Reading

As with previous year groups, children will be given a reading book from a specific colour band at the beginning of each term, which will be changed accordingly throughout the year as your child's fluency and comprehension improve. Children are encouraged to read their individual reading books to an adult at least three times a week. This is to ensure that they have the opportunity to discuss a text, check their understanding and improve fluency All children will also be  encouraged to select a text to read for pleasure. This may be a book from the class library, school library or home.
In Year 4, novels include Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Boy Who Grew Dragons.  We also study a wide range of picture books, poetry and non-fiction texts to support children's work in English. This is also taught through whole class/guided sessions, where children will be able to delve deeper into a variety of text types, developing their understanding of plot, structure and character. They will be taught and practise skills such as retrieval, inference and prediction. we also promote book talk on the timetable which may involve recommendations and completion of our reading scrapbook.

PE

PE takes place on Wednesday afternoon and our sports coach takes pupils for Games on a Thursday morning. We will also be taking part in lots of other physical exercise such as Joe Wicks and Cosmic Yoga! 

English

English lessons are based around a range of narrative, picture and non-fiction texts. Pupils learn to develop their language skills through grammar, spelling & punctuation activities and apply this during weekly creative writing sessions through a range of genres. Pupils also learn redrafting and editing skills to improve their work.

Computing

Pupils will be learning about E-Safety, how to be Google Investigators and extend their skills and knowledge within Coding this term. Pupils will access their GSuite accounts and utilise Classroom and online tools to support their digital learning.

RE

Children will be learning about the nature and function of rules in society today and consider some of the consequences of not obeying rules, study Advent and create an advent calendar and explain how Christmas customs help Christians to think about the true meaning of Christmas. 

Year 4 Team

Teachers:

 Mrs Spruce
Mrs Middlehurst

 Teaching Assistants:

 Mrs Wild

Ms Willis

Miss Nixon

Notices

Autumn trips & visits 

Throughout the year, we enrich our curriculum through educational trips and visitors. In the Autumn term, Year 4 will receive a a visit from Wayland the Viking and take part in a workshop to learn all about the Viking culture and their legacy. 

Mathematics

Over the course of the year we will be covering all aspects of  Year 4 with a focus on: fluency, problem solving and reasoning  Another main focus will be fluency of times tables knowledge. 

National Curriculum

To view the National Curriculum expectations for Year Four children -please click here 

Homework 

Throughout the year, children will be given 3 on-going key homework tasks: times tables, reading and spellings. As well as this, there will be a weekly homework task linked to English, Maths or Topic work. Homework tasks can also be accessed via pupils' Google Classrooms. 

Spellings 

Spellings are set every week on Friday, to be tested the following Friday. As well as the year 4 spelling rules, we also have a statutory word list to be learnt  (We will also be teaching and consolidating some of the year 3 spelling rules.  We recommend that children use a variety of strategies to learn their spellings both in and out of school. The children should be encouraged to write the spellings by hand as this has proved to be a successful way of learning and remembering the spellings

Please click here to see the words that children in Year 4 are expected to be able to spell by the end of the year.

Science 

 Pupils will be learning about solids, liquids and gases, electricity and sound. Lessons are largely practical in nature and aim to develop pupils' investigative skills in a range of pupil and teacher-led experiments. 

Our Topic Learning 

History

Our unit this term is 'Raiders. Traders. Invaders'. The children will learn about Anglo-Saxon, Scots and Vikings invasion of, and settlement in, Britain. They will study the invasions, settlements and kingdoms, place names, village life, laws and justice, art and culture. They will then study the Christian conversion, including the events at Canterbury, Iona and Lindisfarne. They will learn about the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066, the resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan and Danegeld. 

Music

Year 4 will be enjoying the Wider Opportunities music lessons organised by Wigan Music Service. Pupils will be learning to play the violin, viola or cello and take part in a range of concerts to showcase their progress to parents over the year.