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.
Summer 1
Our topic, this half term, is Savage Saxons and Vicious Vikings! We will be learning all about who these settlers were and why they decided to come Britain. Along the way, we will discover more about their life through ancient artefacts, research about their lifestyle and understand about leaders within their tribes.
In English, we will be focussing on the text “How To Train Your Dragon". First, we will be creating a basket to catch our own dragon then we will be writing an advertisement to sell what we have created. After that, we will be creating our very own dragons and writing a fact file. We will then be writing another persuasive advertisement.
In maths, we will be moving on to decimals. We will be looking at tenths as decimals, hundredths and dividing 1-digit numbers by 10, 2-digit numbers by 10 and 1 or 2-digit numbers by 100. We will be looking at writing decimals, comparing decimals, ordering decimals and rounding decimals. In summer 2, we will be covering the following units: money, time and geometry.
Other learning:
In science, we will be looking at food chains. In history, we will be looking at Britain's settlement by Anglo-Saxons & Scots, we will look at the Viking and Anglo - Saxon struggle for England. In RE, we will be looking at what does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today. In art we will focussing on the artist Frido Kahlo. In DT, we will be perfecting our sewing skills and creating a viking pouch.
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.
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
- 21st May - Jorvik trip
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.
Summer 1
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