Welcome to Year 4

The year 4 team for 2024/25 consists of Mrs Leel (4I) and Mr Chadaway (4J) and our teaching assistants are Mrs Holder and Miss Fazackerley (1:1). 

Year 4 PE days are Tuesday* and Friday.

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

 Year 4 library day is Thursday

Summer 1

Welcome to the Summer term! This half term, Year 4 will be exploring the Amazon rainforest; discovering where it is, what makes it unique and the amazing features of it's four distinct layers.  We are also looking forward to our trip to Comton Verney, where the children will have the opportunity to showcase their learning and deepen their understanding of the Vikings.

This webpage is designed to support your child's learning with useful links, resources, and information. It's also a great way to keep up to date with some of the exciting work and projects your child will be involved in this term. We look forward to sharing their progress with you!

Click on the long term plan, curriculum summary, knowledge organisers and useful homework links below to find out more.

Long term plan

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!

Friends of Milby Sponsored Walk

What a great end to the half term! Year 4 enjoyed tucking into their cooling ice pops after giving their very best in the sponsored walk, covering lots of laps around the field!

VE Day 2025

This year marks the 80th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day. It is celebrated on May 8th each year to mark the end of World War II in Europe. On this day in 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Germany had surrendered, ending the war in Europe. Year 4 were involved in creating some artwork linked to this day so that the wards in George Elliot could display them. What fantastic pieces of artwork they are!

Reading Celebration 2025

A group of Year 4 children represented Milby Primary in the Warwickshire Schools Library Service Reading Challenge. The children had a number of tasks to perform! Firstly, they were given the opportunity to perform their creative response to 'Monster Slayer,' a book we have really enjoyed as part of our English lesson. After that, they took part in a quiz! The children performed exceptionally well, were great athe the quiz and they walked away with the winning trophy, medals and a goody bag including a selection of books! A great morning!

World Book Day 2025

What a blast we had celebrating World Book Day 2025! The children looked absolutely amazing in their costumes, and they were able to talk about their characters from their favourite books. We joined a live quiz called Footy and Booky, which involved 2 rounds of a quiz linked to football and books. All the children got involved and we scored really well! We also created our own reading doodles, and sketched out all our thoughts and feelings about reading.

Design Technology - Market Research

This half term, our DT focus is shell structures.  We looked at a range of existing product packages and looked carefully at the function of these packages, their features and what we liked and disliked about them.  This will help us to decide the features that we want when we begin to plan and make our own structures.

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

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

The children will be bringing home a Times Table revision booklet to practice over the half term for preparation of the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check. This will replace the spelling homework for this week.