Year 4 2025 - 2026
Mr Etherington
WELCOME TO CLASS 4!
Please find information below about the current learning in Year 4.
Meet the Team
Mr Etherington - Class teacher
Mrs Potts - Teaching on a Thursday.
Mrs Turner-Smith - Teaching assistant
Mrs Fisher - Teaching assistant
Mr Ireland - Spanish (Tuesdays)
Mr McKinnell - P.E. (Tuesdays)
Mrs Finlow - Drumming (Fridays)
Homework
- English 10 minute weekly workout
- Maths 10 minute weekly workout
- Daily timestables practice using TTRockstars. Weekly test on a Thursday in preparation for the National Year 4 Mutliplication Check. Children should be able to recall timestables up to and including 12x12 within 5 seconds.
- Spelling Shed (Weekly spellings and test given on a Wednesday)
- Daily Reading (Diary signed at least 4 times per week)
Our Week
Monday: N/A
Tuesday: P.E. Kit
Wednesday: Spelling quiz and new spellings distributed
Thursday: Times-table quiz
Friday: Swimming
Homework
Reading diaries checked
Change levelled reading book
Equipment
PE kit - Tuesday
Swimming kit - Friday
Stationery is provided by school. Children do not need a pencil case but we may have 'pencil case sessions' where children are welcome to use their own stationery.
Units of Learning - Autumn 1
Maths - Place value; Addition and subtraction
Writing - Inspired by the book, 'The Whale', children will write a setting narrative with a grammar focus on sentence demarcation, fronted advebrials, and conjunctions.
Reading - Learning to makde predictiosn and infer; retreive information from a text; and summarise what has been read.
Science - Classifying Animals
RE: How do beliefs shape people’s lives? How do they differ?
Geography - Rainforests
Computing - Online Safety
Art- Fabric of Nature- children will design a printing press inspired by the rainforest
Wellbeing - Resilience
Music - Samba drumming with a focus on rhythm, ensemble performance, instrumentation, and techinque.
PSHE - Families and relationships
Useful links
Timestable Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/
Hit the Button (timestables): https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Spelling Shed: https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/spellingshed
Dictionary/Thesaurus.com: https://www.dictionary.com/
Britanica Kids: https://kids.britannica.com/
NatGeoKids: https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Scratch (Computing): https://scratch.mit.edu/
Parents, please look out for updates on Class Dojo and if you have any questions, please ask via Dojo's messaging facility.
