Year 4 Class 2025/26
Welcome to Year 4!
Who's who
Mrs Farooq - Class Teacher
Miss Pearson - Learning Support Assistant
Mrs DeLancey- Learning Support Assistant
Reading
Children should be reading regularly to an adult at home - at minimum of 3 times a week. Year 4 home reading books can be changed every Tuesday and Friday. Reading Records are checked every Friday and the number of times your child had read is noted down. Reading certificates are awarded every 20th log in their record.
Homework: Spellings, Reading and Times Tables
Year 4 children will take home one piece of homework every Friday which will have a spelling focus. These words will be tested in a written spelling test in school the following Friday. We recommend that spellings are practiced every day.
Children will also take home a new reading book every Friday. This book will correspond with their reading level in school. Children are encouraged to read for 10 minutes every day. Reading can be recorded in their red reading logs.
When testing times tables, focus on facts that children are unable to recall automatically. All children have access to Times Tables Rockstars and should be practising for 10 minutes each day. All Year 4's in the country have a multiplication assessment at the end of the year and this is the best way to practice for that.
Below is our Year 4 Autumn Homework Grid which includes spellings for the term as well as extra pieces of homework that children can choose to complete at home across the term.
P.E and Forest School
P.E will take place every Monday. Children should come into school wearing their full P.E kit (navy/black joggers or shorts, house colour/white t-shirt and dark jogging top or blue school jumper).
Autumn Term 2025
English
This term, we will be looking at the text ‘Operation Gadgetman’ and write a character description based on the main character of the book and write an advert to persuade readers to buy a spy kit. In the second half term, we will read 'Firebird’ and write a letter from the perspective of the main character.
Maths
During this term, we will be learning about place value, with a key focus on representing and partitioning numbers to 10,000. We will then move on to addition and subtraction where children will be working towards adding and subtracting 4 digit numbers with more than one exchange. Later in the term, we will begin to focus on multiplication and division.
Science
During this term, we will be learning about electricity. In this unit, children will be focusing on conductors and insulators as well as building circuits with different components. In Autumn 2, children will learn about sound.
Geography
Our Geography unit for this term will be Farm to Fork! Children will be learning about where our food comes from, the journey from farm to fork as well as why we import food from other countries.
'Farm to Fork’ Knowledge Organiser
Online Maths Games
Please find a range of resources to support your child in maths.
Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)
Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks
Autumn Highlights!