicato playing

• how to play instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency and control

• to use and understand staff notation- pitch notation, crotchet, minim rhythms

• how to sing together

• animal nouns

• how to use an adjective such as a colour or a size to describe a noun

• how to answer the question, "Do you have any pets?"

• how to explain the colour, size and name of a pet.

e.g. J'ai un petit oiseau jaune qui s'appelle Tweety.

• To locate Greece on a map of Europe and the Mediterranean.

• How the geography (mountains, coastline, islands) influenced the development of independent city-states.

• To place Ancient Greece onto a timetable with Ancient Egypt and Rome.

• To understand why Greek city-states developed and how they were different from earlier Greek societies.

• To compare the city states of Athens and Sparta.

• What is democracy? How was it different from monarchy or tyranny?

• To describe how democracy worked in Athens and discuss its strengths and limits.

• To describe daily life for various groups in Athens and explain who benefited from democracy.

• To explain how Greek myths and ideas reveal their beliefs about the world.

• To recognise the names of famous Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle.

• To explain how evidence from primary and secondary sources helps us understand Ancient Greek society and beliefs, and how to analyse the reliability of historical sources.

• To identify lasting legacies of Ancient Greece and explain why it remains significant, such as the influence on government, philosophy, theatre, mathematics, and medicine.

Key Vocabulary: Mediterranean Sea, city-states (poleis), urban, agora, city-states (poleis), Athens, democracy, citizenship, tyranny, mythology, philosophy, Greek tragedy, empire, influence

• To name and locate the capital cities of Europe and recognise their identifying human and physical characteristics.

• To identify the human characteristics of a city and explain their location and how cities grow and develop over time

• To explain how key aspects of physical geography determines the location of capital cities

• To explain how key aspects of human geography determine how cities develop over time

• To describe the geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of London and Athens

• To identify the similarities and differences between the cities of London and Athens in terms of both their human and physical characteristics.

• To conduct a local field study to evaluate how the area has expanded and grown over time.

Factor pairs

Use factor pairs

Multiply by 10

Multiply by 100

Divide by 10

Divide by 100

Related facts – multiplication and division

Informal written methods for multiplication

Multiply a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number

Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number (1)

Divide a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number (2)

Divide a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number

Correspondence problems

Efficient multiplication

Measurement – Length & Perimeter

Measure in kilometres and metres

Equivalent lengths (kilometres and metres)

Perimeter on a grid

Perimeter of a rectangle

Perimeter of rectilinear shapes

Find missing lengths in rectilinear shapes

Calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes

Perimeter of regular polygons

Perimeter of polygons

Number - Fractions

Understand the whole

Count beyond 1

Partition a mixed number

Number lines with mixed numbers

Compare and order mixed numbers

Understand improper fractions

Convert mixed numbers to improper fractions

Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers

Equivalent fractions on a number line

Equivalent fraction families

Add two or more fractions

Add fractions and mixed numbers

Subtract two fractions

Subtract from whole amounts

Subtract from mixed numbers

Number - Decimals

Tenths as fractions

Tenths as decimals

Tenths on a place value chart

Tenths on a number line

Divide a 1-digit number by 10

Divide a 2-digit number by 10

Hundredths as fractions

Hundredths as decimals

Hundredths on a place value chart

Divide a 1- or 2-digit number by 100

We are excited for another term in Year 4 with lots of fascinating units to get stuck into.

We are looking forward to our Ashmolean school trip in February.

Beech- Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Chestnut- Mondays (swimming) and Wednesdays

As part of the National Curriculum, all children must partake in physical education. In order for your child to participate in PE lessons, they must come to school in a clean PE kit. Appropriate trainers for outdoor PE is essential for Health and Safety reasons. 

Children will be allowed to arrive to school in their PE kits and not need to bring their school uniform on these days. 

Microsoft Teams Reading - this will be set weekly or bi-weekly

In addition, extra homework will be sent home if your child’s teacher feels it will help your child to practice what they have learnt in school that day. 

Your assistance in ensuring that your child completes the above homework to a good standard would be greatly appreciated. 

_{- Recognise the importance of behaving in a responsible manner in a range of situations}

_{-  Describe a range of situations where being on time is important}

_{- Explain the importance of having rules in the home}

_{- Describe ways that behaviour can be seen to be sensible and responsible}

_{- take practical steps, they can take in a range of different contexts to improve /support respectful relationships}

_{- discuss the importance of self-respect and how this links to their own happiness.}

- How to compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases

- How to observe how some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius

- How to identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature

Does visiting the Ganges make a person a better Hindu?

Christianity:

Is forgiveness always possible for Christians?