Year 4
Year 4 Project - Ancient Civilisations
In the Ancient Civilisations project, your child will learn about three of the earliest civilisations in the world; ancient Sumer, ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley civilisation. They will study the ancient Sumerian and ancient Egyptian civilisation in detail, to discover how crucial factors like water sources and farming helped them to develop and thrive. They will find out about important inventions and the growth of cities. They will also study the lives of different people in society, including the roles of kings and pharaohs. The children will reflect on their learning by identifying the similarities and differences between the two civilisations, before studying the Indus Valley civilisation independently. They will explore sources of evidence about the location of the Indus Valley, cities and trade, and note the reasons why historians know less about the Indus Valley than other ancient civilisations.
Memorable Experience - What is a civilisation?
History - Features of civilisations; Ancient Sumer; Ancient Egypt; Indus Valley civilisation; Artefacts; Timelines; New inventions and technology; Everyday life; Social hierarchy; Significant leaders; End of ancient civilisations
This project is also supported by mini projects in:
Science: Electrical circuits and conductors
Art and Design: Islamic Art
Design and Technology: Tomb Raiders
Computing: derived from D.A.R.E.S
Music: derived from Kapow
PE: Lacrosse and Athletics derived from TeamThemeKent Resources
PSHE: derived from Jigsaw
RE: derived from Kent SACRE Curriculum and Cornerstones RE projects
More information about the Year 5 Curriculum can be found in the YEAR 4 Long Term Plan 2024 document found below.
Year 4 Key Information
In Year 4 PE lessons are timetabled for Tuesday (Cricket) and Thursday (Fencing).
Please make sure that earrings are removed or taped prior to the lesson. Please also make sure PE kits include waterproof shoes and outdoor kit (jogging bottoms and jumpers) as we will be outside in all weathers. Please also provide socks if your child wears tights.
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English
W/c 230/6/2025
This week we will complete our final independant write of the academic year. We will draft, edit and rewrite a holiday brochure to persuade - recapping on our key techniques taught over the last few weeks (e.g emotive language, positive adjectives, similes, alliteration and use of data and slogans)
We will then finish the week consolidating our SPaG knowledge by marking and correcting a previous SPaG assessment.
Spellings - 'g' Phoneme
For dictation on Wednesday 9th June
Acorns and Conkers
August
begin
great
again
together
bigger
shrugging
guest
guide
fatigue
tongue
ghost
yoghurt
Pine Cones
guest
guard
guide
guessed
league
tongue
colleague
plague
vague
fatigue
ghost
spaghetti
ghastly
yoghurt
example
exact
exam
exotic
Additional Notes
Please continue to support your child by listening to them read at home. Please record this in their reading records.
Your child can also access Ed Shed for both spellings and Grammar arcade.
There are a range of catchy clips online to support learning. This week we have been looking at subordinating conjunctions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2Gyto5gTQ
Maths
W/c 30/6/2025
This week we continue with our 'Shape' unit. We will look at:
- triangles
- quadrilaterals
- polygons
- symmetry; and
- creating symmetric figures
We will also complete our End of unit assessment and our pre assessment for statistics.
Please continue practising telling the time (analogue and digital) with your child at home.
We will also continue our Times Tables fluency which can be supported at home by accessing TT Rockstars.
'Hit the button' (https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button) is also a good site for fluency in multiplication and division facts.
Or try out some catchy multiplication songs on Youtube. Here is a good one to support our in class fluency sessions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7rYbk9PNuM
Additional Information
On Wednesday 2nd July we will be concluding our Ancient Civilisation unit by mummifying our teddies. Please send your child in with a small teddy (between 15 and 30cm) to complete this activity.
In Term 6 PE will take place on Tuesday (Cricket) and Thursday (Fencing). Please make sure that all weather PE kits (waterproof shoes, spare socks etc) are in school for these days.
Please send your child in with a sun hat and bottle as well as a lightweight waterproof coat (we all know the British weather can be changable). Please make sure suncream is applied before the school day.
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This week's homework is;
- Read for at least 15 minutes everyday with an adult. Please record any reading completed at home in the reading record.
- Revise spellings on Spelling Shed.
Please also access Doodle, TT and Numbots regularly to help consolidate classroom learning for Maths.
All log in details are in reading records.
To check which book level your book from home is, use:
https://www.arbookfind.co.uk/UserType.aspx?RedirectURL=%2fdefault.aspx
You can complete quizzes on school books and books that you are reading/bring in from home.