Year Four
Welcome to Year Four!
Year Four has three classes:
Blackman Class taught by Mrs Shannon Willison
Doherty Class taught by Mrs Libby Forbes - Year Leader
Larwood Class taught by Mr Dave Revers
The three classes are also supported by:
- Mrs Jenny O'Regan - (Higher Level Teaching Assistant)
- Mrs Steph Bosdet (Specialist Music Teacher)
- Mr Jack Elkington & Mr Adam Cooper (Specialist Sports Coaches)
About Year Four:
Within Year Four at Priory Rise School, we love to make our learning fun through our immersive teaching. We are very proud of the exciting and varied curriculum we have to offer and wherever possible, lessons are hands on and practical. We continuously promote a developing growth mindset and our children are always enthused by challenge! Our students experience the best in quality first teaching from all members of staff. Throughout the course of the year, we encourage the children to become the best versions of themselves through actively promoting and modelling our school ethos and values; this also builds the children’s independence and helps prepare them for Upper Key Stage 2. For each of our topics, we include a memorable experience day to make learning inspiring and engaging; for example, in Autumn 2, we will have an exciting Victorian day!
Curriculum Overview
To see what your child will be learning each term, please click on the links below.
Newsletters:
Please find our latest newsletter below:
Routines of Year Four
PE Days
PE and Games in Year Three take place on the following days:
| Blackman | Wednesday | Thursday |
| Doherty | Tuesday | Thursday |
| Larwood | Tuesday | Wednesday |
Please ensure your child comes to school in their full Priory Rise PE kit on these days and ensure all clothing is clearly named.
Library Days
Please send your child’s library book back to school so they can choose another from the range of wonderful stories available in our school Library.
We visit the library on the following days:
| Blackman | Monday |
| Doherty | Alternate Thursdays |
| Larwood | Alternate Thursdays |
Homework
Each week, children are expected to:
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📖 Read regularly at home, at least three times a week.
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✍️ Record their reading in their red homeschool link book, including a short summary of what they have read and an adult’s signature.
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The red homeschool link books should be brought into school every Wednesday to be checked.
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✖️ Practise their Times Tables each week, using games, songs, or online tools such as Times Tables Rock Stars.
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🧩 Complete one additional task each week. This will link to either Maths, English, or an area of the wider curriculum (for example, History, Geography, or Science).
Completing homework regularly helps children to build confidence, independence, and fluency in their learning. We appreciate families supporting their children with these important routines at home.
Reading in Year Four
Guided reading lessons are taught daily. We read a range of quality texts from various genres, text types and authors. We also promote high quality discussion about books using 'Book Talk' stem sentences when discussing texts.
Writing in Year Four
We believe outstanding writing stems from regular reading of fantastic texts. We teach writing through shared and guided work to model quality vocabulary choices and writing techniques. To inspire the children’s writing, we create exciting opportunities that immerse them into their work; each writing unit begins with an experience day to immerse the children into the unit and motivate and inspire them to produce the best writing. We use consistent lesson formats that allow our children to have a clear understanding of what is expected of them and their writing in Year Four. Recently, we have introduced 'lenses' into our lessons, which allow the children to have a visual hook and support that encourages them to use a range of writing techniques independently. Alongside our English lessons, we teach weekly handwriting and spelling, grammar and punctuation sessions.
Writing Expectations in Year Four
Spelling Lists - Years Three & Four
Maths in Year Four
Maths, along with English, is taught daily. Within Maths in Year Four, we look closely at: place value; the columnar method for all addition; subtraction and multiplication; the bus stop method for division; different units of measures; coordinates; fractions; decimals and shapes and their properties. Year Four spend an allocated amount of time to ensure the children have mastered each topic and display a secure and in-depth understanding of the different areas. Fluency in Maths is important and therefore children have additional ’10 minute maths’ sessions throughout the week. This keeps their learning buoyant and helps them gain a clearer concept of number, embedding the knowledge and skills into children's long-term memory.
Below we have included the methods we use within Year Four Maths.
Priory Rise Calculation Policy
Multiplication Tables Check (MTC)
Enrichment in Year Four
During the course of Year Four the children have many exciting opportunities that are not only educational but also inspire and motivate their learning further. Wherever possible, we encourage and invite visitors to come and give talks to the children about their own lives. This gives the children an insight into different experiences and has been a great success. In Geography, for example, children have been inspired to write about deforestation.
Within the Summer term in Year Four we have an exciting opportunity for children to attend a two-night residential stay at the Frontier Centre in Irthlingborough. Here, the children are given the chance to take part in adventurous activities such as abseiling, high ropes and canoeing as well as learning some key skills and independence by being away from home.
Please click on the link below to view the enrichment opportunities on offer for children this year.
How to help your child in Year Four
Regular reading at home - (both to them and with them) - this is crucial to their progress.
Encouraging your child to complete their homework - this complements our school curriculum and supports their understanding.
Please click on the link below for more ideas on how to support your child at home.
Tips and ideas to support your child in Year Four
Contact Us
If you have any queries or questions, please contact the Year Four teaching team at: