Year 4 Magnolia 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Magnolia!

Teacher: Miss King

Teaching Assistants: Miss Fryer and Miss Worth

Helping at Home!

Please read with your child every night at home to help them to become amazing, independent readers.  Please log your child's reading in their yellow diary.  Please aim to read 5 x per week to help them become fluent readers.

Our Home Learning this half term will be to access timestables.co.uk to practise our multiplication skills.  There are games and tests on the site, which can be accessed from any device.  In addition to this, weekly spellings will be sent out to practise at home.

Our Curriculum

English

In English, Year 4 are diving into the mysterious world of The Whale by Ethan Murrow, a wordless picture book that sparks endless imagination. Without any text, the story invites children to become storytellers themselves, piecing together the adventure through its stunning illustrations. This gives our young writers the chance to practise creativity, descriptive language, and storytelling skills while exploring big ideas like curiosity, discovery, and the unknown. We will be exploring how each person might  interpret the same images differently!

Maths

In Maths this term, we will be revisiting Place Value in more detail which will include representing and partitioning numbers up to 10,000, Roman numerals and rounding. Before moving on to Addition and Subtraction of 4 digit numbers with and without exchanging.

In addition to our maths lessons, we will also be learning and practising our multiplication tables recall. Year 4 will complete their multiplication check the week beginning the Monday 2nd June 2025.

Science

In Year 4, children will become geologists as they explore the fascinating world of rocks! They’ll discover how rocks are formed, investigate their different properties, and even learn how to group them into types like igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Through fun hands-on activities, children will compare textures, test hardness, and see how rocks are used in everyday life. They’ll also find out about fossils and what they can teach us about life millions of years ago.

Topic

This year, children will set off on an exciting journey to one of the most extreme places on Earth – Antarctica! They’ll discover what makes this icy continent so unique, from its freezing climate and towering glaciers to the incredible wildlife that survives there, like penguins and seals. Children will explore why Antarctica is so important for our planet, including its role in climate and conservation, and they’ll think about what it would be like to live and work in such a harsh environment. This unit encourages curiosity, wonder, and respect for one of the most remote and fascinating regions of the world.

P.E

Children are to still come to school in their PE kit for the day they are doing PE. PE kit consists of black shorts/tracksuit bottoms/leggings, a red t-shirt, their school hoodie and black trainers/pumps. Our PE day is Thursday.

This term we will be learning skills related to tag rugby. The unit of work will develop pupils’ ability to develop their evasion techniques whilst analysing their own performance. Pupils will progress to playing in competitive game scenarios.