4C 2025 - 2026
Mrs Collins
Welcome to our Year 4 class page
We have some exciting topics coming up this year, starting with The Ancient Greeks. We will find out where Ancient Greece was and what the legacies of the empire were. We will link art to this by looking at sculpture and in Design Technology we will look at inventions inlcuding levers.
English
In English, we will starting some brand new 'Talk for Writing' units of work. The first of these will be a whole school project on the traditional tale: Goldilocks. With Talk for Writing, we learn to tell stories, act them out, then imitate them to create our own. Outside of these lessons we will also work on spellings and reading each day and there will be a focus on correct letter formation for good handwriting.
Maths
We use the White Rose Maths scheme at Etchells. In Autumn, this focuses on Place Value - helping children to understand the value of a 4-digit number. We then work on addition and subtraction - it may be helpful to see if your child can remember how to add 1-digit numbers fluently as these are soemtimes forgotten. We have a big focus on times tables in Year 4 ready for the government Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) in June. We will check childrens' knowledge each week. Please support this at home by using TTRockstars which also allows us to track their progress
Supporting your child at home
If you can do anything at home, please support your child by hearing them read as often as you can. We will try to hear them read in school and support their learning with whole class comprehension but 1:1 reading really does help them progress in all subjects. They can read books we send home but also we encourage them to rerad books o their own choice.
We will learn the times tables ready for the Year 4 Multiplicaton Check but little extras at home will help. Children will also have Monday Maths and half-termly topic homework activities to choose from. A set of spellings will be sent home each week too. Many children struggle to tell the time so if you could work on this and also teach them how to count with money.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact either me on the door at the beginning or end of the day. Alternatively, please use the lks2@etchells.stockport.sch.uk email address and I will get back to you.
Many thanks
Mrs Collins
