Year 4 Porpoises and Dolphins
Porpoises and Dolphins
Welcome to the Year 4 page!
Here, you can find out all the latest information and some home learning tasks.
Parent/ carers: If you have any questions, queries or comments about Year 4, please catch us on the playground, or email the school office at: admin@southmead.devon.sch.uk and we will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible, within normal working hours.
What we get up to in Year 4!
Click here to check out our Curriculum Overview
Welcome to Year 4!
We hold annual meetings to welcome to families, or for returning families to catch up with staff and see what the year will bring.
Click Here for the Year 4 Welcome Meeting 2025-2026
Residential
If you missed the residential meeting on the 19th March, here are the slides with all the important information that you need!
Y4 Residential PGL March meeting 2025
Home Learning
This year, we will asking students to read their books, log into MyMaths and log into Times Table Rockstars weekly.
Passwords for MyMaths and Times Table Rockstars can be found in the back of a student's Reading Record.
We will also send some vocabulary home each half-term of words that will be used in class, so that they can be discussed at home to make sure that our students feel confident in using the language at school. These will always be found here on this page.
Click Here for Words to Learn for Autumn 1
Times Tables
Here, in Year 4, we LOVE times tables! We spend a lot of time getting to grips with these number facts and celebrate the learning our students undertake.
We are using Number Sense Maths' Times Table Fluency Programme daily. This breaks down the learning into 36 facts to have learnt by the end of the year. Each times table has a dedicated session, where we look at the structure of the multiplication facts in depth, before daily practise sessions commence.
In addition to this, we spend time practising our times tables through our Maths lessons, playing plenty of games and using resources such as the Rekenreks and Times Table Rockstars!
Later in the year, we take part in the Multiplication Tables Check - which after all of their hard work, often has our students coming out with a big smile on their faces! We hold annual meetings on this to update parents, plus we always add the slides onto this page afterwards.
Our meeting for 2025-2026 is yet to come, watch this space!
Looking for some fun activities to boost your skills in Times Tables? CLICK HERE!
Times Tables Parent Meetings 2024- 2025
Check out what we've been up to this year!
Author Visit - 22/09/25
We were very lucky to receive a visit from Joseph Witchall today. He explained to us how he seeks his inspiration through art and then he created characters with us, which we have been challenged to use in writing stories. We loved hearing all about his creative process and about how he perseveres during the drafting portion of his writing. Thank you very much Appledore Reading Festival and Mrs Cooper for organising this for us and a big thank you to Joseph Witchall for coming to speak to us.
Year 4 Author Visit 2025-2026
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Home learning in case you need to isolate at home
Please find 1 day's worth of home learning if you are well enough.
English - tricky homophones
There, their and they're homophones PowerPoint
There, their and they're worksheet and answers
There, their and they're homophone cards
Reading Comprehension - Summer Term
Maths - Times tables revision
Ultimate Times Table Practise (6 x table)
Ultimate Times Table Practise (7 x table)
The English Civil War Timeline
SPELLING AT HOME
Spelling practise at home can often be challenging. Why not try using a multi-sensory approach! Try making the spellings using play dough, using coloured pens, using toys to make the shape of the letters or even during baking with flour! Rap, sing or link spellings to stories and shapes.
Supporting spelling practice
READING AT HOME
Our whole expectation is that children will read at home at least 3 times per week, this can be to an adult or independently. Below are some ideas to help support you at home with reading and questioning your child.
