Brownhill Primary School

Year 4

Information for Parents

Summer Term 2009

Learning at Brownhill

During the next few weeks I will be covering the work listed below.

Please help me by talking to me at home about my work.

English 

Issues and dilemmas.

Stories from other cultures.

Poetry of a variety of forms.

Discussion texts – letters, reports and debates.

Persuasion texts – adverts, circulars, letters, fliers, posters etc.

 

I will also need to read my book and learn my spellings.


Mathematics

Place value, ordering and

 rounding numbers

Understanding addition and

 subtraction

Measures – weight and capacity.

Handling data.

Properties of numbers.

Multiplication and division.

Fractions and decimals. 

Shape and space.

 Please encourage your child to use metric measurements – particularly for their own height and weight.

 

Other Subjects

Please help me with my own research work for some of these subjects.

This will help to add to the things I have learned in school.

 

Moving and growing.

Habitats.

 

Religions in our

neighbourhood.

 

Databases. 

 

Modelling effects on screen.