Key Stage 2 · Year 4 · ages 8 or 9
Year 4: topics explained for parents
By the end of Year 4 children are expected to know their times tables up to 12 × 12, and they are checked on them in June. The Multiplication Tables Check has 25 questions, six seconds each, and no pass mark. Maths also brings four-digit numbers, hundredths and decimals, English introduces fronted adverbials, and science covers digestion, sound, simple circuits and states of matter.
English
- Drafting sentences, paragraphs and stories
- Editing, proofreading and reading aloud
- Planning by learning from model texts
- Joined handwriting and legibility
- Performing poems and plays
- Inference, questioning and prediction
- Main ideas and non-fiction
- Reading widely, myths and legends
- Plural apostrophes, dictionaries and dictation
- Prefixes, y and ou spellings
- Endings -tion, -sion, -cian, -ous, -sure
- Greek, French and Latin spellings; ei, eigh, ey
- Plural apostrophes and homophones
- Spelling words: accident to difficult
- Spelling words: disappear to important
- Spelling words: interest to potatoes
- Spelling words: pressure to woman
- Suffixes, –ation and –ly
- Prefixes, suffixes and homophones
- Explaining and justifying ideas
- Presenting, performing and debating
- Listening, questioning and group talk
- Direct speech, commas and apostrophes
- Conjunctions, present perfect, fronted adverbials
- Reading new words from their parts
- Fronted adverbials and noun phrases
- Paragraphs, pronouns and direct speech
- Apostrophes and Standard English verbs
Maths
Science
Subjects taught across Key Stage 2
These subjects are planned across the whole key stage, so schools choose when in it each topic comes.