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. 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:

The children will be learning about acute and obtuse angles. They will also be looking at different triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons.

After that, the children will explore how to understand line graphs then they will look at symmetry and how to translate shapes on a grid using coordinates.

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 – descriptive writing – we will be combining all of the skills that we have learnt this year to write a descriptive paragraph. It will include speech, fronted adverbials, sentence of 3 for description, sentence of 3 for action and apostrophes for possession.

• Non-fiction - Letter of Complaint - The children will be writing letters to complain about how humans are damaging the earth. This links to our Science and Geography units this half term.

Geography: Our Changing Climate

We are looking at climate zones around the world and how humans have affected the world's climate. The children will be learning about the Earth's lines of latitude, using maps and atlases to compare past and present images of the world. Click here for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science: Living Things and their Habitats

We will be categorising different animals and looking at the characteristics of different creatures. The children will go on a mini-beast hunt and see what creatures we have living in and around Alma Park. Click here for the Knowledge Organiser.

Art: Still Life Painting.

We will be learing how to use tone to create the illusion of 3D images. The children will experiment with adding black and white to other colours to add depth and texture to their art. They will produce a final piece where they draw a still life of items that they choose. Click here for the Knowledge Organiser.

Computing: Repetition in Games

Year 4 will be using count-controlled and infinite loops to modify existing animations using repetition. Their final project is to design and create a game using repetition, applying stages of programming design throughout.

RE: What do different people believe about God?

We will be learning about the similarities and differences between the major religions in how they view and celebrate god. Click here for the Knowledge Organiser.

PSHE:

We will be learning about gender, diversity and changes to the body.

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.

Cricket (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 Bobby Bains Plays a Blinder by Bali Rai