Year 4

Welcome to Year 4!

Meet the Staff

Year 4L Teacher: Mrs Collins
Year 4H Teacher: Miss Heffernan
Teaching Assistants: Mr Davies and Miss Courtney

What You Need to Know

Y4C Class Leaflet

Y4M Class Leaflet 

Please send your child in their PE kit on Tuesdays for 4H and Fridays for 4C for PE lessons.

PE kit is a plain white t-shirt with dark trainers or pumps, and blue or black shorts. Plain black or blue tracksuit bottoms may be worn in the winter.

On Wednesdays, we have swimming lessons, so don’t forget to bring your kit and a towel!

Homework will be given on Fridays to reflect the week’s learning.

Children will also practice spellings for the Grand Spell each Friday, as well as their multiplication for the times tables test that takes place on Friday mornings.

Y4 Multiplication Check-June 2024

In year 4 the children complete a multiplication check. This  will be completed on a tablet/ipad and consist of the children answering 25 times tables facts (multiplication only) with 6 seconds to answer each one. There is no pass or fail mark but the children should be constantly learning and revising their times tables up to 12 times 12 as much as possible. Children will be practising in school on Times Tables Rockstars completing the 'Soundcheck'  as this is timed just like the multiplication check. If they could also practise at home on TT Rockstars this would be a great help. Please see the letter attached below which was handed out to parents with details of the check. 

Year 4 Autumn Curriculum Overview

English - We are looking at two books this term called 'Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters' and 'The Matchbox Diaries'. For 'Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters', we will be creating an additional scene for the story based on what we have learnt about the different characters and the main events in the story. In 'The Matchbox Diaries' we will be learning about the features of a diary entry so that we can write our own. During this term we will also explore some poetry and identify rhyming couplets, as well as performing poetry from 'Bright Bursts of Colour'.

Home Learning resources can be accessed through Class Dojo.

For extra resources, follow the links below:

EdShed

BBC Bitesize

Oak National Academy

PE with Joe

Books for Topics

Purple Mash

Reading books will be changed when the children have read them and they have been signed by an adult. Please make sure the children are reading regularly to practise their skills.

We encourage all our children to read for at least 10 minutes every day outside of the classroom.

If your child is enjoying a good book and you find them reading it anywhere they go, snap a picture and send it to us on Class Dojo!

What We Are Learning About - Autumn 1

In Maths, we are focusing on Place Value, in this topic we will be working with numbers in their thousands and we will be learning to read and write these numbers.

We will also look at Addition and Subtraction particularly  on using

formal methods of adding and subtracting as well as practising our speedy mental calculations for adding 1, 10, 100 and thousands to numbers.

Here at the links to practice at home:

T.T.Rockstars

BBC Supermovers

In Science, our topic will be the 'The Digestive System.' 

(see Science knowledge organiser for  details)

 In Geography, we will be looking at "The Americas"  

(see Geography knowledge organiser for details)

In Religion we will learning about the family of God in Scripture. This topic explores the truth that Jesus had a natural family with real people with names and a history.

In Music we will be learning about "Body Percussion" 

PE (Tuesdays and Fridays)  On Tuesdays (4H) we will be having Dance sessions. On Fridays PE sessions (4C ) will be provided by Little Sports coaches.

In Art we will be looking at the topic "Formal Elements of Art" and will produce work

using charcoal and printing techniques

In ICT we will be looking at Online Safety.