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.

 

 

Y4 Ancient Civilisations HOME LEARNING
Y4 Ancient Civilisations KNOWLEDGE ORGANISER

Year 4 Key Information

LONG TERM PLAN Year 4 2024 2025
YEAR 4 Maths Curriculum (1)
YEAR 4 English Curriculum (1)

Recommended Reading List For Year 4

In Year 4 PE lessons are timetabled for Wednesday (Athletics) and Friday (Lacrosse).

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 12/5/2025

This week we will be working on our 'Girl and Robot' unit.  

 

We will complete and edit our diary entried before looking at the features and purpose of robots.  We will use technical vocabulary to evaluate robot designs before moving on to design and create our own junk model robot.

This will then lead into instruction writing during w/c 19th May.

 

Spellings from Tuesday 6th May 2025 - 'D' and 'V' phonemes

Dictation will be on Tuesday 13th May 2025

Acorns

bad

bed

dark

did

dog

door

duck

odd

adding

end

gave

live

five

have

river

 

Conkers

spend

ditch

sudden

adding

hidden

should

would

could

aide

solve

have

give

five

of

 

Pine Cones

wagged

tagged

sobbed

jogged

rolled

should

would

could

aide

blonde

horde

of

skivvy

savvy

revving

 

Additional Notes

Please continue to suppport 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 12/5/2025

This week we will be working on our Decimals unit.  We will

  • Recap partitioning decimals
  • Compare decimals
  • Order decimals
  • Round decimals to the nearest whole number; and
  • Consider how we can represent half and quarter using decimals.

 

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 fluencey 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

Our class assembly is at 2.45 on Thursday 15th May.  We look forward to sharing our adventures with you.

 

In Term 5 PE will take place on Wednesday (Athletics) and Friday (Lacrosse).  Please make sure that all weather PE kits (waterproof shoes, spare socks etc) are in school for these days.

 

We understand that the weather is improving but it is still very changable so please ensure your child  brings a coat daily.

 

 

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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.