Year 4
WELCOME YEAR 4s AND PARENTS/CARERS!
Welcome to our Year 4 page. We will keep this page updated with key news and information about our curriculum.
Core notices:
Any notices that are urgent or really important we will display here each week.
Multiplication Assessments – Post Half-Term
Multiplication assessments will commence after the half-term break. Further information has been shared via ParentMail. Please find below a link from the Department for Education outlining how the assessments will be conducted. Additionally, we have included several helpful website links that children can use to support their preparation.
Home - Times Tables Rock Stars
Times tables games - Learn them all here!
Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds
16/05/25 For science homework this week there are two knowledge organisers here.
Slides from the CURRICULUM EVENING LINK CLICK HERE
(please take some time to read if you were unable to make it)
-With regards to the residential, we collected hundreds of photos of the children. We've been thinking hard about the best way to share these with parents and we think we have an idea! We're going to make a movie with a compilation of the photos and videos and invite the children and parents in to watch it. We will confirm the date closer to the time on parent mail. We will also get the children to make a homemade photo frame where we will stick a photo of the whole group who went in the middle of it as a souvenir of their trip.
-Ukuleles every Monday.
-Please ensure that any outstanding payment for either swimming, residential and/or the Lunt fort trip is settled as soon as possible.
Key Documents
Overview of year- click
- VIPERS reading comprehension - Literacy Shed Plus - Literacy Shed Plus - Teaching Resources Made Easy
- Reading list - Books for Year 4 children aged 8-9 | School Reading List
If you missed the curriculum evening, please have a look through the ppt by clicking here. Feel free to arrange a chat if there is anything you wish to discuss further.
Spelling:
Below is an overview of the core spellings we learn this year:
PE and Swimming:
Our day for indoor PE is Tuesday afternoon. On this day, children can come to school in their PE kit. During the Autumn term, children will be taken swimming in blocks of 4 weeks to assess their skills and find out who may need extra sessions later in the year and in year 5. Mr Healey/ Mr Parker's class will be going first for 4 weeks (commencing the second week back), followed by Miss Smyton's class for the 4 weeks after. During the block where a class is going swimming there will be no indoor PE those weeks for that class as swimming will take its place. Swimming will always be a Monday afternoon regardless of which class is going. There will be a separate letter which goes home about swimming.
Our day for outdoor PE is Friday. On this day, children can also come to school wearing their outdoor PE kit and remain in their kit for the day.
Homework and Spellings
Homework will be set on a Monday and will be due in on the following Monday.
Spellings will also be set on a Monday and will be tested on the following Monday.
Reading Diaries
Children are encouraged to read at least three times a week with an adult. Teachers will check reading diaries weekly in order to check that children are reading regularly. Reading diaries will be checked on a Monday and those reading 3x or more with an adult at home each week will be entered into a reading raffle for small prizes.
Times tables practise
We encourage weekly practise of timetables. There are regular tournaments and challenges which we set the children through the Times Tables Rockstars website -Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com). Children should be familiar with this from year 3, but we will provide new log ins/ passwords to those who have lost or forgotten them. Teachers can use this website to set individualised timetables for each child to practise based on their performance in weekly class assessments.
R.E. and P.S.H.E
Over the course of the year we will develop a deeper understanding of the different faiths (see the long term plan, under curriculum for more information). We will be organising a visit to a Mandir in the Spring term. In P.S.H.E. lessons, children will be covering topics regarding staying safe in the wider world and dealing with increased responsibility as they get older.
PIimsolls
It is really important that every child has a pair of indoor shoes that they are able to change into when in the classroom. As we get further into the term and the weather changes, the playground and outdoor spaces will become much wetter and muddier. Having a pair of indoor shoes will ensure that the classrooms stay clean and comfortable environments for the children to learn in.
Week beginning:
Monday 9th June
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Literacy: This week, we will begin our next literacy unit based on the powerful picture book The Flood by Álvaro F. Villa. This wordless text offers a wonderful opportunity for students to develop their inference and prediction skills by interpreting the story through its illustrations alone. This book will also complement our Geography topic on natural disasters, helping children make meaningful cross-curricular connections as they explore the impact of such events on people and places. |
Maths: This week we will continue shape. Focus this week: Consolidating angles and exploring features of different types of triangle.
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Geography- Introducing the features of a volcano Science: Building simple series circuit. PE: Indoor PE: Yoga Outdoor PE: Athletics PHSE: How to support others ICT: Last lesson coding microbits. Next, we will be looking at coding to make simple games on scratch. DT: Introducing design brief and looking at uses of torches (making links to our natural disasters topic, searching for survivors of earthquakes) |
Monday 16th June
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Literacy:
Continuing our unit on The Flood by Álvaro F. Villa. This week will be exploring body language and dialogue from the inferences we made last week. We will be recapping the punctuation rules of direct speech.
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Maths: This week we will try to conclude our topic on shape. We will be looking at quadrilaterals, polygons and lines of symmetry. |
Geography: Looking at reasons why people would choose to live near a volcano. ICT: Scratch coding Science: Looking at circuit symbols and creating circuit diagrams. PE: Indoor PE: Gymnastics Outdoor PE: Athletics PHSE: Everyone's welcome unit. Acceptance. DT- Electrical systems. Analysing components of a working torch.
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Take a look at our curriculum in action.
Romans
We had an amazing Roman day at Lunt Fort. We learnt about the life of a Roman Legionary and even had a go at different shield formations.
Making Roman heads of Caesar and sketching faces.
