YEAR 4

Welcome to Year 4!
On this page, you will find a selection of helpful files and documents that should support you at home.  

 

Important Information

 Read our curriculum information for this year below. 

You can also see our current Termly Curriculum News and KSO. 

• Year 4 foundation subject skills
• Curriculum News Summer Term Year 4
• Year 3 and Year 4 topic rolling programme (B)
• Writing Skills Year 4
• Reading Skills Year 4
• Maths Skills Year 4
• Science Skills Year 4

Subject Pages for more detail  

Our Topics         

Tools of the Trade

The Stone Age (a period of time when humans used stone to make tools) covers a huge period of time. It can be broken down into three smaller time periods: the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic.  There is evidence that the Stone Age people were skilled at fishing and crafts. We also know that they developed farms to live off and that they took part in religious rituals. In 1850, a Stone Age village called Skara Brae was discovered on Orkney, off the north-eastern coast of Scotland. It provided evidence that the Stone Age people were beginning to settle down, making homes and farming rather than constantly moving around. Stonehenge is a very famous monument in Wiltshire, England and was largely built during the Stone Age. 

YEAR_4_Curriculum_news_SUMMER.docx

Home Learning

Year 4 

Reading - 15 minutes daily 

Spellings - 5 minutes daily 

Purple Mash - 15 minutes twice a week

Year 4 pupils to also practice times tables on TTRS (Times Table Rock Stars).  

Reading

Our school uses Accelerated Reader to support children to access texts that are appropriately challenging and engaging. As part of our school home learning expectations, children should read 5 times a week (15 minutes for Year 3 and 4; 20 minutes for Year 5 and 6). This is in addition to regular independent reading at school.  Children are also required to complete Accelerated Reader quizzes when they finish books. Your child’s class teacher regularly checks Accelerated Reader and can see the books that children read. Children also complete a simple reading log so that texts which do not have Accelerated Reader quizzes are recorded. This replaces the need for children to fill in traditional reading diaries every time they read, ensures children are motivated and engaged, and gives the teacher helpful information about their reading habits and choices.  On top of this, each child in Key Stage Two has access to 1000 e-books through MYON.

 

 

The overview of weekly spellings can be found below. Children will be tested weekly. 

 Maths

Times table sessions take place regularly in Year 4. Please see below for some useful links to support your child in becoming more fluent with their times table facts up to 12 x 12. 

• Times table games

• Key Stage Two Reading Comprehension Skills

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Our Class

 What's it like in Y4? A 'day in the life' 

8:40 Arrive at school, register, free writing, times table practice and/or quiet reading.

8:55 Register.

9:00 Worship.

9:30 Maths.

10:30 Break outside. 

10:45 Phonics or handwriting - learn or practise the pattern for the week.

11:10 English - with a reading or writing focus, linking to our topic.

12:10 Lunch.

1.10 Register, quiet reading/ Accelerated Reader quiz. 

1:20 R.E.

2:20 Art.

3:05 Class story/times table game/ show and tell. 

3:15 Home time.

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