Year 4 2025 - 2026
Mr Mason
Mr Cole
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. In our classes, 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:
In maths, we will be continuing to learn about decimals. This involves partitioning, ordering and rounding. We will then move on to money and time.
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 - Warning Tale - We will be writing a warning tale and focusing on sentences of 3 for action, fronted adverbails and subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
- Non Chronological Report - The children will be writing a report about a goblin.
History: Ancient Rome
Following on from Egypt and Greece we will be learning about Ancient Rome and how it continues to influence the world we will live in today.
Science: Sound
We will explore the world of sound. What is it? How do we hear? How does sound travel? This will be complimented by our Science day on the 16th of April.
Computing: Photo Editing
Year 4 will be learning how to use edit photos. This involves the software paint.net to edit photos by colour, rotating and cropping.
RE: How do festivals affect jewish families and communities.?
This half term we will be looking at the importance of festivals and celebrations within Judaism.
PSHE:
We will be learning about the importance of staying safe and informed around medicine.
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 Athletics on a Tuesday. Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on those days.
Athletics (Tuesday)
Kit: trainers, black shorts or tight fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt (track suit top and joggers if cold). Please ensure the children have their hair tied back and no jewellery.
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.
Homework
This half-term's brainbuilder can be found here.
Reading:
In class we are currently reading The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
