Year 4 - Miss Austin & Mrs Keevil 2025 - 2026

Hello, and Welcome to Year 4. 

We hope you have had a lovely Christmas break and are ready for lots of fun and learning as we enter Spring 1. 

We are Mrs Keevil and Miss Austin, Miss Austin will teach Monday and Tuesday, Mrs Keevil will teach Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Miss Johnson is our learning support assistant. 

PE this half term will be on a Tuesday and Friday please come to school in our school P.E kit. 

There will be two sets of reading books this year, a colour banded book and a reading for pleasure book. These will be changed once a week when planners have been signed.

In Key Stage Two homework will be set as a grid, with the children expected to complete one question a week from the grid. We also expect children to have read 3 times a week, practiced TT Rock stars and their spellings. Reading at home will be monitored weekly.

Spellings will be sent home on Mondays and put on our class page and there will be an informal spelling test in class on Fridays.

Children can bring in a healthy snack for break time or purchase toast for the term on the school app. 

Reminder- reading journals to be brought to school daily. 

No pencil cases or stationary from home are needed in school. Thank you. 

We have lots of interesting learning coming up this half term.

In English we will be finishing our final piece of writing on Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker. We will then move on to Leon and the Place Between by Graham Baker-Smith.

In Guided Reading we will be reading The BFG and a poem 'From a railway carriage'

In Maths we will learning all about area and perimeter and continuing are work on methods for multiplication, linking this with fractions.

In History we will learning continuing all about Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. 

In Geography we will be learning all about Volcanoes.

In Science we will investigating Electricity.

We will of course be practicing our creative skills in our music and our language skills in our French lessons. 

We will also be having an exciting DT week this half term. 

Mrs Keevil, Miss Austin and Miss Johnson