Year 4 2026 - 2027

Class Teacher: Miss Forshaw

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Davies and Mrs Frodsham

Spanish: Mrs J Edelston PE: The PE Academy

There is lots to look forward to in Year Four this year.  Long Term Plans and general information about life in Year 4 can be found in the 'Files to Download' section, further down this page.

Year 4 Autumn Learning Overview

English:

We will begin by exploring the animated short The Lighthouse, using it as inspiration for descriptive writing and creating a Lighthouse Keepers diary. We will then move on to further exploring  The Angelo-Saxon boy focusing on adventurous vocabulary and narrative skills.

As part of out Lighthouse Keeper unit of work, Year 4 acted as a Lighthouse keeper and asnwered questions they created to better understand the role!

Guided Reading:

Our Guided Reading topic links to our English and History topic, later this term. We have enjoyed starting The Angelo-Saxon boy and getting to know Magnus and his family and the role they played leading to one of history’s most famous battles in 1066.

Maths:

In maths we will be looking at Place Value, Addition and subtraction and multiplication and division with lots of practice on times tables to prepare for the Multiplication Tables Check.

Science:

This term we will be investigating electricity, learning about renewable and non-renewable sources of electricity. We will also be creating circuits to discover how electricity is transported from source to home.

Our year 4 learning journey

ART- This term year 4 have been amazing artists!

we have looked at the artist Giorgio Morandi and how he uses focal points on his work to draw attention to aspects of his work, we then usd contour lines and wax restists to create a peice inspired by his work. 

We aslo studdied Georgia O'Keefes work which inspired us to create work inspired by Harvest.

In PE we have started out Gymastics unit, we have had lots of practice working as partners to create balances!

Our Road Safety seminar was very informative for Year 4, we learned the correct way to cross roads and where to cross safely!

Welcome to our Year 4 represenitives!

We have our school council, Eco Club and 

In Geography we used maps to find the source and mouth of our local river! 

To investigate the density of a river as it meets the Mouth, we completed an experiment to test the density between fresh water and salt water, we were amazed by the results!