Year 4 Year Group Page
🌟 Welcome to Year 4 with Mr Lyons and Mandy! 🌟
Hello everyone and a big Year 4 welcome from Mr Lyons and Mandy!
We’re so excited to be your guides on this year’s learning adventure. Expect plenty of laughter, curiosity and creativity!
Year 4 is all about growing in confidence, stretching our imaginations, and discovering just how much fun learning can be. We’ll work hard, celebrate often and make every day count.
Curriculum Overview
English
🍂 Our Autumn Adventures! This term, we’ll be diving headfirst into three brilliant books:
- Varjak Paw by S.F Said - an adventure coming of age story about a cat who goes on a journey to learning an ancient martial art - the Way
- Wombat Goes Walkabout by Jackie French –
a heartwarming Australian tale about friendship and courage
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl – a golden ticket to imagination, creativity and chocolatey fun!
🌸 From the Spring term we will be expanding into historical fiction and a variety of other books including:
- Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit - a book based in the Roman era about the eruption of Mount Versuvius
Through these stories, we’ll explore fictional and non-fiction writing, playing with a range of text types. We’ll also be polishing our handwriting and building beautiful sentence coordination to help everyone become fluent, confident writers.
📖 Here is a list of suggested books that are suitable for children ages 8 - 9:
https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/recommended-reads/year-4/
Maths
In maths, we’ll be sharpening those arithmetic skills and building rock-solid foundations for future problem-solving.
Our focus areas include:
- Mastering times tables
- Practising formal written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
- Strengthening our understanding of division facts
🧮 By June, we’ll be fully prepped for the Multiplication Tables Check as well!
Important Dates & Events
Swimming Fortnight 💦
Monday 13th October – Friday 24th October
We’ll be swimming every afternoon, so don’t forget your things!
PE Days 🥎
Mondays and Thursdays
Trips
Friday 14th November - School trip to the Natural History Museum
Classroom Life
In our classroom, learning and laughter go hand in hand.
We:
- Celebrate hard work and kindness with Marble Jar Treats
- Sometimes write raps (Mr Lyons can’t help himself)
- Sing songs to remember tricky topics
- Hand out Weekly Awards for amazing effort, attitude, and achievement
- Offer prizes when you hit 50 Dojo Points
Support for Parents/Carers
Your support makes a huge difference! Here’s how you can help at home:
Reading 📚
Aim for 20 minutes of daily reading and jot down what’s been read in your child’s Reading Record. Little and often really adds up!
Times Tables Practice ✖️
To prepare for the Multiplication Tables Check, we ask for five minutes a day of practice
Homework is given out on a Thursday and expected back on the following Tuesday. 10 spellings are given out each week that follow specific spelling patterns and regularly include words from the Y3 / Y4 national spelling list. These are a variety of words that children in lower key stage two are expected to know before moving onto Year 5.
Learning Resources
📖CGP are excellent additional resources and a good investment for consolidating in class learning and extending your child:
✖️Practice for your MTC!
🎤Great songs and raps for learning grammar types:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbwwnj-Aki0MlZU8twWhT_zYMpdi4a0Cl
🌈A wonderful array of creative pictures with thought provoking questions to help improve inference:
https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/the-collections/the-inference-collection/
