Class Teacher = Miss Hodges

Class Assistant = Mrs Hemming

Year 4 Class Information

Summer Term

Spring

Autumn

Autumn 1

  • Focus Sound: /ee/ coded ea, ee, ie, ei, e, e_e
  • Curriculum Words: breathe, increase, believe, reign, recent, extreme, complete
  • Hip Homophones: meat/meet, week/weak, steal/steel, bean/been, piece/peace
  • Powerful Prefixes: re and ad

Autumn 2 - g sound and ai sound

  • Focus Sound: /g/ coded g, gu, gue, gh
  • Curriculum Words: grammar, group, guide, guard
  • Hip Homophones: grown/grown
  • Focus Sound: /ai/ coded a_e, a, ai, ay, ey, eigh, ei
  • Curriculum Words: separate, favourite, famous, occasion, strange, potatoes, weight, eight, eighth, reign, straight
  • Hip Homophones: grate/grate, stake/steak, mane/main, pain/pane, mail/male, sale/sail.

Spring 1

  • Focus Sound: /l/ coded: l, ll
  • Curriculum Words: length, learn, library, believe, island, particular, popular, regular, calendar.
  • Focus Sound: /ar/ coded: ar, a, al
  • Curriculum Words: heart, guard, separate, regular, peculiar, particular, grammar, popular, forward, calendar, February, library, ordinary, various, actual, answer, natural, imagine, material, favourite, famous, occasion, potato, strange.
  • Superb Suffixes: ly

Spring 2

  • Focus Sound: /u/ coded: u, o, ou
  • Curriculum Words: woman, purpose, enough, though, although, thought, through.
  • Superb Suffixes: -ous (including recap of -ed, -er, -ing and -est)

Summer 1

  • Focus Sound: /sh/ coded: sh, ch, si, ci, ssi, ti
  • Curriculum Words: mention, possession, special, position, occasionally, question, occasion
  • Superb Suffixes: -cian 
  • Focus Sound: plurals
  • Curriculum Words: potatoes, believes, islands, woman, minutes
  • Superb Suffixes: -es -s -ves

Summer 2

  • Focus Sound: /k/ coded: c, k, ck, ch, que
  • Curriculum Words: continue, calendar, particular, complete, increase, consider, circle, describe, caught, difficult, peculiar