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: Wonderful Women!

We will be learning about inspirational women from history who changed the world through courage, creativity and determination. Below is an overview of what we’ll be exploring across the curriculum.

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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

This half term, we will be reading Big Dreams, Little People: Harriet Tubman and Her Story: Harriet Tubman. These texts will help us explore a range of writing genres, including:

• Non‑chronological reports using topic‑specific vocabulary

• Informal letters, focusing on:

  • Apostrophes for possession

  • Informal language

  • Fronted adverbials

We will also develop our drama skills through hot seating and freeze frames, helping us understand characters and events more deeply.

Our grammar focus includes:

• Using commas to mark clauses

• Comparative and superlative adjectives

• Spelling rules, especially suffixes and prefixes

⭐ New spellings are set on Spelling Shed every Friday. Regular practice at home is essential for Year 4 progress.

📖 Reading

Reading remains central to everything we do. Children should read every night, and we encourage you to talk with them about what they have read to support understanding and vocabulary development.

➕ Maths

This half term, we will be learning about:

• Factors and what they are

• Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100

• Using the column method to multiply 2‑ and 3‑digit numbers by 1‑digit numbers

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

• Measuring in centimetres, metres and kilometres

• Understanding perimeter and how to calculate it

• Finding the perimeter of rectangles, regular polygons and shapes on a grid

• Calculating missing lengths in rectilinear shapes

🕰️ History – Wonderful Women!

Our history topic celebrates women who made a significant impact on society. We will explore:

• The role of women throughout history

• Stereotypes around “a woman’s place in society”

• The lives and achievements of:

  • Dr James Barry

  • The Suffragettes

  • Harriet Tubman

  • Marie Curie

  • Frida Kahlo

  • Ada Lovelace

We will also discuss discrimination faced by women because of race, religion, beliefs, sex and class. By the end of the half term, children will understand how these remarkable women helped shape the world we live in today.

🏃 PE

PE takes place every Monday and Tuesday. Children must wear their PE kit to school on these days, including:

• Leggings/joggers

• T‑shirt

• Jumper

• Pumps or trainers

Earrings must be removed before school or covered with plasters. Staff cannot remove earrings for children.

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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!