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: 

Story Setting Descriptions

The children will be writing a descriptive character setting of woods at dusk.

Skills focus - Expanded noun phrases to describe setting, adverbs to add detail, similes and personification to add imagery.

Letter of Complaint

The children will be writing a letter of complaint about increasing the school day to 4.30pm.

Skill focus: Formal letter writing. Conjunction, justification, paragraphs

How Santa really works by Alan Snow 

The children will be writing an explanation text describing how toys are made.

Skill focus: Heading and subheadings as questions, Question marks, Introductory paragraph to explain purpose of text, Ideas grouped in paragraphs in chronological order, Diagrams/photos to add further details, Expanded noun phrases to add detail and Adverbials 

 

Maths:

Area

Skill focus - What area is, how to calculate area using squares and comparing areas of rectilinear shapes.

Multiplication and Divison

Skill focus - Multiples of 3, 6, 9, 7, 11 and 12. Including: key times table and divison facts and fact families

 

Guided Reading:

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

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 does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today?

Science: How does sound travel?

Geography: How do rainforests and deserts differ?

Design and Technology: Cooking Bolognaise

PSHE: Celebrating Difference

Computing: Audio Production

French: Presenting Myself

Music: Funk - James Brown

PE: PE days for this half-term will be on Thursday afternoon - Netball and Friday morning - Swimming. Please ensure that children come to school dressed in their PE kits on these days. On swimming days, they will need to bring swimwear, towel and goggles (if required) in a separate (waterproof) bag. 

 

Enrichment Opportunities this half-term:

Football tournament, Balaji temple trip, Pantomine

Important Diary Dates:

Wednesday 5th November - TTRS launch day - dress as a rock star!

Thursday 6th November - Football tournament at Blessed Edwards - come dressed in PE kit.

Monday 10th November - Odd socks for Anti-bullying week.

Friday 14th November - Children in Need - TBC

Tuesday 18th November - Vist to Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple - Vegetarian packed lunch required

Friday 21st November - final swimming lesson.

Tuesday 2nd December - Year 4 Stay and Share (9.15-10.30)

Thursday 4th December - Pantomine trip

Friday 11th December - Christmas lunch and jumper day