Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

Mr Anderson and Mrs Parkhouse make up our Year 4 Team

Summer Term 2025

English

This term Year 4 will be focusing on the book ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker’. Focusing on role play, planning a sequenced story, assessing their work and their peers. We will continue to look at various aspects of SPAG during our English sessions with a particular focus on inverted commas, using a greater variety of conjunctions and including possessive nouns. We will then turn to look at Bear Grylls and create our own instructional texts.

Maths

This term we will be looking at understanding and manipulating multiplicative relationships, using coordinates, fractions and fractions greater than 1.Times tables is an ongoing feature for Year 4. Please encourage your child to continue going on TT Rockstars or Hit The Button.

Theme

This half term we will be looking at Physical Geography. With a focus on volcanoes and earthquakes. We will be locating these key features across the world. We will then turn to examine Roman Britain in our history work. 

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

 

Year 4