Welcome to Blue Class - Year 4

Welcome to Brilliant Blue Class! We’re a creative, curious, and hardworking bunch who love exploring new ideas and working together. Our classroom is a place where learning is active, exciting, and full of discovery.

 

🛡️ This Half Term’s Topic: Magnificent Mountains

We’re diving into the fascinating world of the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. Through stories, drama, and historical enquiry, children will explore who these invaders were, why they came to Britain, and how they lived.

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📅 Year 4 Topics for 2025–2026

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📌 Key Information

• 🏃‍♀️ PE Days: Monday and Tuesday
  Children must wear their full PE kit to school. Earrings should be removed or covered with plasters.

• 📖 Reading Books: Sent home daily
  Children should read every night and return their book each day. Please sign their Reading Log at least once a week.

• ✏️ Spelling Practice: New spellings are set every Friday on Spelling Shed
  Weekly practice is essential—please support your child at home.

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📚 What We’re Learning

✍️ English

We’ll begin the half term by reading Everest, the inspiring story of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Children will:

• Explore setting and character descriptions using powerful adjectives and adverbs

• Write non-chronological reports linked to our mountain topic

• Develop diary writing skills with a focus on informal language and fronted adverbials

• Practise grammar skills including inverted commas for speech, expanded noun phrases, conjunctions, and prepositions

• Continue weekly spelling practice using Spelling Shed and Year 4 key words

🔢 Mathematics

This half term, children will focus on:

• Recalling and using the 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, and 12 times tables

• Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100

• Multiplying 2- and 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number

• Dividing 2- and 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number

🧠 History

We’re investigating:

• Who the Invaders and Settlers were
• Why they came to Britain and where they came from
• Raids, roles in society, and key places like Lindisfarne and Sutton Hoo
• Our enquiry question: Did the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons live peacefully together?

🧪 Science

We’re learning about sound:

• How it’s created through vibrations
• How it travels through different materials
• Parts of the ear and their functions
• Investigating how the size of the pinna affects volume

🏔️ Topic

Our topic, Magnificent Mountains, will take us on a geographical adventure. Children will:

• Use atlases to locate countries, continents, and oceans

• Learn about the Seven Summits

• Explore how mountains are formed

• Investigate mountain climates

• Study the Andes and the Alps

• Create their own model mountain ranges

🏃 PE

Children will develop skills in team games and movement. PE kits must be worn on both PE days.

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🏡 How You Can Help at Home

• Read with your child daily and sign their Reading Log

• Practise weekly spellings using Spelling Shed

• Talk about what they’ve learned in class

• Use books and websites to explore mountain environments

• Support times tables practice: 3×, 6×, 7×, 9×, 11×, 12×

• Try Hit the Button and Times Tables Rock Stars

📌 Please ensure your child brings a named water bottle every day.

 

Look out for our Parent Information Sheet below!