The Year 4 Classes are taught by Ms Griffiths (Jade) & Ms Moss and Ms Everett (Sapphire) and TAs Ms Ms Farboud, Ms Davis and Ms Coxall. Jade’s PPA is covered by Ms Everett on a Wednesday afternoon.
This year we are going to have many adventures to help us learn, from travelling through Africa to journeying through the human body!
This half-term our topic is The Kingdom of Benin. In English, we will be reading stories which represent different viewpoints from around the world. In Maths, we will be focusing on Numbers up to 10,000 and formal methods of addition and subtraction. In History, we will be learning about the core history of Benin and its Golden Age. In Art we will explore adinkra patterns. In Music we will be learning about jazz music and playing the ukulele, and in PE we will focus on football and swimming.
We will also have a geography project to compare villages and cities, discovering why people choose to live in different locations.
As writers will learn to use speech correctly, ensuring punctuation is correct. Children will learn how to use fronted adverbials to say where, when or how something is happening. We will learn about how expanded noun phrases with prepositions can be used to add extra information to our description. We will learn to write speech correctly. We will also create our own versions of the Australian and Moroccan sides of ‘Mirror’, expanding this book into a full narrative.
As readers we will take part in reciprocal reading sessions, being introduced to the roles of predictor, summariser, questioner and clarifier. Children will read texts from Africa, especially focused on Benin: An African Kingdom.
As mathematicians we will be developing our understanding of number, focusing on numbers up to 10,000. Children will develop their understanding of place value as well as learning the formal methods for addition and subtraction. As part of this unit children will gain a deeper knowledge of how numbers can be partitioned to help us solve difficult maths problems.
Homework
Homework tasks are shared on a Thursday where appropriate and should be completed by the following Tuesday. Homework will be shared via google classroom.
We will also be doing swimming on a Monday (starting 14th September) and Outdoor PE on Thursday afternoons. Please send your child to school in their normal clothes with a named PE kit, so that they can change for their PE lesson.
Y4 Long Term Plan Overview 2026-27
Curriculum information for parents Autumn 1
Year 4 Reading Assessment Statements
Year 4 Writing Assessment Statements
Year 4 Maths Assessment Statements
Year 4 Science Assessment Statements
NC14 Y3&4 Spelling and Wordlist
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