Welcome to Year 4

The year 4 team for 2025/26 consists of Mrs Leel (4I) and Mr Chadaway (4J) and our teaching assistant is Mrs Grimstead. 

Year 4 PE days are Tuesday* and Wednesday.

*Please note, during the spring term, children in 4I have swimming every Tuesday so will need their swimming kit.

 Year 4 library day is Thursday

Curriculum summary

Knowledge Organisers

Writing and maths key objectives

Learning Showcase

Welcome to the Year 4 Learning Showcase! Here, you can catch a glimpse of some of the exciting learning activities and special moments your children are experiencing. This space is designed to keep you connected with their progress, celebrate their achievements, and share the wonderful things happening in year 4. We're excited for you to be part of this journey!

Applying our tints and shades

After learning how to create tints and shades of a base colour, we applied this knowledge to create paintings of a mug cup, looking closely at where the light hits it and where it blocks the light. How amazing are our year 4 artists!

Art

We have been learning about tints and shades. We learnt that we can add black or white to a colour to make it lighter or darker. Look at our tints and shades!

Badminton

Year 4 have been practising their badminton skills. They have learned a range of shots to hit the shuttlecock with including an overhead shot and a backhand. Before this, they practised a number of skills including balancing the shuttlecock on the racquet.

Odd Socks Day - Anti-Bullying Week 2025

We kicked off Anti Bullying Week by wearing odd socks to school. This represents all of our diversities and differences! We did some learning about bullying and the key messages of STOP - Several Times On Purpose and Start Telling Other People. We also talked about being a bystander and a witness to bullying, and the choices we should make.

European Languages Day

Ni Hao! Year 4 engaged in an afternoon of learning the language of Mandarin to celebrate European Languages Day. We discovered how to greet people and the story of the Chinese Zodiac signs - did you know we are all born in the year of the Rooster or the Monkey? We had great fun writing our names in Mandaring, and learning what our names meant. It was a great afternoon!

Home learning

Homework is set on a Friday, and is due in the following Thursday - their new spellings will be written at the front of their link book weekly.  Children should be reading to an adult at least three times per week for at least 15/20 minutes each time.  This must be recorded in your child's reading record.

In addition to this, the children can develop their skills with a range of websites and apps the school has subscribed to.  To support our pupils with their learning at home, all children have been given individual logins for EdShed, Times Table Rock Stars and Bug Club.  These logins have been glued into their link books.  The links for these sites, along with some links for other useful web resources, have been included below for your convenience.

Maths Frame
Times Tables Rockstars

White Rose - 1 Minute Maths (app)

Bug Club (part of ActiveLearnPrimary)

EdShed

Would you like to access a maths lesson again? Then click this link to view the year 4 maths lessons in a video format -  White Rose Maths home learning videos. 

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4