Year 4 – Lower Key Stage 2
Year 4
Year 4 is when children are encouraged to develop their independent thinking, learning, and decision-making. Year 4 is also often the year that children earn their ‘pen licence’ –every child desires this accolade, and it can be an anxious time for children who struggle with handwriting. We spend time honing our students’ handwriting skills, allowing them the opportunity to build their stamina and presentation in every lesson.
English
- Spoken language – listen and respond, justify and articulate, discuss, present and evaluate
- Word reading – build vocabulary and understanding of unfamiliar words
- Comprehension – drawing inferences, identifying main ideas, retrieving and recording
- Transcription – prefixes and suffixes, homophones, possessive apostrophes, irregular plurals and dictation
- Handwriting – improve volume, legibility, quality and consistency of a joined-up style
- Composition – composing and rehearsing sentences, settings, characters and plots, paragraphs, evaluating, editing and improving
- Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation – extending sentences using conjunctions, present perfect tense, using nouns and pronouns and fronted adverbials effectively
Maths
- Number and place value – recognising place value in four-digit numbers, rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000, read, write, order and compare numbers beyond 1000,
- Addition and subtraction – add and subtract four-digit numbers using column method and begin to solve two-step problems
- Multiplication and division – recall multiplication facts up to 12×12, multiply and divide numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 and multiply and divide 2 and 3-digit numbers by one -digit using a formal written layout
- Fractions – equivalent fractions, counting in tenths and hundredths, find fractions of quantities, add and subtract fractions with the same denominator and recognise decimal equivalents
- Measurement – using standard units to measure, time-telling to the nearest five minutes in digital and analogue, counting and problem solving with money
- Measurement – converting and problem solving with different measure of length, weight and mass
- Shape – properties of triangles and quadrilaterals, identifying angles and finding lines of symmetry
- Statistics – interpret and present data and solve problems using information in graphs, pictograms and charts
Did you know that…
Your child will start getting more homework in Year 4. In the Summer Term, children will complete the Year 4 multiplication tables check, when children will be expected to recall their times tables from 1 to 12 in a timed test. At the beginning of every lesson, we use a range of times tables games such as ‘Daily 10’ and bingo to prepare children for this.
Group Classes
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What Our Parents Say…
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