Year 4

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Welcome to Year 4!

On this page, we will share important dates and information for reference throughout the year, as well as celebrating the fantastic learning happening in Year 4. 

Year 4 Staff Team:
Mr T Locke (4L Class Teacher and Lower Key Stage 2 Phase Leader)
Mrs C Croton (4C Class Teacher)
Mrs M Hodgens (Teaching Assistant)
Mrs K Leicester (Teaching Assistant)
Miss M Salem (Teaching Assistant)

Important Information 
Please ensure children are equipped with kit for both indoor and outdoor lessons. Where children have ear piercings, they must remove these for PE and be capable of taking out their own jewellery. Please see our uniform policy for further information. Our P.E lesson will be on a Wednesday afternoon.

Forest schools is currently on a Thursday afternoon.

Homework continues to be set on a Wednesday and due on a Monday. Please check your children's diaries regularly, signing weekly, and look out for any further communication in them.

Y4 have violin lessons. 4C will now have these lessons on a Wednesday afternoon until the end of the academic year.

Summer Term

We are now heading through our final term in Year 4 and the children just keep going from strength to strength! Before we know it, they'll be off for their new Year 5 adventure.

English

This half term, Year 4 have been immersed in Honesty & Lies by Eloise Williams. It tells the story of Honesty, a young Welsh girl who arrives in Tudor London fleeing from an unsuitable marriage. There, she meets Alice, a maid at Greenwich Palace serving no other than Queen Elizabeth I. Alice is hiding a terrible secret which threatens to endanger the lives of herself, Honesty and even the Queen. Children are loving the text as it adds further context to our current History unit, The Tudors.

History

Speaking of The Tudors, we are well underway learning about this treasonous, dramatic time in British History. We have studied how the Tudors lived very differently in contrast to our previous history focuses, the Vikings, and charted the events of the Battle of Bosworth which led to Henry VII's coronation and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty. We scrutinised his family tree and the many wives of his son, Henry VIII. Soon, we are going to be looking more closely at the real people of the Tudor times, including looking at the under-represented Black history and how ordinary people, rich and poor alike, lived during this time. This is always a popular unit in Year 4 due to the drama, the backstabbing of the royals in power and the contrast to how we live our lives today.

Maths

We are now just short weeks away from our Multiplication Table Check. Children have made such outstanding progress in this hugely important area of maths. While of course children are so proud to get that score as high as possible, what we are especially pleased with is the way children are able to apply their increasingly secure knowledge of times tables: they are more efficient, accurate and confident when tackling their maths in lessons. As children approach their transition to UKS2, this will only serve to support them as the curriculum grows more challenging. We are all so proud of all of Year 4! 

Thanks, as always, for your ongoing support.

Mrs Croton and Mr Locke

November 2025

Wow! The first half term has flown by and all of a sudden we find ourselves gearing up for Christmas. The children have settled beautifully into the year group and it was a pleasure for us to meet so many parents at our parents' evening to share how well everyone is getting on.

In Maths, we have focused largely on number and we've already started working hard on fluency within times tables ahead of our MTC in June. Times Table Rockstars has taken a bit of a battering from our Y4s! We've also begun working on our understanding of shape, specifically looking at properties of 2d shape and reflection. In English, we've been loving reading How To Train You Dragon and being inspired to write to entertain and inform through poetry, descriptions and non-chronological reports. 

Year 4s always love our current Science unit based on Teeth and the Digestive System. Staring into mirrors, counting our teeth and identifying the types we have and making interactive models to represent them has been enormous fun and made our learning real. We've recently started our learning about the Digestive System and soon we'll be creating a real-life model... watch this space!!

Elsewhere in the curriculum, 4L have been busy starting their learning with violins while 4C has been exploring Stravinsky's Firebird Finale in their music lessons. Mrs Croton has been especially impressed by her class' creativity when composing and improvising around the tune we've learnt. 

Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't share the outcomes of our Autumn Art unit. Children's drawings in sketchbooks just got better and better and the final piece - our clay dragon eyes - were showstoppers! Thank you so much to everyone who supported our Family Learning event when these were made.

The countdown to Christmas is now well and truly on so please check children's reading diaries for the Christmas calendar and check the school calendar for dates of performances and the pantomime. 

Thanks, as always, for your ongoing support.

Mrs Croton and Mr Locke

 

Welcome back!
September 2025

Welcome back to a new academic year at Leasowes. We are so excited to welcome back the brand new crop of Year 4s. The Autumn term is a busy one around school, so we encourage all parents to spend some time looking at the Parent News tab, specifically the School Calendar where all important dates for the year (that have already been organised!) have been added. An early date for your diary is our Meet the Teacher night on Wednesday 10th September where you can meet your child's new teacher and learn about what to expect in Year 4. If you can't make it, the slides/information will be added to the bottom of this page following the meeting.

We start off the year group with a brilliant focus in History on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. This is further strengthened with our reading of Cressida Cowell's 'How to Train Your Dragon' - the teachers' firm favourite of the year! We will be learning about how Britain changed after the fall of the Romans and how these settlers/invaders (you decide!) changed this country throughout this time in history. 

Across the curriculum, we will be looking at the importance of Harvest in RE ahead of our Harvest Festival celebrations in October. In PSHE, we will be considering our feelings and those of others in our unit entitled 'Being Me in My World'. Our artwork will initially focus on the work of MC Escher and culminate in brilliant clay dragon eyes.

In Maths, we always start the year by ensuring children have a solid grounding in the basics of place value, use of the four operations and the number system. As you will no doubt be aware, in Y4 children undertake the Multiplication Tables Check in June and we are already supporting children to do their best, beat their scores and reap the rewards of being fluent in their tables across the maths curriculum. We thank you for your ongoing support in this. 

Homework continues to be set on a Wednesday and due on a Monday. Please check your children's diaries regularly, signing weekly, and watch out for any further communication.

Thanks,
Y4 Team