Year 4
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Year 4 Team 2025/26 - Teacher Letters
The Wider Curriculum
DT
In DT, the children will be using their knowledge of electricity and circuits to design and make a Christmas light up decoration. We will be exploring existing products and creating a product with a target consumer in mind.
RE
Our focus religion for this half term is Islam. The children will be thinking about the different ways that Muslims show their beliefs and why it is important for them to pray fives times each day. We will also explore how Muslims believe that Muhammed is the messenger of God and that he is the last prophet.
Geography
We will be exploring how the UK is divided into different areas. The children will use their map skills to locate different counties. The children will investigate the human and physical features that can be found in different counties.
Science
The children will be learning about sound and thinking about how sound is made. They will look at the ear and explore how vibrations travel though the ear. The children will investigate how pitch and volume can be changed. They will make string telephones to help them to explain how sound travels.
Computing
The children will be about what spreadsheets are and the purpose of them. We will be looking at different spreadsheets and consider how the information is presented and why it is useful. The children will be using a spreadsheet program to create their own spreadsheets.
Jigsaw
Our Jigsaw puzzle piece this term is Celebrating Difference. We will be thinking about how that, sometimes, we make assumptions based on what people look like. We will think about how we are special and what makes each of us unique.
PE
This term, we will be looking at invasion Games such as rugby, football and netball. In dance, the children will be learning hip hop and line dance styles and thinking about how these are different.
English
Reading
In reading, we will be reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. This is a fantastic and at times heartbreaking story of a lost china rabbit who finds the real meaning of kindness through the people he meets. The children will be applying their skills of retrieval and inference to both this book and a range of other texts types including poetry and non fiction texts.
English
The children will be using The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo to think about the skills the author uses to weave the story. We will be exploring emotive language and thinking about how our choices as a writer shows this. The children will be thinking about how fronted adverbials help guide the reader and what impact this has on their understanding. They will use this skill to help them write a diary entry from Edward’s perspective.
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Maths
Maths
The maths focus this term will be addition and subtraction. The children will be using practical resources to show their deeper understanding of the process of these calculation methods. We will be using a range of pictorial representations including bar modelling before introducing the children to formal written methods.
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