Category Archives: Year 4 blog

We have been learning to……

Analyse and Evaluate.

Generate a list of passions, interests and wonders.

Understand various definitions of the word “genius”.

Use RUCSAC to solve mathematical problems.

Write a beginning, middle and end of a story using key story writing features.

We have been learning to……

Communicate scientifically using diagrams and information.

Analyse and evaluate.

Evaluate our understanding of data handling.

Gather ideas to plan a story.

Create and describe a new character.

Create and describe a new setting.

Create and describe a problem.

We have been learning to……

Communicate scientifically using diagrams and information.

Analyse and Evaluate.

Use the key features to write a discussion text.

Evaluate a discussion text using success criteria.

Represent data using pictograms and extract and interpret the information.

Represent data using bar graphs and extract and interpret the information.

Use mode, mean, median and range to describe a data set.

We have been learning to……

Draw lines of symmetry.

Identify lines of symmetry.

Draw reflections of shapes in a mirror line.

Rotate shapes.

Find and understand the features of a discussion text.

Gather ideas to plan writing.

Communicate scientifically.

We have been learning to……

Evaluate a final draft of a diary entry using success criteria.

Develop reading skills.

Evaluate a scientific investigation.

Use eight compass points to describe direction.

Use coordinates to specify location.

Self-monitor.

We have been learning to……

Use direct comparisons when describing temperature.

Read temperatures readings and interpret readings above and below 0°C

Calculate temperature differences, including those involving temperature rise and fall across 0°C.

Self-monitor.

Explain results from a scientific investigation.

Use the features of a recount to write a diary entry.

We have been learning to……

Analyse and connect.

Identify the features of a recount in the form of a diary entry.

Gather ideas to plan writing.

Use a planning skeleton to plan a recount.

Use the features of a recount to write a first draft of a diary entry.

Understand past and present tense verbs.

Carry out a science investigation.

Recognise halves and quarters.

Find fractional quantities.

Find percentages of numbers.