Welcome to Year 4
Mr Anderson and Mrs Parkhouse make up our Year 4 Team
Spring Term 2025
English
This half term we will be exploring texts including ‘The Tunnel’ by Anthony Browne
Writing::
- To plan and write a narrative
- To create characters, a setting and plot in a narrative
- To use and maintain correct tense
- To use ambitious vocabulary
- To use Plural and Possessive ‘s’ appropriately.
- To identify and use main and subordinate clauses.
- To write a non-fiction recount
- To proof read and edit writing
Reading:
- Following our approach to a comprehension- Step by Step.
- Text interrogation-identifying main ideas drawn from more than 1 paragraph and summarizing.
- Focus on vocabulary, retrieval and inference - VIPERS
Maths
In our Maths work we will be learning Missing number problems, addition and subtraction calculations, greater than/ less than symbols and rounding to the nearest multiple. We will be encouraging the children to take ownership of their learning and discuss their own approaches to solving our Maths problems. We will continue to learn our times tables on a regular basis, it would be great if you could support with this at home.
Theme
In our theme work we will be focusing on Geography, where we will research and record our findings studying Rivers and Mountains. Looking specifically at the impact wolves have on rivers. Our science this term will be the States of Matter, researching and understanding Solids, Liquids and Gases.
Autumn Term 2024
English
English this term we will focus on the story ‘Minpins’ and will be writing our own creative version of the text. We will start by looking at the features of the story and enhancing the children’s writing through text interrogation.
Maths
We will start off the term focusing on place value; partitioning numbers, column addition, real life problems with measures. We will also focus on times tables.
Theme
We begin with our focus on PSHE where the children will be exploring and achieving their aspirations for Year 4 and the future.
Our Geography focus will be comparing and contrasting similarities and differences with inner city life and that of life in a rural environment.
Useful Websites:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/
www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/0/
www.topmarks.co.uk
www.ttrockstars.com
www.spag.com
www.readtheory.org
www.spellingframe.co.uk
www.mathsframe.co.uk