Leamington Community Primary School
Home and School Working Together
Year 4B and 4C
Summer Term 1
Geography topic – Why were the Norman castles certainly not bouncy?
Science topic – How would we survive without water?
Literacy:
We will begin the term by starting a brand new
topic which is called ‘Stories from other
cultures’. During this topic we will explore a
range of these stories and identify the key
features before having the opportunity to plan
and write our own story from another culture.
We will then be moving onto our ‘Explanation
texts’ topic in which we will explore this text
type before planning and writing our own
explanation text about the water cycle.
What you can do at home;
Listen to me read every night as this is very
important! Ask me lots of questions about what I
read to make sure I have understood the text.
To help me with our ‘stories from other cultures’
topic, ask me about texts I have read and the key
features of this text. Allow opportunities for me
to practice writing e.g. character descriptions,
describing settings and writing short stories.
To help with our ‘Explanation texts’ topic, ask me
about this text type and allow opportunities for
me to practice explaining and writing explanations.
Numeracy:
What you can do at home:
We will begin our new term by learning how to read
and plot co-ordinates (x and y axis). We will then
move onto reading data from a pictogram and
creating our own pictogram. We will also read data
from bar charts and line graphs, gather our own
data and finally construct our own bar chart and
line graph.
Ask me to read and plot co-ordinates. Ask me to
interpret data and ask questions about a range of
bar charts and line graphs. Allow opportunities
for me to interpret data on a pictogram, gather
my own data and construct my own pictogram.
Science:
Our Science topic this half term is ‘How could we
survive without water?’ We will explore states of
matter – solids, liquids and gases and carry out
various investigations to identify how materials
change state. We will focus on processes such as;
melting, solidifying, boiling, evaporating, and
condensing. We will also create a model of the
water cycle and explain this in a presentation.
What you can do at home:
Please ensure that your child reads every
night and completes any homework set by the
teacher in homework books on a Friday, and
returns it to school by the Wednesday of the
following week.
Year 4: P.E. is on a Wednesday!
Please ensure your child brings their kit and
suitable footwear for both indoors and
outdoors (depending on the weather!)
Ask me about what I have learnt in school each
week.
Explore processes at home such as – what happens
to the water in the kettle when it is heated?
What happens to water when it is placed in the
freezer? Why does the mirror steam up in the
bathroom?