Welcome to the Year 4 Workshop

1. Welcome to the Year 4 Workshop

2. 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

3. Numeracy Key skills • Partition, round and order four digit numbers E.g. Circle the number nearest to 1000. 1060 1049 1100 960 899 • Use positive and negative numbers in context E.g. The temperature inside an aeroplane is 20°C. The temperature outside the aeroplane is –30°C. What is the difference between these temperatures?

4. Numeracy Key skills • Add and subtract pairs of multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 e.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

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

6. 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?

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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.

13. Revolutionary Romans! 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. Enterprise Environment Spiritual and moral Communities As enterprising people we will: Investigate and experience trading . As people concerned with our environment we will: Explore how the Romans changed the way communities lived and were organised.  We will: Explore our own buried treasure – finding out about our own and each other’s hidden talents Explore what light and dark mean to us and others. We will: Find out about people who have settled in our community.

14. Details of Visit Colchester Castle Museum Opportunity to learn more about Roman life in Essex and about Boudicca. Friday 7th October Watch out for letter in bookbags soon!

15. 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.