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Year 4 - IPC - Temples, Tombs and Treasures

Welcome back to Year Four!

Our exciting new IPC topic this half term is 'Temples, Tombs and Treasures', where we will be travelling back in time to explore ancient Egypt. We will be learning about the different gods and goddesses the ancient Egyptians worshipped, as well as the names of the most famous kings and queens at the time. We will be following renowned historians and archeologists from the past to uncover the treasures that lay within the ancient Egyptian tombs.

Maths

This half term, we will be exploring the properties of 2D shapes, as well as learning about different angles. We will be investigating lines of symmetry in 2D shapes, in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations. We will be focusing on the 9 times table this half term and will be exploring this through a range of activities.

English

Our Power of Reading book this half term is 'Secrets of a Sun King', written by Emma Carroll. The story follows a character called Lillian, who travels to Egypt in search of an ancient Egyptian canopic jar. Alongside learning about ancient Egypt, we will be using a range of sentence structures in our writing and learning about the structure, vocabulary and grammar used in a range of genres.

Science

Our Science topic this half term is 'sound'. We will be identifying how sounds are made, as well as recognising how sound is affected by distance. We will be conducting experiments in order to find patterns surrounding the pitch of and volume of a sound.