Year 4
Welcome to Year 4
Class Teachers:
Pine: Miss Owen
Oak: Miss Macleod
Support Staff:
Mrs Chrissy Cleveland
Miss Kirsty Lewis
Key Messages/Dates
- PE is on a Friday. Please ensure that your children come to school in full PE kit.
- Anglo Saxon Day - 24th November
- Multiplication Table Check (MTC) - TBC.
- Forest School - Spring 2
What are we learning in Year 4 this half term?
Autumn 2
Reading
These are the texts that we cover throughout the year:
At St Margaret's we are passionate about reading! We teach daily reading session based on a Curriculum for Unity School's Partnership (CUSP) text.
This half term, our core text is "The Girl Who Stole an Elephant" by Nizrana Farook. The core texts are supplemented by a variety of additional texts, to support children developing their reading fluency and confidence across a range of text types.
Writing
At St Margaret's Primary Academy we follow CUSP for our writing curriculum. The CUSP curriculum is a vocabulary rich, knowledge based approach to help develop pupils' retrieval, vocabulary and deepen learning. During the Autumn 2 term, Year 4 will be looking at third person adventure stories, news reports and we will critically analyse narrative poetry.
Maths
At St Margaret's Primary Academy we adopt a Mastery approach to teach maths lessons. The mastery approach supports children in becoming fluent and confident mathematicians. Maths lessons include ‘Foundational Skills’ where children recap previously learnt skills. This half term we will be covering addition and subtraction, area and multiplication and division.
Children will have the opportunity to practise and develop their times table knowledge daily.
Multiplication Table Check (MTC)
The Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) is a mandatory assessment for Year 4 pupils, designed to evaluate their fluency in multiplication tables up to 12x12. This assessment is completed online in a similar nature to soundcheck on TTRS. The MTC aims to ensure that students have a strong grasp of basic multiplication facts, which is crucial to their mathematical development
History
In history, the children will be studying Britain's Settlement by Anglo-Saxons.
Science
This half term, children will explore the topic of states of matter. They will learn that matter is anything that takes up space and has mass, and that it can exist in different states—namely solids, liquids, and gases. Pupils will investigate the properties of each state and how materials can change from one state to another. Through hands-on experiments and observations, they will discover how heating and cooling can cause materials to melt, evaporate, condense, or freeze. These changes will help them understand the processes of melting, evaporating, and condensing, and how temperature affects the movement and arrangement of particles. By the end of the unit, children will have a clear understanding of how materials change their state of matter and why these changes occur.
Home Learning
We expect children to read a minimum of three times a week at home; this should be logged on Boom Reader.
If you need support with Boom Reader, please come and speak to a member of the Year 4 team who will be more than happy to help.
Children are expected to practise their times tables at home regularly using Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS).
If you need support with logging into TTRS or are unaware of your child's login, please reach out to a member of the Year 4 team.
