Welcome back to Year 4

For our final term, we have many of interesting things to explore, discover and enjoy.  Our priority will continue to be a focus on regular reading as well as developing the children’s quick recall of the times tables facts to 12 x 12 in preparation for the national multiplication check in June.

Class work:  We will provide you with pencils, rulers, rubbers, colouring pencils and handwriting pens for those with a licence.  We ask that pencil cases are left at home as there is nowhere to store them safely in class.

Home learning:

Reading – 10 minutes reading daily. We ask that an adult signs the reading diary and it is handed in at least once per week. This is a whole school focus this year!

Spellings: There will be weekly tests.

Times Tables:  TT Rock Stars  5 minutes  each day either at home or during break time.

Games and PE:

Children will need  to wear their PE kit to school on P.E days. These will vary this term due to our swimming sessions. Please check on class dojo's for regular information on this.  Children MUST have P.E. kit to take part for health and safety reasons.  Children with long hair, must have it tied back for PE lessons and stud earrings must be covered with tape that is brought to school or they will need to be removed.

Kit:        Trainers, white shirt, blue/black shorts, football/trainer socks.

In colder weather, a plain tracksuit may be worn outdoors for games.

Please ensure that all items of clothing are named. A small named bag containing your PE kit is all that is necessary as cloakroom space is limited.  Please keep your PE kit in school and we will ensure that it is sent home each half term for washing.

Ms Price, Miss Pooley and Miss Matthews

Summer Term 2025

English

This term we will be looking at many different writing types including fantasy stories , information texts and poetry. We will continue to focus on learning Year 3/ 4 high frequency words as well as different spelling patterns which include homophones and suffixes. Throughout this term we will continue to use a wide range of conjunctions, expanded noun phrases that are modified with prepositions, fronted adverbials and other ways to make our writing more exciting and engaging for the reader. We will continue to improve our writing by checking and editing. Presentation will be a focus to and we will regularly practising consistent, legible and joined handwriting.

Each day, we have a whole class reading activity. The texts are both topic based and from our Reading Spine for Year 3/ 4. These include fiction, non-fiction , poetry and plays and these sessions will further develop fluency, inference, retrieval, prediction, sequencing and summarising skills.

All children will have a home reading book suited to their reading level and this will be assessed regularly throughout the term. It is very important to read with your child each day and make a record of this in their diary.

Maths

This term we will continue to focus on multiplication and division as we will undertake the National Multiplication Check in June. Each week , we will continue to spend time practising the times tables using many resources including TTrockstar. This knowledge is a huge benefit to understanding many aspects of Maths now and in the future .

During our lessons, we will be continuing to cover area and shape, decimals, fractions and money.

Science

This term we will be focusing on the properties of materials and will be considering our prior knowledge  and understanding of solids, liquids and gases. We will be undertaking a number of investigations and further developing our working scientifically skills. We will be learning about electricity and create circuits after half-term.

History

This term, we will be learning about different famous local people and places that have made an impact on our community. We will also consider how migration has shaped our local area.

Geography

This term, we will be looking back on our prior learning about the structure of Earth and tectonic plates. We will look in further detail at the impact Earthquakes can have on those who have lived through such natural disasters and what can be put in place to help those communities who live in vulnerable areas.

Art

Our Art topic this term is Favourite things and we will look at a piece called This and That created by the Artist Pippa Goodhart who used objects from the British Museum. We will use our favourite things to create our own still life sketches.

Design and technology

This term we will be focusing on linking our learning in science with our DT skills to design our own mood lighting. We will then evaluate our designs against the design criteria.

PE

This term we will be swimming for a week in both terms.  We will also be focusing on preparation for sports day and practise for these events.

Music

As well as singing opportunities, we will also continue guitar tuition and Samba, working with Mr Norman and continue to use the school's guitars and PYMS Samba instruments.

Computing

We will regularly cover e-safety topics, what steps to take to keep safe on line and our responsibilities. We will also look at Computational thinking and create algorithms with logical sequences that help us complete tasks.

French

This term we will be broadening our French vocabulary as we learn how to describe ourselves and others as well as learning numbers to 20.  We will also learn traditional French stories .

PSHE

Following the Jigsaw programme, we will be looking at Relationships and Changing me through a variety of discussion tasks and activities.

Religion and Worldviews

This term, we consider the people and historic evets that have shaped Islamic diversity. In the final term, we will look at how religious belief has shaped our local area.

Throughout this term, we will be reading about the adventures of Maya as she builds a new life in Manaus on the banks of the River Sea ( Amazon) by sharing the story Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson.

 E-Safety

As so many of us are spending more and more time online, it is important that the children have a secure knowledge of how to be safe.  We will discuss various issues regarding this each week.  If you or your child  have any questions linked to their online world, then please do not hesitate to get in touch or have a look at some of the links below.

Additional Useful Information

• Please read the information by clicking on the link on the national multiplication check that your child will take in June.   Information concerning the times table multiplication test in June 2025 will be added when it becomes available.