Year 4
Welcome to Year 4's Page
Our class teacher is Miss Williams. Our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Webb.
Our PE days are Monday and Friday. Reading records and homework are due on Mondays and given out again on Tuesdays.
We hope you find this page useful for keeping up to date with your child's learning in Year 4. We have recently updated our curriculum maps in December 2023 so there may be some variations to the order in which we teach our topics.
Please feel free to use the knowledge organisers to ask your child questions about their learning and whether they know the meanings of any of the vocabulary.
Our recommended reads are chosen from high quality texts that may either be engaging for your child to read or have read to them.
Year 4 Curriculum Map
Year 4 Long Term Maths Plan
Meet the Teacher Presentation
Recommended Reads
Knowledge Organisers
Our learning this term ....
This half term in Maths we will looking at a variety of different topics. We will be looking at short division, telling the time and negative numbers. Towards the end of the half term we will be moving onto angles, triangles and coordinates.
This half term in English we are reading ‘Marcy and the riddle of the sphinx’ and our writing will be based on Ancient Egypt. We will be writing a diary entry from the perspective of Marcy and also creating our own instructions on how to mummify a body. Towards the end of this half term we will have the opportunity to create our own adventure story similar to the text we have been looking at in class.
Our focus in History is the Ancient Egyptians. We will be learning about the importance of the River Nile, as well as looking at different Egyptian artefacts and how they help us learn about the past. We will also be learning about the way of life in Egypt and Egyptian tombs, pyramids and burial sites.
In Science our topic is ‘The digestive system’ we will be learning about the stages of the human digestive system and what we can learn from poo! We will also be learning about our teeth and their specific functions.
In our reading sessions we will be focussing on the story ‘How to train your dragon’. We will be practicing our dictionary skills and using the new words we have learnt in our own written work.
During our Computing lessons, we will be learning how to program on the website scratch. We will be creating our own games by designing, creating and modifying.
In Art we will be exploring a variety of different artists and learn how to interpret and analyse their work. We will have the opportunity to recreate some famous artwork.
We will be starting our hockey topic in PE, we will be developing our skills of sending and receiving the ball accurately, dribbling to beat a defender and attacking to move towards the goal. We will also learn how to play cricket. We will be developing over and under arm throwing, fielding techniques and applying these skills to a mini class tournament.
In PSHE we will be continuing our work on our relationships. We will be looking at strategies to deal with jealousy and ‘falling out’ with each other. We will also be discussing memories of people we love, but no longer see as well as celebrating our relationships with important people and animals in our lives.