St Bede C of E
Primary School
Growing Together
YEAR 4
St. Bede Online Learning Strategy – March 2020 – Year 4
This online learning strategy has been created to enable students to continue their education if they are away from St. Bede CE Primary School.
This strategy is designed to:
- Ensure the well-being and safety of children and staff.
- Provides a series of lessons and associated resources to support children’s learning.
- Ensures a consistent approach across the school with clear expectations for children,
parents and staff.
-supports families to enable them to continue distance learning.
All children will have the opportunity to take part in a range of activities that have been carefully created by their teachers.
Useful Websites
Website | Useful for… | An example |
Reading | ||
COMPUTER FREE | Make sure to read your reading book for at least 15 minutes every day. You could keep a record of what you have read or what you think might happen next. Make sure to occasionally read with an adult too. |
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Listening to a range of stories. Oliver will be reading a range of stories and uploading them to his website from: 16.03.20 |
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Wonderful, free resources with accompanying comprehension task ideas. |
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An online digital library with a free 30-day trial period. |
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Image prompts that can be used to teach reading skills, prompt creative writing and more! |
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Writing | ||
COMPUTER FREE | Fortunately/Unfortunately – great for generating ideas for a story. Think of a main character and a setting, then write sentences that start alternately with fortunately and unfortunately. | Up on a hillside, stood an enormous castle. Inside, lived a gallant knight and his trusty steed, Martin. Unfortunately, Martin had lost his powerful neigh… |
COMPUTER FREE | Find a picture in a newspaper/magazine and write a setting description/story that matches it. NB: Give yourself a target feature to include (fronted adverbials/similes etc) |
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COMPUTER FREE | Spelling Practise. Continue to practise how to spell words from the year 3/4 word list (found in your homework journals). What new strategies can you think of that will help? |
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A BBC website to help with different spelling patterns. NB: Scroll to find the pattern that you are thinking about. |
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Choose a spelling rule then choose to either practise the spelling or take a test with those words. All words are read aloud (make sure your sound is turned up) and provided within a sentence for context. |
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One picture. One teaching resource. Every day. Great for inference discussions and story starting ideas. |
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Maths | ||
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COMPUTER FREE | Roll a dice (or create some digit cards) a number of times to create 2 different numbers. Then use these numbers within a formal written method. Addition = 4-digit numbers Subtraction = 4-digit numbers Multiplication = 3-digit by a 1-digit Division = 3-digit by a 1-digit CHALLENGE = Think of a target answer. How close can you get? What if you change the place value column of the digits? |
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Recall multiplication and division facts for all times tables. Customisable to suit whichever times table you are focussing on.
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Targeted times tables practise. Sound check is great to get a feel of what the Multiplication Tables Check will be like at the end of the year.
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Generates differentiated fluency questions across a range of maths topics. NB: Find the area you want to study in the drop down. NB: Set the difficulty no higher than 5. |
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https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=3 | Educational website with links to maths games that cover a broad range of topics. Most are customisable to suit your level of confidence. NB: Scroll to select a game.
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Fantastic website with differentiated daily maths questions that cover a range of maths areas. KS2 questions in a range of difficulties.
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Very short bursts that cover a different learning objective every day. |
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