Welcome to the Year 4 Page
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- Miss Giles - Hippo Class
- Miss Gillatt - Lemur Class
Useful Information
Homework - Homework will be given out on a Friday and is due in the following Thursday. Homework in Year 4 will be Spellings and Times tables.
Multiplication tables check - Year 4 will have a multiplication tables check in June 2026. This will test them on their recall of multiplication facts up to 12 x 12. They will have 25 questions and will have 6 seconds to answer each one on a laptop. Please use TTTS as much as you can at home to encourage recall of multiplication facts.
Reading - Please record reading at home in reading records. Reading records will be checked daily. Every class competes to read to their teacher's height - a great incentive for a class treat once this height has been reached.
PE - We have 2 PE lessons per week - 1 outdoor and 1 indoor. Please ensure suitable PE kit is worn to school on those days. Please ask your class teacher if you are unsure of which days.
Below is information about our learning this term as well as links to useful websites to support learning at home.
Spring Term 1
In English this term, we are using the short film The Lighthouse. Tom, the lighthouse keeper is a grumpy man whose neighbours annoy him! One night, a ship is heading for the rocks, but the lighthouse is not working. Tom tries in vain to get the lamp working in tragic circumstances. Something unexpected happens and the light house becomes bright again. The story will be used to help develop our grammar skills; focusing on tenses, subordinate clauses and conjunctions. We will use these grammar focuses to plan and write our own version of the story. Then we will switch to our Faction unit, where we will invent our own island and write a non-chronological report about it.
In Maths we will begin the term by looking at factor pairs. We will then progress to multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100, looking at the movement of digits on the place value grid. Then we will use more formal written methods to multiply and divide 2 and 3-digit numbers.
In Science, we are looking at States of Matter. After learning about the properties of these materials, we will then do some practical investigations.
Rivers will be our focus for Geography. We will learn about how rivers work including their features such as meanders and ox bow lakes. We will be lucky enough to have a visit from Wiltshire's Rivers Trust where we will be lead in some practical classroom activities.
Useful Websites to Support Learning
Here are some useful links that you can look at. The links to videos / activities are listed below: