Year 4 2024 - 2025

Meet the Team

Mr Mason, Mr Cole, Mrs Kinnear, Mme Lie, Mr Hooper

If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Year 4 staff or email year4@almapark.manchester.sch.uk

Welcome

Welcome to Year 4! In Year 4, children continue on their journey through KS2, learning and growing each and every day. As a class, we promote resilience, positive thinking and high aspirations, ensuring every child works hard to ensure they progress and achieve their full potential.

Here, you can find an overview of the Year 4 Curriculum. You can use this information to discuss with your child what they have learned and continue to support their learning at home.

What’s happening this half-term?

Maths:

This half term, we will be looking at fractions - what a fraction is, what they are made of and how to count in fractions. The children will learn about improper fractions and mixed numbers. After that, we will look at decimals. Throughout the half term, we will be recapping our times tables up to 12.

In Year 4, the children sit a national multiplication test in June. To support your children, you can gain access to practice tests here.

English:

• Non-Fiction
  Persuasive Text - we will be looking at how to use writing to persuade people to visit places. We will be looking at local landmarks and what makes them so special.
• Fiction
  The children will be writing a report on a creature of their own making.

Geography: Manchester or Venice

We will be looking at the differences and similarities between Venice and Manchester. We will be looking at maps, using iPads and undertaking local fieldwork.

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Science: The Water Cycle

The children will be learning about the importance of the water cycle. They will design experiments that show the water cycle in action.

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Computing: We are HTML editors

This half term we will be working on laptops and computers. We will use HTML and CSS language to design websites.

Art: Sculpture

In art this half-term, the children will be looking at famous artists and how they construct models of bird's nests. The children will learn how to weave their own bird's nests.

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RE: Why are festivals important to religious communities?

We will be learning about the importance of festivals within teh religions of Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism.

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PSHE:

We will be learning about digital safety and managing money. The class will discuss how we can have healthy, positive lifestyles that benefit ourselves and others. 

French:

• Learning to ask questions and give answers.
• Sentence building, further adjectives and vocabulary for a game.
• Masculine nouns and feminine nouns.

P.E:

This half term Year 4 will have Gymnastics on a Wednesday. Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on those days.

Gymnastics (Wednesday)

Kit: Black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt. Please ensure hair is tied back and no jewellery is worn.

Swimming (Thursday)

Your child needs to bring in a separate bag, a towel, swimsuit or trunks and a swimming hat if your child has long hair. Please do not bring goggles or wear ear-rings on this day.

Reading:

In class we are currently reading The BFG by Roald Dahl.

Please read with your child every day and comment in their reading record when you do. Reading books should be in school everyday for independent reading and can be changed everyday.

Homework:

Spellings will be sent out every week on a Friday to learn for a spelling test the following Friday.

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here

TTRockstars – click here