Year 4

Welcome to Year 4!

Your teachers in Year 4 are Mrs Proffitt, Miss Andrews and Miss Yousef, supported by Miss Greaves, Mrs Beard, Mrs Chaplin and Mrs Wardle.

Our classes are split between Year 3 and Year 4. The curriculum topics below will be taught in the 25/26 academic year.

Our amazing themes are Raging Romans, Wild Earth, Ancient Greeks and When Land Meets Sea. We look forward to bringing these to life in the classroom and through our educational visits and visitors to school.

English

We explore a range of different genres including instructions, recounts, news reports, narratives and we even write our own myth. We also look at a variety of poems and stories by different authors including Paddington and Mr Stink.

Make sure you practise your spellings and your handwriting. Our spelling tests are always on a Friday.

Remember to read regularly and ask an adult to sign your Contact Book so that you can move up the reading challenge!

Maths

We will build on our mathematical skills and develop our strategies with problem solving, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will also be learning about Roman numerals and why our number system changed. By the end of Year 4, you need to know all of your times tables so make sure your practise lots at home! Weekly times tables tests are on a Friday. To practise your times tables regularly you can access Times Tables Rockstars (ttrockstars.com).

Music

In addition to our Music curriculum, we also learn how to play the violin. Our lessons are weekly and each class will learn the instrument which is lots of fun!

P.E

We learn a variety of sports and skills including gymnastics, dance, football, basketball, handball, dodgeball and athletics. Our P.E. days are Tuesday and Friday. Additionally, we will be attending swimming lessons on a Thursday afternoon.

Science

We continue to improve our scientific skills and knowledge across our four themes.

We will look at:

Sound
Electricity
Living Things and Their Habitats
States of Matter
The Digestive system

History, Geography, Music, Art and D&T will be taught through the four themes:

The Raging Romans – What did the Romans do for us?

Wild Earth - What makes the Earth angry?

Ancient Greece - Who were the Ancient Greeks?

Where Land Meets Sea- How are countries formed and how do they compare?

At home, try to;

Get into a Home Learning routine.
Sit quietly and read - remember to ask an adult to update your Home School Contact Book.
Learn those tricky spellings.
Play games to remember your tables (we’ll be learning up to 12 x 12!).
Complete three Home Learning Challenges each half term.
Access Seesaw to keep up to date with school information.

BY WORKING TOGETHER, WE MAKE OUR LEARNING FUN!