Year 4

In our final unit of the year, Year 4 will have a Geography focus as we explore rivers of the UK and the world to answer the question, ‘Why are rivers important to us?’ We can not wait to head to our local river (the River Blithe) and conduct field work through mapping and sketching. We will then learn about some of the most important rivers nationally and then internationally and how they create tourism in many forms.

During Science, we will continue with our ‘Electricity’ unit, further exploring electrical circuits through experiments and hands-on learning. We will be diagnosing issues with circuits and working physically with circuits to see if we can fix the problems. This will help us understand the role of electricians and explore job opportunities for the future.

In our other core subjects (English and Maths), we will be learning lots as always! In English, our text is ‘Gangsta Granny’, the instant David Walliams classic that will have us laughing and crying in equal measure. It will also allow us to learn about some key London landmarks ready for our trip to London at the end of the year. In Maths, we will be gearing up for the MTC. We will also be learning about time: how to tell the time and how to use time. We will then be exploring money and finally co-ordinates.

A great way to end a wonderful year of learning!

In this unit, Year 4 will be keeping our attention on History as we look at Roman Britain and look to answer the questions 'Did a Roman live where I live now?' and 'Were they good or bad for Britain?' We will be visiting the amazing city of Chester for a Roman experience that is once-in-a-lifetime as we branch out from our local learning around the Romans to see what they did nationally and what impact they had on Britain in the short and long-term.

During Science, we will be finishing our learning around 'States of Matter' and 'Changing States' by linking evaporation and condensation to the water cycle. This will be helpful in our final Geography unit of the year too! We will then be moving on to studying 'Sound' in depth. We will be taking part in many more exciting, hands-on experiments and experiences to test how far sound can travel, what sort of sounds we can hear and what pitch is.

In our other core subjects of English and Maths, we will be doing lots of exciting things! In English, we have moved on to writing about 'Matilda' after reading the text as our end of the day text during the last unit. The children thoroughly enjoyed the text and are looking forward to writing about it. In Maths, we will be focusing on arithmetic as ever as we prepare for Upper Key Stage 2, whilst we also continue to learn about fractions and decimals to!

In this unit, Year 4 will be turning our attention to History. We will be visiting Liverpool World Museum to 'Meet the Mummy' and find out all about Ancient Egypt. Our attention is on the early civilisations, including Ancient Egypt (where we will study them in-depth!), the Indus Valley civilisation and the Mayan civilisation. We will be using lots of historical enquiry skills such as comparing and using sources. 

During this core block, we will be continuing with our Teeth and Eating unit, looking at how animals have different teeth and comparing them to our own. We will also be looking in-depth at the digestive system - this will involve lots of different ways of showing it, from using equipment to recreate it to creating a stop motion video to showcase our learning. We then move on to looking at different states!

In our other core subjects of English and Maths, we will be doing lots of exciting things! In English, we have moved on to reading the amazing 'Place Called Perfect' - we've loved it so far!! Lots of our writing is going to be based around the amazing characters and their wonderful adventure. In Maths, we will continue to work hard to embed our number knowledge, as we look to smash multiplication and division!!

In this unit, Year 4 will be studying earthquakes and volcanoes. We will be recapping our previous learning about the local area, the UK and the world and then will be focusing on tectonic hazards. We will be exploring hazardous zones and how tectonic plates affect where an earthquake might happen. Having learnt this, we will then explore how volcanoes are formed and why they erupt. 

Our Science unit for this block has a focus on on living things. We will be learning about the different types of creatures that inhabit our world and how we can tell one from another through their characteristics. We will learn how to categories the living things that we know. We will then start another Science unit during this block of learning, focusing on teeth and eating. We will discover what makes a healthy body works correctly and how it affects other parts of our body, such as teeth.   

In English, we will be reading the amazing ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. The first in the series of (possibly) the most famous book in the world, this book will help us to ignite our love of reading and take us to amazing places – including Harry Potter World in London! We will be doing lots of writing about Harry Potter, including visiting our own forest at Crescent and writing about the Forbidden Forest. 

In Maths, we will be focusing on our place value and basic calculations. We will start by recapping our place value knowledge and then building up it with new learning. We will then focus on the main calculations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division! These will be the most important lessons we learn in Maths.