Year 4 2025
Welcome to Year 4
Mr Anderson and Mrs Parkhouse make up our Year 4 team this year
Spring Term 2026
Maths
This half term we will be connecting multiplication and division, with particular reference to our 11 and 12 times tables. Learning our approach to division with remainders and multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.
We will also continue our focus on the times tables from 2 to 12, embedding this learning with our six second game, TTRS and side top meet approach in school and at home.
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
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 Physical maps of France and England, with reference to their mountains and rivers. Learning the eight points of a compass and the four figure grid reference. Our science this term will be the Classification and changing habitats. Sorting animals and plants based on shared characteristics, differentiating animals with backbones and recognizing how environments change seasonally, or due to natural events like flooding, fire, or earthquakes.
Autumn Term 2025
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 be learning that there is ten 100’s in a thousand and that a thousand is 10 times the size of 100.Understanding the place value of 4 digit numbers and rounding them to the nearest 10/100. Dividing 1000 by 2,4,5 and 10.
Theme
We begin with our focus on PSHE where the children will be exploring and achieving their aspirations for Year 4 and the future. Exploring our ‘Happy Minds’ with mindfulness.
Our Geography focus will be comparing and contrasting similarities and differences with inner city life and that of life in a rural environment. Also learning basic map skills using co-ordinates.
In Art we will be focusing on the artist ‘Henry Moore’.
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