Year 4 2025 - 2026

Meet the Team

Mr Mason, Mr Cole, Mme Lie, Mr Hooper, Mrs Fernandez Gomez

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.

Please find the information from the Meet the Teacher sessions here.

What’s happening this half-term?

 Maths:

To start the half term we will be looking at multiplciation and division. We will be recapping how to multiply two and three digit numbers by a 1 digit number and then moving onto dividing two and three digit numbers by a 1 digit number with and without remainders. After that, we will be learning how to find the perimeter of a range of shapes.

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:

• Fiction
  A Defeating the Monster Tale - This is based on the Greek myth Theseus and the Minotaur. The children will be writing work containing adjectives, fronted adverbials, a sentence of 3 for action and a sentence of 3 for description.
• Non-Fiction
  A persuasive leaflet - The children will be using a text created to persuade people to visit Levenshulme. At the end of the half term, they will write a persuasive leaflet for the Trafford Centre. This will involve writing about a shop, place to eat and an entertainment venue. In their writing, the children will be using sub headings, rhetorical questions, boastful language and aspostrophes for both contraction and possession.

History: Did the Ancient Greek’s achievements influence Britain?

We will be learning about Ancient Greece by looking at the key events that took place during this period of time, discussing how the country was split in to different states and how these states differed. To finish, we will be looking at the different Gods and Goddesses that they worshipped.

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Science: States of Matter

Over the half term we will be looking at Solids, Liquids and Gases. We will be looking at how their properties are different and observing the relationships between the three states.

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Computing: Repetition in Shapes

We will be using the software FMSLogo this half term to explore repetition in shapes.

Design Technology:

The children will be recapping their electricty knowledge from last half term's Science unit to help them make a game containing an electrical unit.

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RE: Why do we pray?

We will be looking at how the Christian, Muslim and Hidu faiths all pray, looking for any similiarities and differences.

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PSHE:

We will be learning about three different important topics during Spring 1 and 2. They are physical health and mental wellbeing; media literacy and digital resilience and finally money and work. We will recap what makes balanced diets and how important sleep is for our bodies, explore different medication and understand the key things to look out for on the packaging. After that, we will move onto looking at our digitial footprints and how online advertisements are used for persuasion purposes. 

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 Tuesday. Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on those days.

• Gymnastics
  
  We will be learning and performing a 6-element sequence that changes in speed and direction. Part of this will involve using weight on our hands to perform action.

      Kit: Black shorts or tight-fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt.

• Swimming - Monday

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 Omar: Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mian

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 Tuesday to learn for a spelling test the following Tuesday.

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here