Year 4 - John Clifford School

Welcome to Year 4

Miss Padhiar - Clover Class
Mrs Colt - Heather Class
Miss Helme - Year 4 Teaching Assistant

Summer 2 - 2025

Welcome back to a jam-packed final half term before summer, we hope that you have enjoyed the short break. We have all sorts of exciting activities planned in Summer 2 - including the greatly anticipated residential to Hathersage! Our new topic focuses on The Americas, in which we will be turning into geographers and looking at North and South America. This half term, our topic question is:

"Can we go on a great American roadtrip?"

The Americas

We will be using our geography skills to understand and describe key aspects of physical and human geography relating to North and South America, including types of human settlements in the USA and how these are similar/different to those in the UK. We will also look at how climatic conditions are different across the country and associate weather/climate with landscape and environment.

In English, we will be learning about how to write a news report, considering the presentation, structure and features of a news report. Children will have the opportunity to present their reports, as real reporters. We will then use a poem - The Cave of Curiosity by Pie Corbett, to inspire our repetitive pattern poetry writing.

In Maths we will continue to focus on geometry before moving on to time and statistics. We will then learn about direction and position within geometry, before consolidating learning from throughout the year. We will continue to work on consolidating our knowledge of times tables in preparation for the national multiplication check this month.

Our Science work this half term will focus on the topic of Animals, Including Humans. We will be learning about how to keep our teeth healthy, how our digestive system works and how these are linked to the roles of animals in food chains.

Our class text this half term is:

‘Kidnap on the California Comet' by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman.

California Comet

In this final half term, we will be learning about:

Maths - Geomtry, Time and Satistics, with continued multiplication practice.
Science - Animals, Including Humans
Computing - Coding
Geography - The Americas
DT - Food and Nutrition: Overnight Oats
Spanish  - Shopping
PSHE  - Health and Wellbeing, including SRE
PE - Rounders and Athletics
RE - Belonging and Identity
Music - Favourite Song - learning, practicing and performing.

Key Dates

Please note the following dates for your diary:

Monday 2nd June: Return to School

Monday 2nd June - Friday 13th June: Official Year 4 Multiplication Check

Monday 2nd June - Friday 13th June: Fieldwork Fortnight

Wednesday 5th June: Class Photos

Wednesday 11th June - Friday 13th June: Hathersage Residential

Tuesday 17th June 9.15am: LKS2 Sports Day

Friday 4th July: INSET Day

Wednesday 9th - Friday 11th July: Transition Days

Friday 25th July - Last day of term

Knowledge Organisers

Below you can find our knowledge organisers for our subjects this half term. These can be used to quiz at home about topics or to revise key concepts.

PE & Outdoor Learning

In the Summer term, PE takes place on TUESDAYS (alternate weeks) and WEDNESDAYS (every week). Outdoor Learning takes place on TUESDAYS (alternate weeks). See below for details.

PE kits consist of PLAIN black shorts or jogging bottoms, PLAIN white t-shirt, and trainers. Please pack an extra warm top for outdoor PE lessons.

W/C:	2.6.25	9.6.25	16.6.25	23.6.25	30.6.25	7.7.25	14.7.25	21.7.25
Clover	Tues - OL	Tues - PE	Tues - OL	Tues - PE	Tues - OL	Tues - PE	Tues - OL	Tues - PE
	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE
Heather	Tues - PE	Tues - OL	Tues - PE	Tues - OL	Tues - PE	Tues - OL	Tues - PE	Tues - OL
	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE	Weds - PE

Outdoor Learning is on alternate Tuesdays.

Outdoor Learning kits consist of:

Warm clothing
Black jogging bottoms or leggings
John Clifford jumper, cardigan or warm plain jumper
Waterproof coat, trousers or all in one
Extra layers
Warm socks
Hat, scarf, gloves
Wellies or old trainers (brought to school in a named bag)

Please ensure that all kit is clearly named and in a bag which can be hung on your child’s peg on the day. Please could we ask that outdoor learning kits are not left in school.

In Outdoor Learning, children have the opportunity to build dens, explore the mud kitchen, look after our animals and get messy! Please send in clothes that you do not mind getting messy or wet.

Homework in Year 4

Homework Books:

Continuing from last term, each week we will ask the children to complete one section from each homework book (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling homework book and Maths homework book) as practise for the work we are doing in class. Homework is due in on Wednesdays for marking and new homework will be assigned on Fridays, due back the following Wednesday. We would ask for your support with this. Please do get in touch if you have any questions.

Reading:

Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week. This could be with any adult or an older sibling or friend. Please sign their diary and add a comment. Children should bring in their diaries every day. Every bit of reading and being able to talk about what is being read really does help children with their learning and enjoyment.

Spelling:

We also ask that children practise their weekly spellings which can be found inside the Communication Diary. We conduct a spelling quiz each week as part of a dictation lesson and children are encouraged to use the words in their writing each week.

Times Tables:

A vital aspect of Maths is that the children have a secure recall of times tables up to 12x12, so we ask that they spend some time each week on TT Rockstars practising these. Log in details can be found in your child's Communication Diary.

PLEASE note: the Year 4 Multiplication Check takes place this Term.