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:
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
Haiku and Cinquain poetry - we will be writing about nature and wildlife and learning about haikus and cinquains. - Fiction
The children will be writing their own journey tale - based on our class novel The Firework Maker's Daughter.
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.
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.
Computing: Data Logging
In this unit, the children will consider how and why data is collected over time. They will consider the senses that humans use to experience the environment and how computers can use special input devices called sensors to monitor the environment. The children will collect data as well as access data captured over long periods of time and use a computer to review and analyse data.
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.
RE: Why are festivals important to religious communities?
We will be learning about the importance of festivals within the religions of Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism.
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 Tuesday. Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on those days.
Gymnastics (Tuesday)
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 (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 The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
