Year 4

 

The class teacher is Miss Galbraith. We also have Miss Grain as our teaching assistant. Miss Galbraith’s favourite subject to teach is anything STEM related, and Miss Grain is a talented artist who loves to support students to develop their creative flair.

 

Below is a summary of the areas of learning for children in Year 4. More detailed information can be found on our curriculum pages.

 

Throughout the year we will read various texts which form an integral part of our studies in reading comprehension, writing and History.  These texts are: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, How to Train Your Dragon and The Explorer.

 

Our Writing Curriculum is sequenced with the intention of building key knowledge and skills over time.  Throughout our writing units, we embed the key concepts of the Year 4 curriculum. The children are taught skills to be able to write for different purposes and audiences, creating pieces of fiction and non-fiction writing.

Autumn Term: Character descriptions, non-chronological report, poetry and explanation texts.

Spring term: Setting descriptions, narrative, newspaper reports, poetry and persuasive letters.

Summer term – Autobiography, narratives, author study, scripts and poetry.

 

In maths we will learn about number and place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, shape, money, time and measure.

Autumn term: Animals including Humans, (Teeth and the Digestive system): Sound and States of Matter (Water Cycle).

Spring term: Sound and Living things and their habitats.

Summer term: Living things and their habitats (Food Chains) and Electricity (Circuits).

History – The Roman Empire, The Anglos Saxons and Vikings and The Mayan Civilisation.

Geography- Our Continent: Europe, Naples and Edinburgh (Volcanoes) and map work (Hoyland).

Painting - (Artist study: Henri Rousseau).

Drawing - (Artist study: Vincent Van Gogh)

Sculpture – (Artist study: Julia Wilson).

 

Design and Technology – Mechanisms: Pneumatics, Food: Pizza and Systems and Structures: Light boxes.

PE – Hockey, Handball, Gymnastics and Dance, Rounders and Athletics.

 

RE – Hindu Dharma, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Sikh Dharam and the Jewish Faith

We also teach Music, Computing, PSHE, French and P4C.

 

In Music, we will learn about different genres of music. We will develop our playing skills using the glockenspiel and write out own lyrics for music. We will also learn more about the history of music.

Please note that our PE days are Thursdays and Fridays. Please bring both indoor and outdoor kit and a water bottle.