Maths

Objectives

To understand hours, minutes and seconds.

To understand years, months, weeks and days.

Converting analogue to digital time- 12 hour and 24 hour clock.

To interpret charts- bar charts and pictograms.

To understand line graphs.

To understand turns and angles.

To compare and order angles.

To compare and classify shapes including quadrilaterals and triangles.

To identify lines of symmetry on shapes.

To complete symmetrical figures. 

*Children are required to know all 12 times tables by heart by the end of Y4. We practise them every day in class; please help your child learn them at home. To help practise them they can complete the activities on Times Table Rock Stars and Purple Mash.     

Topic: Electricity    

Objectives we will cover are: 

Identify common appliances that run on electricity.

Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers.

Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery. 

Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.

Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors. 

• Remember your reading book and planner every day.
  
  
• Please write in your child’s planner whenever you hear them read, this does not have to be their school reading book, it can be a library book, a book your child enjoys reading, etc. Remember there are example questions to ask them about their book in the planner. 
    
• Homework is set on Google Classroom as follows- English homework is set on Tuesday and due in Friday.  Maths homework is set on Friday and due in on a Tuesday.
  
  
• Spellings are put on Google Classroom on Fridays for a test the following Thursday.  
   
• P.E is on Thursdays and Fridays this half term. Children need to come to school in a plain navy blue or black tracksuit or school P.E t-shirt and navy blue shorts.Please remember to tie up long hair and take out earrings or provide plasters.  

• Please remember to bring a drink everyday- either water or squash.