Year 3/4
Teachers - Miss Eatwell & Miss Wilby (3/4E)
HLTA - Miss Kauther
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Akroyd, Mrs Latif, Mrs Sadiq, Mrs Jasat, Mrs Mayet, Mrs Khot, Miss Knapton and Mrs Zareef
Year 4
Teachers - Mrs Hemingway (4H) & Miss Ritchie (4R)
HLTA - Miss Arshad
Teaching Assistants - Miss Jubb and Mrs Hussain
Below is the SUMMER TERM overview - this covers everything that your child will be working on throughout the summer term in Year 4.
For the full year overview of all subjects covered across this year group, please click on the Long Term Plan link below:
Year 4 Long Term Plan 2024-2025
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SUMMER TERM 2024/25 (downloadable doc)
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SPRING TERM 2024/25 (downloadable doc)
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - AUTUMN TERM 2024/25 (downloadable doc)
SUMMER TERM 2025
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Maths |
In Year 4, we follow a progressive approach ensuring the children get experience of mathematical concepts in blocks of a week or two weeks. They then revisit these concepts over the year to ensure they have mastered previous knowledge and understanding that has been taught. We encourage the children to be independent learners in maths and they utilise their Maths Toolkit to support their learning when required.
During the Summer term the children will learn about: 2d shape, angles and coordinates, measures- (money in context) with written addition and subtraction, fractions, place value ideas, assessment & consolidation, written multiplication and division with short multiplication and chunking TU/TU, measures mixed focus (money, time, length, capacity, mass), data handling & measurements, statistics.
Times Table Rock Stars
This year your child will take their multiplication check. This is a timed test similar to TT Rockstars so we highly encourage the children to practise their times tables and challenge themselves on TT Rockstars as often as possible.
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Literacy |
In Literacy, over the Summer Term, Year 4 will be looking at a variety of texts.
In the first half term, the children will be looking at explanation and persuasion texts and will have the opportunity to write some of these themselves about various topics, such as the ‘Snoozatron’.
In the second half of the term, the children will read and write about The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen including character description, speech, a diary entry and comparisons.
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PE Physical Education |
During Summer term 1, Year 4 children will be developing their physical skills in their PE lessons.
This will include: Unit 5: Physical.
Children will develop and apply their reaction and response and floor work balance through focused skill development sessions, healthy competition, cooperative games and group Personal Best challenges.
Unit 6: Health and Fitness.
Children will develop and apply their ball chasing and stance through focused skill development sessions, healthy competition, cooperative games and group Personal Best challenges.
PE Day: Wednesday
Children need to come to school in uniform and bring in their PE kits.
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Science |
Our first year 4 topic in science during the first half of term we will be studying Electricity to discover what we can do with this energy source! In this unit, the children will learn to identify common appliances that run on electricity; construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. They will also look deeper into understanding how circuits work.
In the second unit, Sound, children will look to discover how we can make different sounds. In this unit, the children will learn to identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating; recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear; find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it; find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it; and finally, recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.
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Music |
Year 4 will continue to listen to a Soul/Gospel Song by Bill Withers – Lean on Me. This unit will require the children to listen and appraise a new genre of music where new progressive Warm-up Games will be played. The children will use new progressive improvisation resources and a new tool for composing. We can’t wait to hear what the children create!
They will then move on to look at Blackbird by The Beatles – a song about civil rights. Children will listen and appraise, play progressive warm up games and perform their compositions. We can’t wait to hear what they come up with!
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MFL Modern Foreign Language (French) |
In French this term the children will be learning about French food, cafés, ordering and menus -‘Yum Yum’- or ‘Miam, Miam’! This unit introduces food vocabulary and revises numbers to 100, this time in the context of money and prices. The unit encourages children to develop their language detective skills and confidence with practical conversational French.
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Computing |
In the first term the children will be looking at a unit about hardware investigation, where they will learn the names and functions of the different hardware and parts that make up a computer/ laptop or device.
In the second half of the term children will be looking at animation, which will provide them with the knowledge and understanding to create simple and more complex animation using 2Animate on Purple Mash.
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PSHE Personal Social Health Economic Education |
In the first half term, our topic will be ‘Relationships’. We will be looking at how we can maintain positive relationships with our family, friends and others. The children will be identifying ways in which they can identify jealousy and express and give reasons why someone is special to them. They will also learn about how to deal with bereavement and how to deal with a loss of a family member. They will also learn about how relationships and friendships change as they get older and different people come in to their lives.
In the second half term, our topic will be ‘Changing Me.’ This topic will enable children to understand that their characteristics come from their birth parents. This topic will also be looking at how their bodies go through changes as they get older. Also another important topic which will be looked at is how social media affects their own self-image.
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RE Religious Education |
Over the summer term, in Year 4, the children will be exploring the big question:
How do different people express their spirituality?
This unit of work is based on ‘Expressing Beliefs’. This unit explores the concept of spirituality and focuses on creative ways in which spirituality may be demonstrated. The unit offers opportunities for pupils to experiment with and experience a range of creative arts as they explore how religious communities and individuals express beliefs and emotions.
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Art and Design |
The art and design topic for summer is sculpture. In this topic, children’s work will be influenced by a range of inspirational sculptors as they explore and use unusual objects to create their own 3D works of art. As well as having the opportunity to create drums and maracas from recycled materials, pupils also look at different techniques to create different effects.
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DT Design Technology |
During the Summer term, children will be making an electrical torch!
The children will evaluate a range of existing torches and then design a functional torch for a target audience. The constructed torch will have a working electrical circuit and switch. The children will use appropriate equipment to cut and attach the materials. They will finally test and then evaluate their completed product.
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Geography |
In this unit the children will be trying to answer our big question:
Where does our food come from?
Throughout this unit children will learn to identify that different foods grow in different biomes, explain which food has the most significant negative impact on the environment and consider changes people can make to reduce the negative impacts of food production.
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History |
Our History topic for the term is ‘Should I stay or should I go?’
Children will learn about Anglo Saxon invaders and settlers and the mystery of Sutton Hoo. They will discover why places are named like they are and look at what life was like in Anglo Saxon times including food, clothing and houses.
Spelling
We follow the spelling patterns from Spelling Shed.
The children can then use the website to practice their weekly spellings choosing the level of support they need. Each child in Year 4 has a copy of the spelling lists in their school book bag.
Children who are having phonics teaching will get spellings from their phonic phase.
We will also cover the spellings from the Statutory Year 3/4 list.
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Homework |
Every week on Friday (due in the following Tuesday) Year 4 children will be given a maths activity, either linked to their learning that week or revisiting a previously taught skill.
They will also be expected to:
- read their reading book and get their reading record signed x3 weekly
- Play on TT Rockstars and Spelling Shed games.
- Learn their times tables- the children will be told which timetable to learn.
- Learn their weekly spellings (each week has a different list focus that the children have been practising in school that week)
Each term Year 4 children will:
- be set their black book homework tasks. They need to be as creative as possible so it could include art work, writing, computer presentations, 3D models, posters etc. It is hoped an adult at home will work collaboratively with the child and help them with their learning and presentation. When this happens the work is often simply stunning!
Black book homework
Choose at least 3 activities from the list below to complete over the Summer term and during the half term holidays (due in on Monday 7th July 2025.)
You are going to share all your homework with your class mates and teacher. It could include art work, writing, computer presentations (printed out), 3D models, posters, photographs etc. You will have to explain to the class what you have done.
Homework for research to be completed in Black Books:
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Year 4 Summer Term 2025 Homework Tasks |
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We have been learning how to persuade someone in Literacy. Linking this to your DT work, can you write a persuasive piece (this could be a letter, leaflet, poster etc.) to persuade someone to buy your book sleeve. |
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In Geography we’re looking at where our food comes from. Choose your favourite foods and find out where they come from; are they good for the environment; their journey to our country; any other great facts/recipes about them. |
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We’re going to be look at Electricity! Make a poster or informative leaflet about the dangers of electricity. |
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Our History topic this term has been about invading and settling in Britain. Describe why people came to Britain… what was life like for them? Present in any way… |
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The summer holidays are coming up at the end of the term! Write about your ‘best bits’ of year 4 to share with year 3 before they start year 4. This can be presented however you like! |
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In French we have been learning all about French Food. Design your own menu! What would you have for the starter, main meal, dessert? Don’t forget to write the words IN FRENCH!
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