Year 4 

Or teachers are: Mrs Shephard in Silver Birch Tree class and Mr Hill in Cedar Tree Class

 Mrs McDavitt, Mrs Osborne, Mrs Pearce, Miss Martin and Mrs Martin support our learning.

Summer 2025

Welcome back to the final term in Year 4 for what will be yet another busy, exciting and challenging time at Great Dunmow.  This term's experiences for the children are as follows:

English

The term has started with a focus on ‘Science Fiction’ which will be covered via The Iron Man by Ted Hughes and ‘Stories from a Different Culture’ will be addressed through Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naidoo. We will also focus on writing persuasive adverts and the work of Shakespeare through a study of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, finishing off the term with some performance poetry. Through all written work, we will be focussing on the development of key skills to improve organisation (paragraphs) and develop dramatic writing techniques.

Maths

We will begin by continuing to learn about DECIMALS (including partitioning in 10ths and 100ths, ordering, comparing, rounding and converting fractions to decimals).  Another area of coverage is TIME (including telling the time using 12 and 24 hour clocks, converting digital & analogue time, calculation problems involving time and converting seconds, minutes and hours). Whilst learning about MONEY, the children will cover the concepts of tenths and hundredths. ANGLES & TURN involving identifying and ordering angles, including those in polygons. The final area covered this term is STATISTICS where the focus will be on interpreting and drawing charts and line graphs.

Other subjects

In Spanish, the children will learn about wild & domestic animals, animal habitats, market and restaurant role play and The Three Little Pigs.

General Information

P.E.

Please make sure that children come in to school with all relevant P.E. equipment: shorts. t-shirt and appropriate footwear for indoor activities and a tracksuit and trainers for games sessions.  It is particularly important that the children hacve different footwear for indoor and outdoor sessions.  No jewellery is to be worn at any time during P.E. sessions - children must be able to remove their earrings - and long hair needs to be tied back.  Children will not be permitted to borrow kit from other children.  Please let us know if your child is unable to take part in any PE lesson.

In addition, please ensure your child has a water bottle in class.

• PEdays for this term are as follows:
  •  Monday (indoors) 
  •  Wednesday (outdoors)

Homework

• Reading – Children should be reading for 10minutes daily and recording in their reading record, where possible.
• Maths - A weekly task will be set for each group via Mirodo. Work will be set on a Tuesday and is to be completed by the following Tuesday
• Spelling- A weekly set of spellings (taken from the ‘Spelling Shed’ scheme used throughout the school) will be set and reinforcement work is covered in class. This work will be shared on a Tuesday and tested the following week.
• Literacy – A weekly task will be set on Mirodo. Work will be set on a Tuesday and is to be completed by the following Tuesday.
• Times Tables – Children should be working on their times tables daily. They need to log in to TTRockstars and other online portals to practise in preparation for the Multiplication Tables Check in the coming weeks.

Upcoming Events in Year 4

Residential – Wednesday 14^th – Friday 16^th May

Viking WOW Day – Tuesday 20^th May

Year 4 MTC – Week beginning 2^nd June

Essex Schools Food & Farming Day – Tuesday 24^th June (letter to follow)

If you have any further questions, and wish to speak to us, please do not hesitate to see us.

Mrs Shephard and Mr Hill

For further information about our curriculum – please see the long term plan below