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.

What’s happening this half-term?

Maths:

We will begin the half term looking at the area of shapes by counting the number of squares within them. After that, we will be learning our times tables upto 12 x 12 and learning the formal written method for multiplication.

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
  A Fear Tale - we will look at how to use fronted adverbials to develop our sentences and how to use effective verbs and adjectives to improve our descriptions of settings and characters.
• Non-fiction
  A dream poem - this will involve creating crazy ideas using juxtaposition, whilst also using alliteration and collective nouns. 

Geography: Exploring Levenshulme

We are learning about our local area, Levenshulme. As part of the topic we will visit local areas, draw and create maps of the area and understand how to use a compass and grid references to get from one location to another.

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Science: Electricity.

During our electricity unit we will be drawing and building circuits involving bulbs and switches. We will then look at how different materials can conduct electricity.

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Computing: We are musicians

This half term we will be working on iPads using the app called Garage Band. We will be learning how to create music using a variety of instruments.

Art: Repeating Patterns

We will explore how artists can work with pattern for different reasons and explore the work of the following artists who create artwork inspired by pattern - Shaheen Ahmed, Rachel Parker and Andy Gilmore. 

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RE: Why is the Bible important to Christians?

We will be learning about the bible and the different stories within it. Then understanding how these stories are used to teach people.

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PSHE:

We will be learning about friendships. The class will discuss how we can have healthy, positive friendships whether online or in our daily lives.

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 Dance on a Wednesday. Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on those days.

Dance (Wednesday)

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 (Thursday)

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 Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face by John Dougherty.

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:

Spellings will be sent out every week on a Friday to learn for a spelling test the following Friday.

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here

TTRockstars – click here