Year 4 Newsletter Autumn 2 2025

The children will read for 15 minutes at the start of the day, 20 minutes at the end of the day and will read individually as often as possible. It is very important that they read on a daily basis at home, too. Please make sure your child has their book and planner every day so that they are ready to read and please record reading at home. We check the planners each week so that we can see what the children have read. If the children have finished the school’s reading scheme, then they are welcome to choose books to read from the free readers’ section of the Library or alternatively, a suitable book from home. Thank you to the parents that have kindly volunteered their time to listen to the children reading. If anymore parents/grandparents/carers are able to come into school each week to hear children read, this support would be greatly appreciated. Please let us know if you would like to help!

Times tables continue to be a big focus for us in Year 4. Children are becoming more confident in knowing their multiplication facts and their accuracy and recall continues to improve. If you could also encourage the children to use Times Tables Rockstars, Hit the Button and Maths Frame at home then that would also be fantastic. The logins for Times Table Rockstars are stuck in the front of their school planners. You can access the Maths Frame practise test, here: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

Children continue to bring spellings home to learn each week. Their spelling test is on a Tuesday morning and this is when they will be given their new spellings, too. These will be written in their planners and are set using the National Curriculum spelling rules for Key Stage Two.

English

During this topic, we will continue to follow the structure of Talk for Writing as we immerse ourselves in a recount and then use the techniques taught and follow the structure of a recount to write our own recount about our recent visit to Robin Wood.

After this, we will immerse ourselves in some well-known Grimm’s Fairy Tales and follow the structure of these classic tales to write our own. During this unit, we will focus on expanded noun phrases, paragraphing and speech punctuation.

History

In History this half term, we will be learning all about ancient Egypt and what daily life was like. We will also be learning about the mummification process and why people from ancient Egypt chose to bury their loves ones in this way.

PE

In PE this half term, we will be working outdoors (when the weather allows) to develop our skills in lots of different sports. Teamwork, communication and cooperation will be themes running throughout the lessons alongside the skill development.

RE

In RE this half term, we will be looking at how Jesus has been represented over the years. We will be discussing what sort of person Jesus was by examining representations of him in the Bible.

PSHE

In PHSE this half term, we will think about health and wellbeing. We will be learning how to look after both our physical and mental health.

DT

In DT this half term, we will be designing, making and testing a sling shot car. We will also consider the role of fastenings and evaluate their usefulness before deciding which fastening to use when making our own fabric book sleeve.