Welcome to Year 4
Grasshopper and Moth classes are our Year 4 classes here at the Isle of Ely Primary School. From this page, you will be able to read all about our engaging curriculum for the half term and see all of our fantastic learning activities.
PE days are Tuesday(Cricket) and Thursday (Fitness).
Library - Wednesday
Who works in Year 4?
Grasshoppers
Mrs Beth Wilshin Miss Isobel Fish
Moths
Mrs Pelin Silveira Mrs Amy Wreathall
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Our Curriculum – Summer 1:
This half term we will be learning:
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English |
We will be learning the portal story ‘The Time Slip Scarab’ by story mapping the text and retelling this with actions. Our focus will be on creating suspense within stories and we will be learning the tools needed to do this. We will be learning how to use similes and personification in our writing, as well as power of threes and -ing clauses. We will also be showing how a character is feeling through their actions and improving our descriptions with expanded noun phrases.
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Maths |
In maths this half term, we will be learning about decimals. We will be exploring tenths and hundredths and we will learn how to dividing by 10 and 100. We will explore how we can write, compare, order and round decimals and use this knowledge to be able to solve problems. We will also be exploring money. We will recap our knowledge of pound and pence before moving onto thinking about ordering and rounding money.
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Science |
In science this half term, we will be learning about the different states of matters and the water cycle. The children will be able to share the differences between the three different states and provide examples. In regards to the water cycle, we will explore what evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection are.
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History |
In history we are going to be exploring The Stuarts for the whole of the summer term. Next half term we are going to start by looking at James I and what The Union of Crowns are. Then we will explore the gunpowder plot, who Charles I was, what the causes of the English Civil War was and how Oliver Cromwell played his role within the Commonwealth.
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Geography |
Our focus this half term is Mediterranean Europe. We will be looking at the different countries and identifying their capital cities, their languages and their flags. During this unit we will also use our prior knowledge to explore the different ecosystems within these countries.
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PE |
This half term we will be participating in a fitness unit and will be learning the skills behind cricket. The children will have the opportunity to put their skills into practice in a game situation by the end of the half term.
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R.E |
In RE we are going to be looking at spiritual journeys. We will start by exploring what a spiritual journey is. From this we will then look at all religions and explore in depth of what their spiritual journeys are and how they are different within each religion.
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Spanish |
In Spanish, children will take part in a role-play dialogue about being at the doctors; understand and name jungle animals in Spanish; understand adjectives to describe jungle animals in a story; write a sentence using a noun, a verb and adjectives to describe animals and write a jungle explorer’s story.
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PSHE |
This half term we are going to be exploring ‘Healthy Me’. Within this unit, we are going to look at healthy relationships, group dynamics and celebrating our inner strengths and assertiveness. We will also be learning about the effects of smoking and alcohol.
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Art |
In art, we will be learning about the Byzantine Empire and the art that was created during this time. We will be focusing particularly on the rich culture of the Byzantine Empire and the luxurious patterns and mosaics they created. We will finish the topic by creating our own piece of Byzantine art. |
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Music |
This half term the children will be looking at Stories in Sound, listening to music that represents a narrative. They will listen to Respighi’s tone poem “The Pines of the Appian Way”. The children will compare Respighi’s piece with Marches written by composers John Williams and Gustav Holst. The children will use their growing musical knowledge and techniques to compose a march played on tuned and un-tuned percussion instruments. |
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Computing |
Our unit in computing this half term is creating media. The children will develop their understanding of how digital images can be changed and edited, and how they can then be resaved and reused. They will consider the impact that editing images can have, and evaluate the effectiveness of their choices. |
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Knowledge Organisers
At the Isle of Ely Primary School, we use knowledge organisers as a tool to help our children learn more and remember more and to allow parents and carers to support their children's learning. In our knowledge organisers, you will find essential knowledge, key dates, important vocabulary and key figures. The knowledge organisers can also be used as a fun assessment tool which will help children to see the progress they have made.
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Spanish |
Year 4's Spine Story: The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
Weekly Newsflash
W/C 19th May 2025
We have had a fantastic Art’s Week, which has been themed around our school value of being reflective. The children have enjoyed a range of workshops including African drumming, singing a verse from The Eye of the Tiger to perform as a school, creating rainbow xylophones for the forest school area and using drama to explore how we can show gratitude. They have showed great resilience when learning new skills such as French knitting and origami. We met the illustrator Melissa Castrillon who read the book Love is my Favourite Colour and shared her experiences of reflecting on her illustrations.
W/C 12th May 2025
In English, the children have written their own portal stories. They have all worked incredibly hard to include the tools for suspense, as well as developing their descriptions. We have been learning about money in maths: converting between pounds and pence, comparing amounts and estimating totals. Our science lessons have been about the water cycle this half term. The children have learnt about the processes evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
W/C 5th May 2025
This week, we have been writing our portal stories about Lila, the firework maker’s daughter. The children have all been able to use the suspense tools we’ve been learning and our model text to write fantastic portal stories. In maths, we have been rounding decimals to the nearest whole and learning the decimals equivalents to halves and quarters. In geography, we have been learning about the continent of Asia. This week, we focussed on Western Asia and its desert climate. The children have used atlases to locate the countries, seas and deserts.
W/C 28th April 2025
In maths, we have been partitioning and comparing decimals using our knowledge of tenths and hundredths. We have been learning about personification, similes and the power of three in English to help us with writing for suspense. In art, the children have been learning about Byzantine monuments and the mosaics used within them. We looked at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and the children completed their own sketches inspired by these. They enjoyed doing this in the outdoor classroom.
W/C 21st April 2025
This week, we have started learning our model text ‘The Time Slip Scarab’ by retelling it with actions. The children have been learning about similes and personification as tools to support our descriptive writing and build suspense. In maths, we have continued our work on decimals: dividing by 10 and 100 and using our understanding to answer reasoning questions. We started our history unit about the Stuarts by learning about the Union of the Crowns where James VI of Scotland also became King James I of England. In science, we have explored the states of matter and investigated how long it takes an ice cube to melt at room temperature.