Year Four Curriculum Newsletter Autumn 2026
Joy Excellence Service "Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.“
Psalm 126:5-6
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Throughout this year, children will learn more
about people whose lives have been transformed by faith. study
In the first half term, children will
Abraham
and
consider
how
he
changed
through acting on his faith and entered into a
covenantal relationship with God.
Children will
learn about how Christianity, Judaism and Islam all trace their belief in one God back to Abraham. After half term, children will learn more about
prophets, Baptist.
focussing
on
Elijah
and
John
the
They will make links with the words of
Isiah and the actions and beliefs shown during the season of Advent.
RSHE In Year Four, we will hear and experience the Gospel story of Jesus healing Jairus’
daughter. Through this story, the children will learn that they are created by God out
of
love
and
for
love:
they
were
designed for this purpose. We will start to explore how this knowledge should inform how they live their lives and decisions they
will
make.
Children
will
recognise
how human life is precious and begin to think
about
what
they
respect for each other.
can
do
to
show
ENGLISH Children will enjoy a variety of texts and authors within
our
range
of
learning
English
genres and
lessons.
linked applying
to a
We
will
our
key
range
write
using
texts of
a
whilst
spelling,
punctuation and grammatical skills. Using our first class text, The Wild Robot, we will continue to develop planning and editing skills. Children will focus on descriptive writing and creating explanation texts.
Continuing with this text, we will look at poetry and narrative writing. In addition, children will read a range of extracts linked to our class topics. They will analyse the texts using and continue to develop the skills needed to answer word meaning, retrieval and inference questions.
MATHS During
the
Autumn
term,
Year
Four
will
be
exploring
place value, where they will be comparing, ordering and rounding numbers. They will also look at counting back from
zero
using
negative
Roman Numerals to 100.
numbers
and
representing
They will also be developing
their skills in addition and subtraction, exploring the area
of
different
shapes
and
focusing
on
multiplication and division. They will be developing their fluency, reasoning and problem solving skills by making links to real life situations.
Learning times
tables and related division facts will be a huge focus this year, and starting early in the Autumn term will support
children’s
curriculum.
understanding
across
the
maths
SCIENCE Year Four's first science topic will be states of matter. During this topic, they will learn that everything is made from particles and investigate how materials can
be
Children
divided will
into
look
at
solids, how
and
liquids why
and
gases.
materials
can
change when heated or cooled. They will also explore the four main stages of the water cycle.
After half
term, children learning about electricity.
They will
learn to recognise electrical appliances in the home and at school and will find out how a simple circuit works. design
Children will discover how a switch works and their
own.
They
will
also
discover
materials conduct and insulate electricity.
what
GEOGRAPHY Through
learning
about
Brazil
and
its
rainforests, Year Four will develop their map reading
skills,
use
compasses
and
grid
references to describe locations and make comparisons between Brazil and the UK. They will
learn
about
the
structure
of
a
rain
forest and its environmental importance. We will then explore extreme climates including deserts and polar deserts. The children will refine
their
map
drawing
skills
and
will
explore the physical features of these areas and how they effect human life.
ART/DT We
will
shape,
be
learning
pattern
about
and
sculpture
colour.
The
this
term,
children
will
explore the effects that can be created with colour, light and repetition and they will learn to make a structure
for
an
installation.
The
children
look closely at the work of Yayoi Kusama.
will
Taking
inspiration from her work, children will have the opportunity
to
explore
different
styles
and
techniques whilst creating their own work.
In Design and Technology, children will be building on their understanding of coding to programme a sequence of lights that can be used in their own Christmas decorations.
MUSIC In the first half term, the children will be learning about the different musical structures that help form a piece of music or a song.
They will look for
patterns and repetition in the sections of music they experience.
They will also explore how music
brings people together.
In the second half term,
the children will explore how music makes them feel when they play and how music can highlight words
that
communicate half
term
people
are
specific
will
with
sung
moods.
explore
the
or
past,
how
how
music
Children music
can
considering
in
can their
connect
their
communities and relationships with others.
own
MFL This year, the children will continue learning Spanish
during
their
language
lessons.
In
the Autumn term, the children will revise how to greet and say goodbye to each other, as well as counting and recognising numbers. Through the use of songs, games, spoken and written work, the children will learn how to construct spoken sentences with more than
one noun and will start to construct simple written
sentences.
They
will
learn
the
different colours in Spanish and begin to use these as adjectives within their sentences.
P.E. In
the
Autumn
focusing
on
term,
the
children
coordination
and
will
be
static
balances in their gymnastics sessions. The children will be encouraged the challenge themselves to improve their performance and
begin to recognise their strengths and areas for
improvement.
The
children
will
develop
these skills through a range of activities focusing on foot work. During their outdoor PE
lessons this term, children will be taking part
in
cricket,
Outdoor
Adventurous
Activities (OAA) including orienteering and outdoor athletics.
COMPUTING During this term, the children will learn about storyboards are using in film making.
They will
break down the script of a film into main scenes and will take still images of the scenes.
They
will use these to create their own storyboard, presenting these as stories to tell others.
After
half term, the class will learn about functions in coding, reusable blocks of code that perform tasks.
They learn about the benefits of these in
creating infinite and count-controlled loops and will create and modify loops of their own in code.