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 and check their understanding, as well as the meanings of unfamiliar words. Children should also be reading for pleasure with a book of their own choosing from either the library, class library or home.

Our texts this term include Brother Eagle, Sister Sky and Flood.  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 Guided Reading 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.

PE

PE takes place with class teachers on Monday  and our sports coach takes pupils on a Thursday morning. Our focus this term is striking and fielding and net/wall sports Pupils also be taking part in lots of other physical exercise such as Joe Wicks workouts, Numberocks dancing and Cosmic Yoga sessions throughout the week! 

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.

Design & Technology

To support pupils' work in Science, Year 4 will be completing their electricity unit, using their knowledge of circuits to design and make a torch. Later in the summer term they will be focusing on constructions and support. Pupils will be designing and making their own bridge. 

Year 4 Team

Teachers:
Mrs Middlehurst

Mrs Bell

 Teaching Assistants:

 Mrs Wild

Mrs Walsh

Mr Davidson

Notices

Summer trips & visits 

Throughout the year, we enrich our curriculum through educational trips and visitors. This term we will be completing fieldwork studies learning about how the land is used for tourism and water storage around the Rivington Area. 

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 ready for our National Times Tables test in June!

Year Four in Pictures....

Slideshow coming soon...

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.  This term we will be particularly focusing on times tables in preparation for the National Times Table check in June

Spellings 

Spellings are set every week on a Friday, to be tested the following Friday.  As well as the Year 4 spelling rules we will be consolidating the Year 3/4 statutory spellings.  We recommend that children use a variety of strategies to learn their spellings as practised in spelling lessons. 

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 Living Processes and the Digestive system this term. 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 

Geography

Pupils will learn about the physical and human geography of Rivington and how the land is used there. They will also study mountains and rivers and learn about the different stages a river takes as it makes its way to the sea.

Art

Pupils will study the work of Jeff Coons focusing on the artistic elements of Form and Value this term. They will create their own Balloon Dog designs in the style of Jeff Coons. 

Computing

Pupils will learn how to use angles to help them navigate using LOGO . They will also investigate effective searching, using specific terms to help them search information and check it for accuracy. Pupils will also be developing their coding skills using Purple Mash block-coding software. 

RE

Year 4 will be considering the different faith communities that exist within our society and the differences and similarities they have. We will be examining where, how and why do people pray. (Islam and Christianity)

Music

Year 4 will be enjoying Wider Opportunities music lessons organised by Wigan Music Service.  Pupils will be learning to play string instruments (the viola, cello nd violin). They will then showcase their progress to parents over the year. Children who have already completed this will also be completing music lessons linked to the BBC Ten Pieces