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.

This half term:

English:

Fiction - A Journey Tale  - The Incredible Journey to a Magical Kingdom. The children will be focussing on fronted adverbials, speech punctuation, sentences of three for description, sentences of three 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.

Maths:

Angles, Shapes - triangles, quadriletrals, polygons. Statistics. Position and direction

In Year 4, the children sit a national multiplication test in June. To support your children, they can carry out tests similair to the real test. Click here to access the tests.

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.

Computing:

Data logging. We will be looking at how we can collect, store and display data.

The children will be collecting data using data loggers and producing their own graphs and spreadsheets.

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.

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 learing 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:

Please ensure that the children come to school on a Wednesday wearing their PE kits for our outdoor games lesson. This half term we will doing athletics.

Swimming will be on Thursday in both classes. 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 books:

In class we are currently reading A Dangerous Game by Malorie Blackman

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: 

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here

Year 4s spellings will be sent out every Monday to learn for a spelling test the following Monday.