Year 4 2025 - 2026
Mrs Dutton 4LD
I have been teaching at Woodlands Primary School since September 2013, and lead our Year 3/4 team. I am passionate about teaching all subjects, but I really enjoy teaching English, exploring different narratives and writing imaginatively and creatively. I lead English across our whole school, and love to plan exciting activities to promote reading at Woodlands. When children reach the top of the reading chart or strive for 5, it makes my heart sing!
When not in school, I can usually be found running around after my three children or my dog, Bertie. I love reading stories with my children or baking yummy treats in the kitchen.
My motto is 'Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars!'
Mrs Barrett 4LB
Hi there, I am Mrs Barrett. This is my sixth year at Woodlands and my third year in Lower Key Stage 2. This is my eleventh year of teaching and prior to working here, I taught in Melbourne, Australia, which I loved, but there really is no place like home!
I enjoy teaching English as I am passionate about creative writing and reading and I love seeing child develop their own styles of writing.
I am the Geography lead for Woodlands. My favourite day of the school year is our Young Voices concert, where we sing in Manchester with over 8000 other children from schools in the North West.
Outside of school, I love floristry, learning new things, fitness and have completed 3 marathons, including London. I am also very busy with my beautiful daughter and two puppies. We love nothing more than exploring the Wirral beaches together.
I am very much looking forward to another year working closely with the team at Woodlands.
Welcome to Y4!
Autumn 1
o begin this half term, we will read, 'Alba the hundred year old fish' by Lara Hawthorne.
At the end of this unit of work, we will write a 'message in a bottle' persuasive letter, in role as Alba, encouraging humans to stop putting plastics in our oceans and seas.
Our Mastery Targets for Autumn 1 are:
- to expand noun phrases by adding modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases
- to organise paragraphs around a theme (using fronted adverbials to introduce or connect paragraphs)
- to use commas after fronted adverbials
- use inverted commas for direct speech
In our shared reading sessions this term, we will explore the text, 'The Sea Book,' written by the Charlotte Milner.
Our Mastery Targets for Autumn 1 are:
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In maths this half term, we will study place value. Our mastery targets for these units are; |
- to represent and partition numbers to 1000
- to represent and partition numbers to 10,000
- to find 1, 10, 100, 1,000 more or less than a given number
- to compare and order numbers to 10,000
- to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
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Times Tables In June, our Year 4 children will take their statutory Multiplication Times Tables Check (MTC). To find out more about this check, please read the guide attached to the website page. In readiness for this, throughout the year we aim to grow our times tables knowledge tp ensure confident and speedy recall of all times tables up to 12 x 12. Please support your child as much as possible practising them regularly. You may wish to use TTrockstars and URBrainy. |
PE Days
For this half term, our PE days will be Mondays (Indoor) and Fridays, as swimming lessons are scheduled for Friday afternoons. Please ensure your child comes to school wearing their PE kit on Mondays and Fridays.
Our PE topic for this half term are Dance and Tag Rugby or Swimming.
