Welcome to Year 4
Leopards - Miss Wild
Honey Bees - Miss Martin
Sea Otters - Miss Coldwell
Y4 Teaching Assistants - Miss Westwood
Hello! Welcome to the Year 4 class page. Here you will find key information about the Year 4 curriculum, important dates and expectations of the children.
Spring 1
In Spring 1, our topic will be ‘Amazing Amazon’.
In English, we will be focussing on the text “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory”. We will be producing a variety of writing for example, a setting description, an advertisement in the form of an Instagram post and a character description. We are focussing on shorter writing tasks to ensure that KS1 and KS2 SPaG elements are correctly and consistently used where appropriate.
In maths, we will continue to learn about multiplication and division. We will be focussing on multiplying 3 numbers together accurately, finding factors, choosing efficient methods to work out a multiplication calculation, multiplying 2 digits by 1 digit using column multiplication and multiplying 3 digits by 1 digit again using column multiplication. Then, we shall move onto dividing 2 digits by 1 digit. After we have completed our multiplication and division unit we will be moving onto fractions. We will recap some Y3 knowledge on unit and non unit fractions before looking at tenths, equivalent fractions, fractions over 1, counting in fractions, adding/subtracting fractions, subtraction from a whole and calculating fractions of an amount.
‘Amazing Amazon’ where we will be completing an in depth study of Brazil. This will also include an overview of the continent of South America. We will look at poverty and the need for industrial growth to frame the exploitation of the Amazon Rainforest. Conservation will also be introduced which provides a background for later learning.
In art, we will be completing an artist study on Henri Rousseau and creating some mixed media artwork inspired by South America. In RE, we will be looking at Hinduism. We will be learning about classification in science, which is linked with our class trip to the Butterfly House.
Key vocabulary pupils will learn through this topic can be found in the table below.
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Climate Countries Capital cities Equator Andes mountain range Southern / Northern Hemisphere. |
Urban Rural Human Physical Climate Rainforest Festivals |
Canopy Emergent Understorey |
Deforestation Indigenous Intensive farming Palm oil Logging Climate change Global warming
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Spring 2
Our topic for Spring 2 is… ‘Brilliant Biomes!’
In English, we will be focussing on the text “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory”. We will be producing a variety of writing for example, a setting description, an advertisement in the form of an Instagram post and a character description. We are focussing on shorter writing tasks to ensure that KS1 and KS2 SPaG elements are correctly and consistently used where appropriate.
In maths, we will continue looking at fractions. We will then introduce decimals for the first time. Whilst learning about decimals we shall focus on: recognising tenths/hundredths, look at tenths and decimals, tenths on a place value grid, tenths on a numberline. After this we will move onto hundredths, hundredths as decimals and hundredths on a place value grid. We will finish our decimals unit by dividing 1 digit numbers by 10, 2 digit numbers by 10 and 1 or 2 digits by 100.
We will be learning all about the different biomes around the world and how they are affected based on their location around the world. We will discover what animals and plants live in these biomes and how they can be adapted to survive in often extreme conditions!
Key vocabulary pupils will learn through this topic can be found in the table below.
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Biome Habitat |
Tundra/Desert Temperate forest |
Climate Taiga |
Savannah Aquatic |
Detailed planning can be found on the subject pages under the Curriculum tab.
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Important Information
Honeybee’s PE day will be on Monday and Friday.
Leopards PE days will be on Tuesday and Friday.
Sea Otters PE days will be on Tuesday and Thursday.
Please make sure your child’s P.E kit is in school on these days and labelled with their name and class.
Swimming
In Y4 the national curriculum states all pupils are entitled to swimming lessons. Ours will take place every Thursday. This term will be Honeybees. Children are expected to bring their kit weekly. Details of this has been shared with the relevant classes.
Spellings
Your child’s spellings will be stuck in their planner and our weekly spelling test will be on a Friday.
Timestables
We place great importance on times tables throughout school but especially in Year 4 as the children will have the multiplication times tables check in June. We will provide your child with a login for TTRockstars and we would like children to practise at least 3 times a week.
Dates for your diary
Autumn 1 - Craft Afternoon - Wednesday 15th October 1:30pm
- Roman Workshop in school - Wednesday 24th September 2025
- School’s Library Service Roman Workshop in School - Tuesday 7th October 2025
Autumn 2 - Christmas Concert - Wednesday 10th December 2:00pm
Spring 1 - Parent Workshop - Thursday 22nd January 2:30pm
Spring 2 - Craft Afternoon - Friday 20th March afternoon – 1:15pm (early start)
Summer 1 - Parent Workshop - Wednesday 29th April 2:30pm
- 27th April 2026 – School’s Library Service Viking Workshop in School
Summer 2 - Showcase - Friday 3rd July 2:15pm
- The first 2 weeks of June starting from Monday 1st June 2026 – Multiplication times table check.
Home Learning
Each half term we will send out a home learning bingo grid with tasks for you to complete at home. Here are this half term’s challenges for you to try.
Spring 1
Spring 2
Other home learning activities are
- Read to an adult at least 4 times a week and record this in your home learning book- you will get extra break for reading 4x a week ONLY if your planner is signed.
- Practise your spellings. Can you use each spelling in a sentence? Can you give the definition of each spelling?
- Practise all times tables up to 12 x 12. Can you answer quick fire questions in and out of order? Go on Mathsframe and try to beat your score out of 25. Have a go on TTRockstars and climb the class leader board.
Useful websites
- Times Table Rock Stars - https://ttrockstars.com/
- Hit the button - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- Multiplication Tables Check Practice - https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/
- Pobble 365 - https://www.pobble.com/
- Literacy shed - https://www.literacyshed.com/
- Rollama (SPAG) - https://rollama.com/
- Maths frame - https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check