Year 4
Year 3/4 Phase Leader - Mrs Hemingway (3HE)
Teachers - Mrs Ward (4W) & Miss Ritchie (4R)
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Mayet, Mrs Khot, Miss Jubb, Mrs Hussain, Mrs Nadat and Mrs Ravat
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 2025-2026
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SUMMER TERM 2025/26 (downloadable doc)
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - SPRING TERM 2025/26 (downloadable doc)
PARENTS' OVERVIEW - AUTUMN TERM 2025/26 (downloadable doc)
SUMMER TERM 2026
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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: Mental & written multiplication & division multi step problems mixed operations, 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 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 Summer we will be using Purple Mash to:
- Code
- Compose beats
- Introduction to AI
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PSHE Personal Social Health Economic Education |
In the first half term, our topics will include: Engage and Keeping Safe.
In the second half term, our topic will include: Economic Wellbeing and Ourselves growing and changing, transition.
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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 a Local History Study.
We will be looking at History in our local environment and comparing and contrasting what it would have been like to live in this time. Would you prefer to live in the past or now?
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 up to 12 x 12
- 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
This is your chance to show off what you can do now you are in Year 4! 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 6th July 2026)
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 2026 Black Book 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 electrical torch. |
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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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Our History topic this term has been about History in our local area. Share what you have found out about where we live. What did it used to be like? Present in any way… |
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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, desert? Don’t forget to write the words IN FRENCH! |
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