Year 4 2025 - 2026
Miss Taylor
Welcome to Year 4
Miss Taylor and Mrs Scott
Welcome to our class page.
Take a look at this page to find out what we will be learning about this term. You will find lots of links and information that you can use to help you with some of the homework tasks, and links to websites where some tasks will be set. I will keep the page updated with tasks, events and news throughout the term, so please check it regularly.
If you have any questions or concerns throughout the term, please contact me at year4@vinetree.org.uk and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
PE days are Monday and Tuesday.
Our Learning Challenge this half term is:
What are rivers and how are they used?
Our Learning Challenge will be broken up into weekly learning questions:
1. What are the main features of a river?
2. What are the features of the upper, middle and lower courses of a river?
3. What is the water cycle and why is it so important?
4. Why have so many cities been established close to a river?
5. How would you carry out a river study?
Below is the Knowledge Organiser for the topic:
This will then link to our English, our text is: River Story
Our focus is to write a poetic narritive. That includes some of our new Year 4 skills.
- Expanding Noun Phrases
- Fronted Adverbials
- Personification
- Conjunctions
- Similes
- Ambitious Vocabulary
We will also be focusing on our Whole Class Reading texts to link with various fiction, non fiction and poetry texts.
This half term we will be focusing on Place Value and Geometry. We will be looking at numbers up to 10,000 and will learn about the value of each digit by partitioning 4-digit numbers. Year 4 will be looking at different types of angles and will be plotting coordinates.
In Year 4, the children will have a multiplication check in the summer term - there is some parent information further down in the file section on this page.
Please continue to practice Time Tables at home on a regular basis (an average of 30 minutes a week). The children have access to TTRockstars which we use dueing some sessions in school, login details are in their homework books.
Here are some times table songs we listen to in class to help us learn:
States of Matter and the Water Cycle.
This half term we are looking closely at solids, liquids and gases.
Our Learning Challenge Questions are:
1. What are the properties of solids, liquids and gases?
2. How does melting, freezing, condensing and evaporating happen?
3. What are the different stages of the water cycle?
4. How does tempurature affect evaporation rates and the water cycle?
Our Knowledge Organiser is below:
Spelling - Spelling Shed games are set every Monday to be completed by the following Monday. Log in details are in their homework books.
Reading - Please read three times per week with your child and record it in their reading record book to show they have read at home.
Books will be changed every Monday.
Children have access to Bingo books that can be changed on a Monday too!