Welcome to Lions class!

Maths

Times tables is a big focus for Year 4 to help prepare for the Multiplication Tables Check in Summer 2025. 

The link below has a collection of times tables songs children can play and dance along to which will really help them learn times tables in a fun and active way. 

The following website is useful for children to get used to the format of the Multiplication Tables Check.

English

In English we will spend the year looking at a variety of books and carrying out a wide range of reading and writing activities based around them.  We will also be developing our reading and writing skills through a range of both short films and longer chapter books.  Spelling is a big focus this year, so we will be looking at mnemonics, tricks and tips to help us improve our knowledge of how words are written. Children will have the opportunity to enter Spelling Shed competitions to support this. Furthermore, we will be improving our reading skills to work on our comprehension of texts on a variety of topics. 

Reading

In Lions class, we love to read, with a cosy reading corner to enjoy quiet reading every day. Each child has a reading bookmark in school which we stamp every time they read at home. There are 6 bookmarks to complete and the children can collect a prize when they have finished each level (32 reads). We encourage any type of reading, including newspapers, magazines, even leaflets and recipes – it all helps! 

P.E

P.E is on Monday, though it is useful to keep P.E kits in school from Monday-Friday as the children regularly participate in additional PE and sports workshops.

Homework

The most important thing children can do at home is to keep up with their reading. Please remember to log any reading on your child's digital record (Boom Reader) so we can keep track and update the children's bookmarks in school. In addition, children should be practising their times tables, using either Times Tables Rockstars, singing along to multiplication songs or trying out one of the fun dances on the BBC Supermovers site. Children can also log into Spelling Shed to play games and complete assignments linked to their spelling words.

A summary of our year so far

In English, we have enjoyed reading Stone Age Boy and writing our own stories about a character travelling back in time. To complement our Antarctica topic, we enjoyed reading Ice Palace and learning about figurative language including similes and metaphors. 

In Maths, we are becoming more confident working with larger numbers and developing our mental arithmetic skills. We have been learning formal written methods for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using these to solve word problems. We have also learnt how to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000.

In History, we have enjoyed learning about the chronology of mankind and using archaeological evidence to find out about the Stone Age, Bronze and Iron Age. 

In Geography, we have learnt about how latitude and longitude link to climate and the physical and human features of polar regions with links to the explorer, Shackleton.

In P.E, we have been developing our tennis skills, practising our forehand and backhand techniques and getting to play on proper tennis courts.