This week's Learning in Year 4 at a glance!
Year 4
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Learning Link: The Amazing AmazonThis term we will be learning about the Amazon Rainforest and the plants and animals that live there. We will be exploring the differences between the Amazon climate and our own, and how the people and creatures have adapted to live there. Crucially, we will be learning about how important rainforests are to our planet’s health and how we should protect them. As part of this learning journey, we will be reading and writing stories from the Amazon as well as writing persuasive letters. We will also be finding out about how rainforests have inspired artists and musicians. |
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St Gemma: Mrs Grove Mr Jones St Wilfred: Mr Burnip |
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Curriculum Newsletters for Autumn, Spring and Summer can be accessed here as they become available |
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Year Group reminders |
Week Commencing: 27th April 2026 Week A Please make sure your child has their school reading book and homework diary every day in school. Monday: Tuesday: PE for both classes Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Looking further ahead:
Reminders: PE for Year 4 will be every Tuesday and on a Monday in WEEK B. Please ensure your child has a named glue stick. A Pritt Stick costs £1 and can be bought from your child’s class teacher or from the stationery shop each morning by the front office. We will be spot checking children’s uniforms, please make sure they are named as well as water bottles and snack boxes. |
Homework |
Please make sure your child has their school reading book and homework diary every day in school. Reading - please continue to read for up to 20 minutes each day and record in the reading record. There are questions in your child’s homework diary to support their comprehension further. Please record the questions you have asked in your child’s reading record, e.g 4a, 6c, 8b. CGP Homework books: Please complete Maths and English Summer 1 for Monday 20th April. Please complete Maths and English Summer 2 for Monday 27th April. Spellings: These will be set on a Friday and due in on the following Friday. |
Reading for Pleasure |
4G: Peanut Jones and the Illustrated City 4W: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone |
RE |
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH We will learn what it means to be an apostle and explain why the Church is ‘Apostolic’. |
English |
WRITING We will continue to write and edit our creative diary entry based on Maia’s journey to the Amazon. Master Readers: Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson Monday: Whole class reading of text Tuesday: Book Club Wednesday: Modelled comprehension Thursday: Independent comprehension Friday: Review and vocabulary focus Focus vocabulary this week: embroidery, sullen, agitation, conspiracy, dastardly, stow away |
SPAG |
Spelling Purple group with Mr Burnip and Mr Jones: To spell words with irregular patterns Red group with Mrs Farage: To spell words with irregular patterns Blue group with Miss McLachlan: To spell words with irregular patterns Yellow group with Mrs Grove: To spell words with the split digraph ‘u-e’ Grammar Informal language, Powerful past tense verbs, Adverbs of time, Apostrophes of possession |
Maths |
FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS Pupils develop their understanding of hundredths as fractions and decimals and learn how dividing by 10 and 100 affects numbers. Focus is on accurate use of place value, recognising connections between fractions and decimals, and applying this in calculations. Gaps are addressed by reinforcing place-value understanding, revisiting visual representations, and breaking learning into small steps to secure accuracy and confidence. |
Science |
STATES OF MATTER Pupils learn that some materials behave as both liquids and solids depending on the force applied, known as non-Newtonian fluids, and explore this by making their own. Focus is on describing how the material changes under pressure and using correct scientific vocabulary. |
Art |
ART TECHNIQUES We will be creating our own frottage (making artwork by rubbing over a textured surface) leaf design. |
Computing |
LOGO We will look at the use of the procedure tool to draw shapes in Logo. |
History |
RAINFORESTS Pupils learn what a rainforest is, where rainforests are found and some of their key features. Focus is on understanding climate, location and basic characteristics of rainforest environments. |
French |
To learn the words for 10 sports. |
Music |
We will copy rhythms using high and low sounds on the djembes. We will use our knowledge of stick notation to notate a rhythm we hear. |
PE |
Athletics Children will demonstrate sprinting and running over varying distances. They will continue to develop throwing techniques such as a shot push. Children will jump with control and balance and with some accuracy and power into a target area. Cricket Children will understand rules of bowling and batting and application of underarm and overarm throwing combined with specific throwing techniques for Cricket e.g. bowling. Children will apply new fielding and batting techniques and learn to striking a ball after a bounce. OAA (Outdoor Adventurous Activities and team building) Children will orientate a map, develop co-operation and observational skills. Navigate around a map and draw a route using directions. Communicate and listen as a team. |
Learning for Life |
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING This lesson will encourage children to see through the fake reality that is presented to them on television, in magazines and on adverts: they will compare these representations and stereotypes to their own life experiences. Children will also consider how the polished ‘reality’ of the media can affect how people feel about themselves. |