Welcome to Year 4

Teacher: Mr Villarrubia

Key days

PE: Fridays

Year 4 swimming: Thursdays

Summer Term 2026

Welcome back to Year 4! 

On this page, you will find information about any keys dates such as, PE days and assemblies, as well as lots of information about what we will be learning about in each subject this half term. There are also lots of useful links to help you with your learning.

On our class page, you will be able to find information about this half term's learning.

At the top of this page, I have attached this year's topic overview and this half-term's spelling sheet.

English

During this half-term, will explore and read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to create a character description of the White Witch and the world of Narnia. We will also be a focus on using oracy to promote meaningful, engaging and respectful conversations between pupils. Pupils will use oracy skills to analyse characters' personalities, their motives and intentions.

For our Guided Reading sessions, we will continue to focus on our VIPERS (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanation, Retrieval and Summarising) skills. We will continue to apply our growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that we discover. We will also be reading further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between their spellings and sounds, and where these occur in the word. 

Maths

This half-term, we will learn about place value, addition and subtraction, area, multiplication and division. We will look at real-life problems that require reasoning and problem-solving skills.

As ever, knowing your multiplication and division table facts will help you to be an efficient mathematician who can notice connections and patterns.

Throughout the year, we ask that children try to play on TTRockstars each week. Even 5 minutes, 3 times a week can make a huge difference to your times table recall.

All children have been provided with logins for TTRockstars and My Maths but if you have lost your logins, please see your class teacher.

Geography- Local area study

This term, we will learn about:

- identify the main events in the history of Withington 

- identified how the land use has changed in Withington 

- explore the reasons why the population of Withington suddenly increased 

- investigate the human and physical features along the trainline to Manchester 

- explore what happening in Britain in the 1800s 

Science 

This term we will learn about the states of matter:

- compare and group materials together.​ 

- observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled (melting and freezing).​ 

- measure the temperature at which solids melt. 

- observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled (evaporation and condensation).​ 

- identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle. 

- investigate how temperature affects the speed of evaporation. 

Religion

This half-term, we will be learning about the Creation and Covenant:

- explore the figure of Abraham

- be able to explain the covenant between God and Abraham

- identify the main events in the life of Abraham

- demonstrate understanding of Abraham's love for God

- explore how the relationship between God and Abraham is the foundation of faith

Home Learning

All Y4 children bring home their red homework book on a Friday. Homework should be returned by the following Thursday.

- 1 spelling sheet to practice this week's words

- Weekly times-tables practice

As well as this, all children are expected to read and complete online activities as described below. 

Every other half-term, we also send a Learning Log project with a range of creative tasks for children to complete at home.

PE

This half term you will need to come into school wearing your PE kit each Thursday.

Swimming

All Year 4 children will be swimming every Wednesday - children should come to school dressed in their school uniform on this day.

Clothing requirements for School Swimming are as follows:

Girls:

• One-piece swimming costume – no bikinis*
• A swimming hat is required to be worn if the hair covers the eyes or airways
• A towel

* Please note that in order for your child to benefit from the swimming lessons appropriate aquatic clothing must be worn. Should your children wish to wear items of clothing that cover up parts of the body, there are specific aquatic clothing designed for this purpose. Cotton leggings are detrimental to teaching and are a risk to health and safety.

Boys:

• A pair of traditional swimming trunks
• A swimming hat is required to be worn if the hair covers the eyes or airways
• A towel 

No Bermuda or long shorts are allowed - for reasons of safety the swimwear should be sufficiently tight fitting to allow the freedom of body and limb movement without causing unsafe water resistance.  

Jewellery of any description should not be worn in the school swimming lessons.  It is important that earrings in particular are removed.

Goggles are only permitted for medical reasons.  Parents must produce a letter from either a Doctor or an Optician to state that your child has a medical condition and is required to wear goggles in the school swimming lessons.

Thank you for your continued support.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the school office.