Mary Exton Primary School

Welcome to Year 4

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Mrs Hubbard

Welcome to Year 4 at Mary Exton Primary School.   Mrs Hubbard and Mr Andrews are our class teachers.  They are supported by our teaching assistants Miss Fountain and Mrs Bridgeman.

We cover so much in just one year so please see our termly curriculum maps for more detail but here is a summary of some of our favourite parts of Year 4.

In our other curriculum subjects, we enjoy developing our communication and team skills such as through handball and gymnastics in PE. We love active learning and our DT unit ‘British Seasonal Food’ allows us to practice our chopping, weighing and kitchen safety skills while working together to prepare crumbles and soups. As we journey through Year 4 our problem solving skills are put to the test in computing coding lessons and scientific enquiry lessons on electricity, sound and the digestive system.

Finally, in Year 4 children are also given the opportunity to begin weekly music lessons in Cello and Flute which our children love showing off their learning in our sharing assemblies.

Meet the Teacher

English in Year 4

In Year 4 English, we particularly enjoy writing spooky story settings and performance poetry where the children can regularly share their writing and give each feedback. We also work hard to earn our pen licenses!

Year 4 Recommended Reading List

Please find a recommended reading list from 'The School Reading List' here.  It includes some brilliant books which are age appropriate and there will be something for everyone on the list. It is important that the children read a range of genre and authors to support them with their writing for style and engagement.  However, ultimately, we want our children to have a love of reading.

Maths in Year 4

In Maths, a large focus in placed on becoming fluent in times tables up to 12x12 to enable us to be well prepared for the Year 4 National Multiplication Tables Check which takes place in June.

Multiplication Test Check

Year 4 Maths Knowledge Organiser

Trips: North Hertfordshire Museum

In the Autumn Term, Year 4 enjoy a trip to North Hertfordshire Musuem to do some hands-on learning about the Anglo Saxons. Last year, we enjoyed dressing up some of our classmates in traditional clothing and learning more about Anglo Saxon life by getting to try grinding for bread. Cas, our museum tour guide, then told us an ancient Anglo Saxon story.

We then have the opportunity to look around the museum and learn about Early Medieval Hitchin and the discovery of Christian Anglo- Saxons buried near Queen Street between the seventh and tenth centuries. Did you know the new Development on this site was named Saxon Court?

We also use this trip as an opportunity to raise money for Charity by walking the 1.5 miles to the museum and back again as a sponsored walk! Last year we raised over £100 for Angels, Autism and ADHD support group!

Trips: Knebworth House

In the Spring Term, Year 4 head to Knebworth House and gardens on an ‘Inspiring Young Writers. visit. This is a literacy themed day which offers the chance for pupils to gather ideas for story writing through exploring, active learning and imagination. The guides use the house and its objects as ‘hooks’ from which to hang stories in order to fire the imagination of our Year 4s. The children then complete their own piece of descriptive writing back at school which is based on one of the most well-known story openers in history ‘It was a dark and stormy night…’, . A story which was created by the Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton, who lived at Knebworth House.

Curriculum Letters and Maps

Please see below for the documents sent out to parents at the beginning of each term.  They outline the term ahead and how parents can support at home.

Autumn Term Curriculum Letter

Autumn Term Curriculum Overview

Spring Term Curriculum Letter

Spring Term Curriculum Map

Summer Term Curriculum Letter

Summer Term Curriculum Map

Knowledge Organisers

Year 4 Autumn 1

Year 4 Autumn 2