Year 4

Year 4 News

Summer 2

As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-raḥmatu -llāhi wa-barakātuh.

Inshallah you all had a fantastic Eid break. Please read below for information concerning Summer 2. If there are any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to come and speak to me.

English

The English curriculum will continue with the development of spoken language, reading and writing skills. Children will develop their reading comprehension skills as well as learn spelling, punctuation and grammar. They will learn new skills and contexts for writing based on core texts. This term we reading The Boy at the back of the Classroom by Onjali Q Rauf in our English lessons. We will also be reading The Girl Who Stole an Elephant by Nizrana Farook for guided reading.

Reading (minimum of 10 minutes a day) – Shared reading and reading aloud helps children develop their higher-order comprehension skills. Please remind your child to fill in their reading record and complete their reading journal every week.

Spellings (10 minutes per day) – Please encourage your child to learn the spelling rules and the meanings of words as well as the spellings. Encourage children to use READ, COVER, WRITE, CHECK method.

Maths

The National Curriculum for Maths is being taught using the ‘Singapore Maths’ approach.

This term our focus will be Position and Movement and Roman Numerals. We will also be solving some word problems in these topics as well as recapping some previously taught topics as we approach the end of the year.

Topic

In Geography we will be learning about Field trips and how geographers conduct them. We will look at different types of land use and changes on the land over time.

School uniform & PE kit

Please ensure that all items of clothing are labelled with your child’s name. The PE sessions will take place on Tuesdays. Children must come to school with their PE kit on the days that they have PE.

Science

Our Science topic this term will be Dangers Living Things. We will be looking at how environments can cause a danger for living things and how this has a knock on effect on the ecosystem.

The Multiplication Tables Check (MTC)

This academic year, 2024-2025, we expect and are preparing to have the multiplication skills formally tested in the statutory test.

We encourage children to memorise multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12. This will only aid them in the future.

By regularly practising using online tools, children will develop their knowledge of multiplication tables in order to recall facts with precision and fluency.

Islamic Studies and Arabic

Children will continue to revise surahs from the Holy Qur’an as well as duas. They will continue learning Arabic from our specialist Arabic/Islamic Studies teacher.

Year 4 Homework Guidance

Homework is important because it helps to consolidate classroom teaching. Please establish a homework routine and encourage your child to complete their homework that will be set on the Year 4 Google classroom and IXL.

Computing

In computing this term we will focus on spreadsheets and formulas to preform calculations. We will look at how we can use the data to create graphs.

Ustadh Bas

Ustadh Bas has been working at Iqra for a number of years and is a key member of the Iqra team. He is an enthusiastic, committed and approachable teacher. Ustadh has worked across KS1 and KS2 with and this year he will be teaching Year 4. We are delighted to have him with us.

Ustadha Saheb

Ustadha Saheb is an experienced learning support assistant and has years of experience working with this class. She was with the class last year and will continue the class this year inshallah.

Ustadah Haque

Ust Haque is an experienced TA and she will be working closely with our students this year as well as helping others in the classroom with their maths and foundation subjects.