Important update from TheSchoolRun
For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.
What this means for subscribers:
- Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
- In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
- As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.
A few changes to be aware of:
- The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
- The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.
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What your child learns in Year 4 maths, English and science
As the homework assignments your child brings home get more and more complicated, it can be difficult to know what sort of help they’ll need each week. Understanding the basic areas they’re likely to cover in Year 4 can prepare you for the questions your child might ask, so you’re ready with the right worksheets and activities!
Download TheSchoolRun's Year 4 Taster Pack for free for an overview of what your child will learn and some English, maths and science activities to try at home with them.
Year 4 maths
In Year 4, your child will be learning to add and subtract numbers with up to four digits using column addition and subtraction. They will continue to learn their times tables, so that by the end of the year they are confident in all of them up to the 12 times table. This will then help them in moving onto multiplying three-digit numbers by a one-digit number.
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Year 4 children will solve problems involving fractions and be introduced to decimals. They will need to find the perimeter and area of shapes, convert between units of measurement and convert between the 12-hour and 24-hour clock. Children will do further work on angles and co-ordinates. They will also need to interpret and present data in bar charts and line graphs.
With all of the areas of maths covered in Year 4, it’s good to check that your child understands everything they’re being taught. Look through our detailed Year 4 maths introduction guide and browse through our free Year 4 maths worksheets to help them focus on any problem areas.
Year 4 English
Children will be increasing their familiarity with a wide range of genres of writing. They will be preparing poems and play scripts to read aloud and perform. They will be thinking about inference and making predictions about what is going to happen in a story.
When it comes to writing, they should become much more confident this year with joining their handwriting and keeping it as neat and legible as possible. They will be thinking carefully about the setting, characters and plot in their stories and how to structure a text, including use of paragraphs. They will be using apostrophes to mark plural possession. They should also become more confident in including dialogue in their stories, including the correct use of speech marks.
Read about the Year 4 English curriculum in our guide for parents.
Have your child practice writing for purpose, sentence structure and reading comprehension with our range of free Year 4 English worksheets.
Year 4 science
This year children will be learning about:
Living things and their habitats, including classifying living things and looking at changes to environments.
Animals including humans, focusing on eating: teeth, the digestive system and food chains.
States of matter, including grouping materials, changing state, evaporation and condensation.
Sound, looking at creation of sound through vibration and changes in pitch and volume.
Electricity, including constructing a circuit and understanding conductors and insulators.
With a number of terms to memorise and more processes to get to grips with, it helps to practise everything at home so your child is fully prepared for their science classes. Download and print off our free Year 4 science worksheets so your child can check how well they understand electricity, the parts of a plant and properties of materials and read a detailed guide to the Year 4 science curriculum.
It’s not time for Key Stage 2 SATs yet, but it never hurts to be prepared! Have a look at what your child will learn in Year 5 and Year 6 so you’ll be ready for the sorts of assignments they’ll bring home. Remind yourselves of what’s already been taught in Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 with our handy guides.
