Welcome to Year 4. Our class teachers are Fiona Gargett (Tuesday- Friday) and Emma Howe (Monday). They are assisted by Joanna Grundy.
Useful documents for Year 4
Year 3 4 National Curriculum word list
Year 4 Long term overview 2024 – 25
Literacy
We will be using various texts in our literacy lessons to write stories, persuasive texts, information texts and recounts. We will also be reading Romans on the Rampage.
Reading
Children will:
Read a wide range of fiction and no- fiction, including poetry.
Talk confidently about a wide range of books read, retelling narratives, summarising information and offering opinions.
Talk about themes and conventions when discussing books
Understand the different reasons for reading – for pleasure / to find information, for example.
Select books based on own reading experiences and preferences
Talk about known authors.
Read independently with sustained concentration.
Offer inferences and predictions and explains rationale behind these, making reference to the text as appropriate.
Identify how language, structure and presentation contributes to meaning.
Recognise different forms of poetry.
Writing
Children will:
Attempt to make simple links between paragraphs.
Plan effectively for a range of writing.
Decisions about writing are based on awareness of audience and purpose.
Propose changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency.
Read aloud their own writing to a group or the whole class, using appropriate intonation and controls the tone and volume so that meaning is clear.
Mathematics
Children will be:
Continuing to learn about decimals. Ordering, comparing and rounding to the nearest whole number.
Adding and subtracting money and finding the correct change.
Recapping telling the time to 5 minutes, telling the time to the minute, using a.m and p.m. and the 24 hour clock. They will be learning how to convert analogue to digital.
Interpreting charts, interpreting line graphs and drawing line graphs.
Looking at properties of shapes by understanding that angles are turns, identifying angles, comparing angles, looking at triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons and lines of symmetry.
Describing position using coordinates and plotting coordinates.
Science
In science, children will be learning about materials and their properties. They will group materials and look at solids, liquids and gases. They will also investigate freezing and melting.
Geography
Children will be thinking about what happens when the land meets the sea and studying Britain’s coastlines.
R.E.
Children will be learning about good deeds and what Jesus taught people about being a good Samaritan.
Computing
Children will be programming a turtle as well as letters. Children will continue to work on their digital literacy skills as well as thinking carefully about e-safety.
P.E.
Children will be swimming this term as well as learning to play rounders.
PSHE
Children will think about how everyone is unique. They will also start to understand the word community.
In Year 4, we will complete a Multiplication test in June. This is a test of children’s understanding of their times tables from x2 up to x12. It would be great if you could help your child learn their times tables. There are lots of games on line like “Hit the Button” that make learning tables fun!
Maths Frame is a great tool to help children speed up for the test. They will receive 6 seconds per questions in June so the faster they can type the better!
Spellings– Each week the children will learn a new spelling rule. You could support your child with understanding these rules by helping them to practice them. You could do the look/cover/ write/ check method or even play games such as letter scramble (mix all the letters up and then put in the correct order) or hangman. Please use the spelling sheets on Tapestry each week to practice the relevant ones linked to the week’s work.
Keeping homework fun helps to engage your child and not add any pressure to home life.
If there is anything we can support, you with then please let us know.
Thank you!
Fiona and Joanna
