Year 4

Welcome to Year 4 

Year 4 – Spring term 2026: Long Term Overview

Children will be learning and applying new spelling patterns each week and will take part in regular Times Table Rock Stars sessions to improve their fluency in multiplication facts.

Children will be heard read at least every two weeks and will take part in group discussions to develop fluency, inference and vocabulary.

Welcome Message

Great start to Year 4, thank you all for your efforts. I hope you have an enjoyable year ahead.

English

• Entertain: Narrative – Leon and the Place Between

• Poetry: Haiku – The Works

• Persuade: Letters – Malala's Magic Pencil

• Inform: Non-chronological report (newspaper report)

Maths

Geometry and Measurement (Weeks 1–2, 2 weeks, 11 steps)

1. 4LS13 – Perimeter (step 4: optional step)

2. 4LS14 – Properties of shape

3. 4LS15 – Symmetry (amalgamate steps 1 and 2)

Steps per topic: 3, 4, 4

Decimals and Measurement (Weeks 3–6, 4 weeks, 18 steps)

1. 4LS16 – Decimal numbers

2. 4LS17 – Calculating with decimals

3. 4LS18 – Measure: money

4. 4LS19 – Problem-solving involving decimals to two decimal places

Steps per topic: 7, 6, 2, 3

Fractions (Weeks 7–9, 3 weeks, 16 steps)

1. 4LS20 – Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator

2. 4LS21 – Finding fractions of quantities

3. 4LS22 – Fractions in the context of measure

4. 4LS23 – Equivalent fractions, ordering and comparing

Steps per topic: 4, 5, 3, 4

Multiplication (Weeks 10–11, 2 weeks, 6 steps)

1. 4LS24 – Multiply two- and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using a formal written layout

Steps per topic: 6

Science

• Living things and thier habitats

Curriculum

• DT (Design and Technology): Textiles and fastenings
  
  

History

• Anglo Saxons and Vikings

Geography

• Where does our food come from

PE

• Swimming
• Gymnastics

RE

• Why are religious texts sacred?

PHSE

• Looking after our money
• Citizenship