Year 4 Summer Term 2026
Head of Year
Mrs M Anderson
Teachers
Mrs M Anderson (4A)
Mrs K Hirst (4H)
Mrs Huthswaite (4AH)
Miss A Corcoran (4C)
Mrs McCaffrey (4M)
Miss A Fiaz
Ms K Gadhia (4M)
Teaching Assistants
Mrs K Cornwall
Mrs Hewitt
Mrs S Hamid
Miss Kauser
Mrs Younis
Mrs M Raheel
Welcome back, we hope that you’ve enjoyed your break and are ready for a final term of learning in Year 4! We have an exciting Summer Term coming up, with a range of topics and learning to be covered.
What will we be learning?
This term we will be using the short film – The Piano. Through this we will explore themes, settings and flashbacks. We will also begin our learning in English around ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’. We will be focusing on understanding the features of diaries. Following this, we will be planning and creating our own diary entries. After learning about Jeff Kinney’s journey to becoming a world-renowned author, we will write biographies about his life. Throughout the year we have continued to inspire children to choose to read for pleasure and enjoyment. Focussed reading sessions will continue to take place to help strengthen fluency and comprehension skills in retrieving and inferring texts. Our weekly cracking comprehension sessions explore and understand a range of fiction and non-fiction texts. Home reading books are sent home weekly and we encourage parents to try to find time to read as often as possible; discussing books will help your child to become a better reader and help to continue develop their love of reading.
In Maths we will focussing on Measurements - area and time; Shape, reflection and translation and Statistics. We will be furthering our understanding of number problems and applying all concepts to reasoning and mastery activities. Developing fluency in these areas is also important and the children will also be encouraged to learn their times tables and numbers facts to help them develop their mental strategies. As part of our ‘catch up’ programme, Maths lesson ‘starter’ activities will focus on times tables and perimeter. As in the Spring term, we will continue to be a big push on ensuring that the children are secure in their times tables knowledge. We are hoping to see lots of children feeling like times tables rock-stars!
During Summer 1, we will be learning about rivers and the landscape that surrounds them and that they have different characteristics as they move from the upper course, into the middle course and lower course. During our work on Coasts, children will investigate what coasts are, how they are formed, how they are protected and why they are constantly changing. They will also understand that erosion can affect the coast and find out the names of some coastal formations. Alongside this, year 4 will also investigate how tourism has changed some coastal towns and the impact that this could have on the natural habitat. Throughout the whole of the summer term, we will explore our geography school themes of Location, Place, Relationships, Movements and regions.
Our PE sessions will be taught each week, allowing children to develop skills and team building. On their allocated PE days, children should come to school in their PE kit bottoms and their normal school polo shirt and sweatshirt (e.g., black tracksuit bottoms rather than trousers or skirts). Class teachers will let you know which days your child will have PE. In Summer 1, we will explore a variety of skills linked to summer Athletics such as throwing and jumping. We will also be completing Outdoor Adventurous Activities. In Summer 2, we will learn how Yoga can improve flexibility, balance and strength.
We are very excited about our new DT unit that will ask the children to research, design, make and taste a pizza! They will then go onto to look at still life to inspire them to create their final art piece this year that will be displayed in their class art exhibition.
Music in summer 1 will use rivers as an inspiration to help sing in tune. In Summer 2, Children will learn about the history of rock and roll music. This will require them to perform the hand jive. PSHE will provide pupils with opportunities to understand how we manage our feelings. Children will learn that feelings and emotions can affect our minds, behaviours and bodies.
During the second half term, we will be looking at how our choices affect others and the environment. We will look at how we care for other people, animals and the benefits of recycling etc. RE will look at ancient stories and grand narratives that underpin beliefs in Hindu Dharma, Christianity, Paganism, and Sikhism. They will explore how these stories have influenced the way people celebrate in modern times, and investigate how such stories have been retold in many different ways across generations.
French will cover food. Computing will cover coding and manipulating photographs. Please see the curriculum newsletter for more detail about other aspects of our learning.
What will I need to bring to school?
You need to return your home reading pack weekly as well as your homework book. What work will I need to do at home? English and Maths homework will be set every Wednesday and will need to be handed in on the following Monday. Please remember to encourage your child to read their home reading books regularly and return their pack to school each week.