Welcome to Year 4. We are really excited to be sharing the Year 4 curriculum with your children and getting to know you as parents. 

In Year 4, your children will be completing the Multiplication check in June 2026. To prepare the children for this, they will be practising the times tables as much as they can. To encourage the practise of these, they will compete in tournaments across the year within Year 4 as well as in houses on Times Table Rock Star. On paper, they will compete in Olympic maths where they aim to achieve their personal best at superstar status. 

In their maths lessons, as well as the multiplication tables, the children will learn place value, understanding the values of digits in numbers up to four digits. The children will continue to learn the formal written methods for the four operations with increasingly larger numbers.  

In English, across the year, children will focus on different genres for writing and learning grammar skills in the build up to their independent writing. Genres include; non-fiction texts, non-chronological reports, explanation texts as well as narrative writing. Over the year, children will have written texts to inform, entertain and persuade. They will be supported in their writing with their reading lessons, spelling lessons and listening to the end of the day class reading novel. Children will also enjoy visits to the library, where they can borrow books and have a quiet place to read. 

Furthering the children's understanding of British and world history, children will look at the legacy left on modern British society by the Ancient Greeks and the Romans and how Britain was settled by the Anglo-Saxons. They will get an understanding of a key aspect of the topic by linking key concepts, called golden threads, to history lessons previously learnt. 

In geography, children will learn about earthquakes and the reasons that people live near fault lines, particularly in California. They will use map skills, atlases and the digital resource, Digimaps, to deepen their understanding. They will also learn about biomes as well as volcanoes and the reasons that people live near them. 

During science, children will create investigations, experiments and questions with a focus on  the digestive system, electrical circuits, classification and habitats, sound and vibration and states of matter. 

As part of their PE learning, children will participate in two one-hour lessons every week focusing on netball, basketball, gymnastics, dance, Quidditch, rounders, cricket and athletics. 

Over the year, the children will benefit from having religious guests for Sikhism and Hinduism to develop their understanding of RE. They will also enjoy an overnight camping trip in the school grounds where they learn to make fires, pancakes and how to filter water. 

If you need to contact your child's class teacher, you can do so via the class email address:

hawthorn@brooklandjm.herts.sch.uk

Sycamore@brooklandjm.herts.sch.uk

Please do have a look at our Year 4 Meet the Teacher presentation below. 

Ms Xhaferraj and Mr Tailor