Year 4 2024 - 2025

Year 4: Mr Dalton’s Class

Summer Term 2025

Hello and welcome to our Year 4 class page. This is where you will find out all the relevant information you need about what we are learning at school.

My name is Mr Dalton and I am very excited to be teaching at St Mary of the Angel’s again this year. I am supported by Mrs Thompson-Jones and we have some really interesting things coming up this term.

Topic

This term, we will be learning all about Rivers and Mountains. Following on from our history-based topics, we will be focussing more on geography skills. We will study a wide range of objectives such as learning about the journey of a river and being able to name famous British and international rivers and mountains. Alongside our geographical work, we will also complete some interesting art and DT work including completing a challenge to make a bridge out of lollipop sticks.

English

In English, we will be using the fantastic Celia Godkin book ‘When the Giant Stirred’ as inspiration for our writing. We will use this beautiful book about a boy’s trip to the rainforest to help us create an information board about the rainforest. Alongside this we will be using Jen Green’s non-fiction book ‘Rainforests in 30 Seconds’ to assist us in finding out key information. Throughout this, we will be continue having a significant focus on basic skills such as handwriting, punctuation and grammar. During our guided reading sessions, we will focus on understanding the author’s voice, using our rainforests topic as inspiration for our texts.

Our class novels for this term are Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson and The Ghost of Grania O'Malley by Michael Morpurgo

Maths

After embedding our understanding of the four operations, we will move to working on maths in more practical areas. As we get closer to the Multiplication Tables Check we will continue to focus on improving our skills in this area. We will also start to look at using our maths skills to help us better understand areas such as money, time and statistics. Between these difficult tasks, we will continue to use our skills for interesting investigations.

RE

Our RE unit will be based on Ends of the Earth and after the half-term, Dialogue & Encouter. We will be increasing our understanding of the role of the Church and the Apostolic tradition as well as learning about St Paul and his journeys. We will also learn about Islam and the holy month of Ramadan.

Other Subjects

We also have lots of exciting learning planned across other subjects such as Music, PE, Spanish, Forest School, Computing, Art and Technology.

PE Days

Monday afternoon: Athletics with Mr Dalton

Tuesday morning: Dance with the Dance Teacher

Forest School

Unless stated otherwise, our Forest School dates for this year are as follows:

26th September

21st November

30th January

27th March

15th May

Please ensure that your child comes to school on these days dressed accordingly to the weather forecast in old clothes which you don’t mind getting dirty.  During the winter months it will be imperative that the children are wrapped up with multiple layers.

Homework in Year 4

All homework, including spellings, will be set on a Friday. Spelling tests will be on a Friday.

Homework and spellings will be accessible via Google Classroom.