Year 4
Welcome to Year 4
Class Teachers:
Pine: Miss Osborne
Oak: Miss Macleod
Support Staff:
Mrs Harper (LSA)
Key Messages/Dates
- PE is on a Thursday. Please ensure that your children come to school in full PE kit.
- During this term, Year 4 children will have access to Forest School in the afternoons. Your child will have the opportunity to visit Forest School as part of a small group once a week. Please ensure your child has an appropriate outdoor coat and wellies/spare shoes with them.
- Multiplication Table Check (MTC) - Within the 2-week period from Monday 2 June 2025.
- Reading Cafe
- Oak - 28th February, 2:30-3:15
- Pine - 3rd March, 2:30-3:15
What are we learning in Year 4 this half term?
Spring 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 Boy at the Back of the Class" by Onjali Q. Rauf. 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 Spring term, Year 4 will be learning to write stories from other cultures, persuasive writing adverts, explanatory text, third person adventure stories and poem which explore form.
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 ‘Flashback 4’ where children recap 4 previously learnt skills, fluency activities and opportunities for children to apply their knowledge to reasoning and problem solving. This half term we will be covering length and perimeter, fractions and decimals.
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
Geography
In geography, the children will be studying the water cycle and map skills.
History
In history, the children will study the achievements of the earliest civilisations - Ancient Egypt.
Science
This half term, children will learn about animals and humans, focusing on the digestive system and types of teeth. They will also explore food chains, identifying producers, predators, and prey.
Later, they will study electricity, identifying common electrical appliances and constructing simple series circuits. They will learn about the basic parts of a circuit, such as cells, wires, bulbs, switches, and buzzers. Additionally, they will understand how a complete circuit works, the role of switches, and the difference between conductors and insulators, with a focus on metals as good conductors.
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.
