Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

Class Teachers

Pine: Miss Owen

Oak: Mrs Southgate

Support Staff:

Miss Adams (HLTA)

Miss Lewis (LSA)

Key Messages/Dates

P.E is on a Friday (Please come in the correct kit!)

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Tuesday 17th November 2026 - The Players Theatre

What are we learning in Year 4 this term?

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 term, our core text is 'The Queens Nose'. Harmony Parker is ten years old and loves animals. She longs for a pet of her very own, but her parents won’t allow it. All she can do is keep hoping, dreaming and wishing.

Then Uncle Ginger comes to visit from India. He and Harmony become friends, and he gives her a very special present. Not a puppy, but something even better: a magical 50 pence piece with the power to grant seven wishes. All she has to do is rub the point of the coin opposite the Queen’s nose.

Harmony starts wishing right away, and is soon the proud owner of some of the things she wants most in the world. But she discovers that you have to be careful what you wish for, as the Queen’s nose doesn’t always grant wishes in quite the way you might expect...

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 term, Year 4 will be looking at the following:

Poems which explore form

By the end of this unit the children will be able to use a range of poetic devices, create a rhythm and convey meaning and perform their poetry using intonation, volume and actions!

Persuasive Writing - Adverts

By the end of this unit the children will be able to create an advert which includes; superlatives, slogans, rhetorical questions and powerful vocabulary!

First Person Diary Entries - Imaginative

By the end of this unit the children will be able to use an informal tone, reported speech and write from the first person perspective conveying events through the eyes of the author!

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 term we will be looking at:

Place Value
Addition and Subtraction

During these units, pupils will use a variety of concrete resources and pictorial representations to move toward abstract mathematical concepts. We focus heavily on mathematical talk and reasoning, ensuring children can explain how they reached an answer, not just that they found the correct one. Children will also have the opportunity to practice 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.

Science

This half term in science we will learn how to:

Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases.
Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C).
Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.