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Year 4
Carroll, Lewis and Morpurgo Classes
The Year 4 Topics
Our curriculum is taught through three main topics (one per term) and cross-curricular links are utilised wherever possible. We follow the National Curriculum, full details of which can be found HERE.
All Year 4 children receive Spanish and music lessons once a fortnight, taught by specialist teachers and the children also receive 2 hours of PE each week. Class trips are often organised to enhance a topic and support the learning taking place at school.
Click the links below to see the Parent Overview for each topic:
Objectives for Year 4
At the end of year 4, in order to achieve Age Related Expectations, children need to be able to:
Reading
- Read exception words.
- Apply their knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words.
- Identify and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing.
- Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence.
- Predict what might happen from details stated and implied.
- Identify and summarise main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph.
- Retrieve and record information from non-fiction.
Writing
- Spell most words from the Year 4 spelling list.
- Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.
- Use paragraphs to organised ideas around a theme.
- In paragraphs, create settings, characters and plot.
- Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.
- Use conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause.
- Use fronted adverbials
- Use inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech.
- Use apostrophes to mark plural possession
- Use commas after fronted adverbials.
- Use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense.
- Use standard English forms for verb inflections.
Mathematics
- Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000.
- Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers and identify negative numbers in context.
- Order and compare numbers beyond 1000.
- Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
- Solve addition and subtraction two-step problems in contexts, deciding which operations and methods to use and why.
- Recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12.
- Multiply using formal written layout: 2-digit numbers by a 1-digit number, 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number.
- Count up and down in hundredths and recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred.
- Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
- Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths and hundredths.
- Recognise and write decimal equivalents to ¼, ½ and ¾.
- Convert between different units of measure: kilometre to metre / hour to minute / kilogram to gram / litre to millilitre.
- Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares.
- Read and write time on analogue and digital 12 and 24hr clocks.
- Convert between 12- and 24-hour clocks.
- Identify lines of symmetry in 2D shapes presented in different orientations.
- Describe positions on a 2D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant.
- Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs.