This term in English, Year 4 will be diving into the beautiful picture book Leaf by Sandra Dieckmann — a touching story that inspires empathy, imagination, and powerful storytelling. Using this book as our focus, we will explore how to narrate effectively, bringing characters and settings to life through rich description and emotion. We will also create our own information reports to inform readers, building skills in writing clearly and confidently. Along the way, we’ll strengthen our understanding of language — learning the difference between plural and possessive -s, and practising the correct use of standard English verb forms such as we were instead of we was. Our sentences will become more exciting and detailed as we experiment with expanded noun phrases, prepositions of time, place, and cause, and fronted adverbials to add variety and flow. We’ll also focus on choosing the right pronouns and nouns to make our writing cohesive and engaging, while using apostrophes for possession and commas after fronted adverbials with growing confidence. It promises to be a creative and inspiring term filled with stories, imagination, and the joy of writing!  

This term in Maths, Year 4 will be building confidence and precision in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division through exciting challenges and real-life problem solving. We’ll strengthen our recall of key number facts — including pairs that make 100 and multiples of 100 that total 1,000 — and use these to solve problems efficiently using both mental and written methods. Our work will include adding and subtracting two- and three-digit numbers and amounts of money, developing strategies to tackle missing number puzzles and finding unknown values by using related facts. We’ll also explore doubling and halving, even with decimals, using partitioning to make our calculations quick and accurate. In multiplication and division, we’ll deepen our understanding of place value, factor pairs, and the idea that multiplication can be done in any order. We’ll apply these skills using written methods such as the grid method, and use division to check our answers. Through practical and problem-solving activities, we’ll learn to multiply three numbers together, use scaling and bar models to solve complex problems, and explore how sets of objects can be linked in different ways through correspondence problems. It’s going to be a term full of number discoveries, reasoning, and mathematical resilience!

This term, our learning will take us on exciting journeys as we explore seas and coasts, discover the importance of renewable energy, and investigate habitats and classification keys in science. As the festive season approaches, we will also enjoy preparing for our Christmas production and getting creative with seasonal crafts

No woodlands this half term.

Tuesday - Hockey
Friday - Dance

Class Dojo will continue to be used this year. It is a great space where you can view photos, videos and information about what is happening in Year 4 and across the school. If you require another invitation to join, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Please can you ensure that all belongings and named (PE Kits – Wellies – School Uniform – Bags – Coats – Water bottles etc).