Is it better to adapt or stay the same?

How has the world changed Thanet? 

Welcome to our final term of the year and of being in Year 4. We have so many lovely trips to look forward to and even Sports Day. Year 4 Sports Day will be Friday 30th June. 

English

This term we are writing our own piece of persuasive writing in the form of a Holiday Brochure, trying to encourage tourists to visit our lovely Broadstairs. We will be using our own personal experiences to inform our Brochure and will be partaking in trips to Crampton Tower, Viking Bay beach and Salt of the Earth. Also, we will be writing our own Newspaper articles for this. We ask children to bring their reading books in as often as they can, and please encourage them to read daily and books will be checked Mondays and Thursdays, 

Maths

This term we will be moving on from Decimals and developing the children's knowledge of Money and Time. We will be focusing on estimating money, calculating money, calculation problems as well as converting time from analogue to digital and looking at 12 hr and 24hr clocks.  The Week commencing the 5th June the children will all complete a Government Year 4 Timestable test, this will be done in a calm and non-test like manner using an ipad, similar to their daily TTRS. We do ask that children still practise their times tables on a regular basis. Children are encouraged to do their Times Tables Rockstars or Numbots at home. 

Topic

Our Topic this term is Broadstairs, our local area and how it has adapted over time. We will look at the History of the Broadstairs compared to now, famous visitors to Broadstairs and we will locate points of interest on a map.  We will focus on our map reading skills, identifying a key and symbols used for a map. In PSHE we will be continuing to take part in an NHS research project where the children will take part in lessons from the CUES programme - and an opportunity to generate and normalise conversation about the NHS, mental health and the importance of looking after ourselves. For Art, we will be looking at the work of Turner, with the hope to visit the Turner Contemporary. 

Science

Our Science this term is Sound We will be learning that sound gets fainter as the distance from the sound source increases, identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating and find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.