Welcome to Blue Class - Year 4

Welcome to Brilliant Blue Class! We’re a creative, curious, and hardworking bunch who love exploring new ideas and working together. Our classroom is a place where learning is active, exciting, and full of discovery.

Mrs Hemingway

Class Teacher

 

Mr Charles

Class Teacher

 

 

N Manion

Miss Mannion

ETA

 

🚨This Half Term’s Topic: Emergency! Emergency! 🚒

This half term our topic is “Emergency! Emergency!” 

Throughout this topic, the children will explore important global issues such as climate change and its impact on the world. They will develop their understanding of how human actions affect the environment and learn about ways we can help protect our planet.

This is a summary of some of the learning we will be covering.

 

📅 Year 4 Topics for 2025–2026

Term Topic
🍂 Autumn 1 ⚔️ Invaders and Settlers
🛡️ Autumn 2 🏔️ Magnificent Mountains
🌟 Spring 1 🎯 Wonderful Women!
🌊 Spring 2 🏛️ Ancient Civilisations
🏺 Summer 1 🌍 Raging Rivers
🚨 Summer 2 🚒 Emergency Emergency!

📌 Key Information

🏃‍♀️ PE Days: Monday and Thursday Children must wear their full PE kit to school. Earrings should be removed or covered with plasters. Staff cannot remove earrings for children.

📖 Reading Books: Sent home daily Children should read every night and return their book each day. Please sign their Reading Log at least once a week.

✏️ Spelling Practice: New spellings every Friday on Spelling Shed Weekly practice is essential—please support your child at home.

 

📚 What We’re Learning

 

📖 English

  • We will explore a range of writing genres, including non-chronological reports and persuasive writing 📝
  • The children will continue to develop their descriptive writing skills using expanded noun phrases, adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions to add detail and interest. We will also focus on spelling key words, practising weekly spellings and forming letters correctly ✏️

New spellings are set on Spelling Shed every Friday. Regular practice at home is vital for Year 4 progress.

 

📚 Reading

Reading continues to be a key part of Year 4. This half term we will:

  • Read daily in class to build fluency and confidence

  • Develop inference, retrieval, prediction and vocabulary skills

  • Discuss characters, themes and author choices

  • Encourage reading at home every night

  • Ask children to talk about what they have read to check understanding

Reading Logs help us track progress and celebrate effort.

 

🔢 Mathematics

  • We will be learning about geometry and statistics, including shapes, symmetry and data handling 📊
  • The children will explore triangles, quadrilaterals and other polygons, as well as lines of symmetry and creating symmetrical figures.
  • They will also interpret charts and line graphs, compare data and develop their understanding of coordinates, including plotting points and translating shapes on a grid 🧭
 

🌍 Geography 

  • As part of our “Emergency! Emergency!” topic, we will learn about climate change and its impact on the world. We will explore global warming, greenhouse gases and how human actions affect the environment.
  • We will also learn about the work of climate activists such as Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg, and discuss ways we can help reduce climate change in our daily lives ♻️
 

🔬 Science 

  • In Science, we will be learning about Living Things and Their Habitats. We will explore the seven life processes and how all living things grow and survive.
  • The children will learn to classify animals into groups, use classification keys and understand how environments can change due to human impact 🐾
 

🤸 PE

PE takes place every Monday and Thursday. Children must wear their PE kit to school on these days, including:

  • Leggings/joggers

  • T‑shirt

  • Jumper

  • Pumps or trainers

Earrings must be removed before school or covered with plasters. Staff cannot remove earrings for children.

🏡 How You Can Help at Home

  • Read with your child daily and sign their Reading Log

  • Practise weekly spellings using Spelling Shed

  • Talk about what they’ve learned in class

  • Support times tables practice: 3×, 6×, 7×, 9×, 11×, 12×

  • Try Hit the Button and Times Tables Rock Stars

📌 Please ensure your child brings a named water bottle every day.

 

Look out for our Parent Information Sheet below! 

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Page last reviewed: June 2026