Year 3 favourite
& 4 Spelling
accident(ally)
popularList
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
build
busy-business
calendar
caught
centre
century
certain
circle
complete
consider
continue
decide
describe
different
difficult
disappear
early
earth
eight/eighth
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
famous
February
forward(s)
fruit
grammar
group
guard
guide
heard
heart
height
history
imagine
increase
important
interest
island
knowledge
learn
length
library
material
medicine
mention
minute
natural
naughty
notice
occasion(ally)
often
opposite
ordinary
particular
peculiar
perhaps
position
possess(ion)
possible
potatoes
pressure
probably
promise
purpose
quarter
question
recent
regular
reign
remember
sentence
separate
special
straight
strange
strength
suppose
surprise
therefore/though
although
thought
through
various
weight
woman/women
The Pines
School
End of Year Expectations
for Year 4
This booklet provides information for parents and
carers on the end of year expectations for
children in our school. The National Curriculum
outlines these expectations as being the
minimum requirements your child must meet in
order to ensure continued progress.
All the objectives will be worked on throughout
the year and will be the focus of direct teaching.
Any extra support you can provide in helping your
children to achieve these is greatly valued.
If you have any queries regarding the content of
this booklet or want support in knowing how best
to help your child, please talk to your childs
teacher.
Reading
Spelling
Give a personal point of view on a text
Re-explain a text with confidence
Justify inferences with evidence, predicting
what might happen from details stated or
implied
Use appropriate voices for characters within
a story
Recognise apostrophe of possession (plural)
Identify how sentence type can be changed
by altering word order, tenses,
adding/deleting words or amending
punctuation
Explain why a writer has used different
sentence types or a particular word order and
the effect it has created
Skim & scan to locate information and/or
answer a question
Develop a range of personal strategies for
learning new and irregular words
Develop a range of personal strategies for
spelling at the point of composition
Develop a range of strategies for checking
and proof reading spellings after writing
Use further prefixes and suffixes and
understand how to add them
Spell further homophones
Spell words that are often misspelt
Place the possessive apostrophe accurately in
words with regular plurals [for example, girls,
boys] and in words with irregular plurals [for
example, childrens]
Use the first two or three letters of a word to
check its spelling in a dictionary
Write from memory simple sentences,
dictated by the teacher, that include words
and punctuation taught so far proof-read for
spelling error
Speaking & Listening
Writing
The Spoken Language objectives are set out for
the whole of primary school, and teachers will
cover many of them every year as childrens
spoken language skills develop.
Vary sentence structure, using different
openers.
Use adjectival phrases (e.g. biting cold wind).
Use appropriate choice of noun or pronoun.
Use fronted adverbials.
Use apostrophe for plural possession.
Use a comma after fronted adverbial (e.g.
Later that day, I heard bad news.).
Use commas to mark clauses.
Use inverted commas and other punctuation
to punctuate direct speech.
Use paragraphs to organise ideas around a
theme.
Use connecting adverbs to link paragraphs.
Write with increasing legibility, consistency
and fluency
In Years 3 and 4, some focuses may include:
Use discussion and conversation to explore
and speculate about new ideas
Begin to recognise the need to use Standard
English in some contexts
Participation in performances, plays and
debates
Explain thinking and feeling in well-structured
statements and responses
Science
Living Things and their habitats
Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of
ways
Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and
name a variety of living things in their local and wider
environment
Recognise that environments can change and that this can
sometimes pose dangers to living things.
Animals, including Humans
Describe the functions of the basic parts of the human
digestive system
Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple
functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains,
identifying producers, predators and prey.
States of Matter
Compare and group materials together, according to whether
they are solids, liquids or gases
Observe that some materials change state when they are
heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at
which this happens in degrees Celsius (C)
Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the
water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with
temperature.
Sound
Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with
something vibrating
Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium
to the ear
Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the
object that produced it
Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength
of the vibrations that produced it
Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the
sound source increases.
Electricity
Identify common appliances that run on electricity
Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and
naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches
and buzzers
Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series
circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete
loop with a battery
Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and
associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple
series circuit
Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and
associate metals with being good conductors.
Mathematics
Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.
Compare and order numbers beyond 1,000.
Compare and order numbers with up to 2 decimal places.
Read Roman numerals to 100.
Find 1,000 more/less than a given number.
Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000.
Recall and use multiplication and division facts all tables to
12x12.
Recognise PV of any 4-digit number.
Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.
Round decimals with 1dp to nearest whole number.
Add and subtract: o Numbers with up to 4-digits using written
columnar method.
Multiply:
o 2-digit by 1-digit
o 3-digit by 1-digit
Count up/down in hundredths.
Recognise and write equivalent fractions
Add and subtract fractions with same denominator.
Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12
and 24 hour clocks.
