Transcript Welcome to the Year 6 Workshop

Welcome to the Year 4
Workshop
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
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?
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
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?
Sandwiches
Drinks
Cheese £1.45 milk 55p
tuna £1.70
cola 45p
salad £1.20
juice 65p
Fruit
apple15p
pear 20p
melon 25p
Shereen buys a tuna sandwich, milk and a pear.
How much does she pay?
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
Writing skills
• 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
• 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.
As Historians we will be studying the Romans
who settled in our country in the first century.
Revolutionary Romans!
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
As enterprising people
we will:
Investigate and
experience trading .
Environment
Spiritual and moral
Communities
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.
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!
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.