YEAR 4

WELCOME TO YEAR 4

Our Year 4 class teachers are Mr Akram (4A) and Mr Cooke (4C). Our teaching assistants are Mrs Jarrett and Mrs Omar.

A key part of Year 4 is to develop the children's independence, both at home and at school, ready for Upper Key Stage 2. This is achieved through a wide variety of interesting and exciting topics and other trips and activities.

One of the most important aspects of this year is children's increasing confidence in what they can achieve at school. Your child will be encouraged to start to think about their own learning. They need to make decisions on how to present work, how and when to complete homework and how to learn best.

Children often ask questions and their teaching will encourage them to think for themselves too. Could they answer the question themselves? Can they make that choice? If they can, then they are learning skills which are vital for Year 5, Year 6 and beyond.

Year 4 will need their PE kit on _ & _.

MATHS OVERVIEW

Every maths lesson begins with a mental arithmetic starter, recapping previously taught content and daily skills.

The lessons are then taught in unit blocks, which build on one another.

Every unit has the opportunity for children to become fluent in a skill before applying their knowledge to a variety of problems and reasoning questions.

ENGLISH OVERVIEW

At the heart of our English planning, teaching and learning, we use high quality and age appropriate texts.

You can see some of the books for Year 4 here!

The teaching of grammar is explicit and contextualised to the book children are reading. Explicit teaching of reading comprehension is part of the teaching sequence and daily English lessons.

Children in Year 4 are taught to write complete compositions with increased independence. We aim to use modelled and shared teaching approaches throughout the teaching sequences to support all children's learning.

Spelling and handwriting are taught discreetly and are planned for as part of the lesson.

If you would like to see the writing outcomes for Year 4, follow the link below to the Writing Page.

Writing Outcomes

SCIENCE OVERVIEW

Every science lesson begins with a vocabulary starter, recapping previously taught content and scientific skills.

The lessons are then taught in unit blocks, which build on one another.

Every unit has the opportunity for children to build on and develop their abilities as a scientist.

TOPIC OVERVIEW

Year 4 have six topics that are based on an area of History or Geography. At the end of every half term, children also have an Art or DT unit based on their topic. Children will have the opportunity to learn new skills and knowledge across these subjects, building on them every year.

Children begin and end every learning challenge with a big question. The topic then unfolds as the children work to uncover the answer to the big question and ultimately create a final response to it such as a piece of writing, a project or art work.

Our topics in Year 4 are: