Welcome to Year 4!

Working with the children in Year 4 are:

4GT Class Teacher: Mrs Tomkinson - gtomkinson@redhill.worcs.sch.uk 

Supporting Staff: Mrs Madeira, Mrs Hodgson and Mrs Ezzaquany

4EG Class Teacher: Mx Green - egreen@redhill.worcs.sch.uk

Supporting Staff: Mrs Ezzaquany, Mrs Addis, Mrs McCorrie and Miss Milton

 

Year 4 Information:

Below you will find some key information about life in Year 4. This includes the important skills your child will be developing, the enrichment opportunities they will experience, and other useful details about their time with us this year. We hope this gives you a clear picture of what to expect and how we will be supporting your child’s learning and wellbeing.

To help you further, we’ve also included additional documents at the end of this section. These provide more detail about our curriculum and offer ideas about how you can support your child’s learning at home.

 

English writing text: 

Quest story writing

The children will be writing their own Quest story for an unlikely hero, to entertain.

Skills focus – Describe an unlikely hero and villain, Plan the story for the unlikely hero to go on a quest to defeat the villain, Use fronted adverbials to describe when/how events occur, Use paragraphs to sequence in chronological order, Include direct speech to advance the action, Correctly punctuate direct speech using Inverted commas and Apply expanded noun phrases to describe the characters.

 

Maths:

Multiplication and Division

Skill focus: Factor pairs, Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100, Multiplying and dividing 2 and 3 digit numbers by 1 digit number, Informal written methods, Correspondence and Efficient multiplication.

Measurement - Area

Skill focus: Measure in kilometres and metres, Equivalent lengths, Perimeter of rectangles and rectilinear shapes, Missing lengths and Perimeter of regular and irregular polygons.

 

Guided Reading:

There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar

During our guided reading sessions, children will have regular opportunities to read aloud, helping them to develop fluency, confidence, and expression. We will model and encourage the use of intonation, pacing, and emphasis to bring meaning to the text. In addition, children will respond to a series of carefully planned questions based on the reading VIPERS, ensuring they build a wide range of comprehension skills. These sessions will allow children to deepen their understanding of texts, discuss ideas with their peers, and apply strategies that support them as independent, thoughtful readers.

V = Vocabulary

I = Inference

P = Predict

E = Explain

R = Retrieval

S = Sequence or Summarise

 

Religious Education: What is the ‘Trinity’ and why is it important for Christians?

Science: States of Matter: What are Solids, Liquids and Gases?

Geography: How do rainforests and deserts differ?

Art: Drawing Cityscapes - Stephen Wiltshire

PSHE: Dreams and Goals

Computing: Repetition in Shape

French: Presenting Myself

Music: 20th Century British music

PE: PE days for this half-term will be on Thursday afternoon - Forest School and Friday afternoon - Gymnastics. Please ensure that children come to school dressed in their Forest School / PE kits on these days.

 

Enrichment Opportunities this half-term:

History - 21st January 

Important Diary Dates: