Year 4 2025/2026
Mr Emes 4E
emesg@leighton.cheshire.sch.uk
Mrs Jones/Mrs Sayer 4S
Other familiar faces to our classrooms:
Mrs Prince
Year 4 Autumn Overview
What are we learning?
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Subject |
Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Subject |
Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
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Maths |
Power Maths Place Value Addition & Subtraction Number Sense |
Power Maths Area Multiplication and Division Number Sense |
Art & Design |
Habitats Artist: Daniel Mackie painting, drawing, colour |
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English T4W |
The Whale Setting Narrative Newspaper Report |
Leaf Outsider Narrative Information Report - Polar bears |
D and T |
Seasonal Food & Healthy Eating (Food & Nutrition) | |
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Science |
Sound |
Electricity |
Humanities |
Europe (including Russia) Rivers |
Remembrance Day What did people have to sacrifice during the war - rationing Influential Person - Mary Seacole |
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Computing |
Coding |
Online Safety |
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What do Christians believe God is like? |
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P.E. |
Netball O.A.A. |
Basketball Hockey |
Music |
Ukelele lessons |
Ukelele lessons |
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Personal Development |
New Beginnings No Outsiders |
Family and Relationships No Outsiders |
German |
Welcome to School days, weeks, months, numbers to 20, school rooms and classroom objects |
My Town, Your Town fireworks poem, instructions, places in a German town, German shops' names |
Reminders
P.E. will now be on Thursday (Netball) and Friday (Outdoor Adventurous Activities) - please send your child into school wearing full PE kit on these days. A hat and/or sun cream protection may be needed in September.
Water bottles
Please clean the bottle each evening and send in with fresh water daily - not juice.
This helps us adhere to current safety regulations.
Supporting your child’s learning
Our Year 4 webpage contains links and guidance to involve you in your child's school learning journey. We very much view you as our team. Without your support, our aims are harder to achieve. This can be done through practising times tables, spellings and reading together.
Reading
We ask that children read for at least 30 minutes five times each week. Books sent home do not have to be completed all at once, and we strongly encourage an equal amount of questioning to ensure the text and vocabulary has been understood. If you are not sure how you can do this, please ask and look at this link https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-comprehension/ .
We have added a document that contains recommended reads for Year 4 children. We will do our best to update this as the year progresses. Please let us know if there is a book that your child has really enjoyed and wish to have added to this document.
We have found a website that contains a large number of book recommendations for all year groups. It is called 'The Reader Teacher' and can be located at https://www.thereaderteacher.com. Please let us know what you think of the recommendations.
Remember that when your child has read a book that they can complete a reading comprehension quiz on Accelerated Reader.
If you feel your child needs more books than we can provide, please look at the Cheshire Libraries catalogue of online books. Membership will be required.
Reading Online
Freckle and Times Tables Rockstars Online Platforms
The Multiplication Check will take place in June 2026. Please ensure your child spends at least three minutes on Times Tables Rockstars EVERY day. Focus on times tables in this order: x2, x5, x10, then x3 and x4, followed by x6 and x8, and lastly x9, x11, x7 and x12 times tables. Regular practice will ensure success.
Times Table Rockstars is a great learning platform for practising times tables.
Each week we ask that your child uses Freckle. Daily use is recommended, with Adaptive Maths, Fact Practice and Focus Skills accessed across the week. Tasks set by your teacher will appear in Rucksack. These will often need completing before any other Freckle questions can be answered.
Spellings
As well as looking out for spellings in our weekly email and the page section at the bottom of this webpage, by the end of Year 4 pupils are expected to read and spell the words listed below. Please give your child the best chance at learning these by choosing a few each week and practicing how to read and spell these. The Year 1 and 2 Spelling List is also available to view here.
Useful websites for learning at home...
KiVa Games http://data.kivakoulu.fi/game1/en/login.html