Holiday Learning: Year 4 Maths and English Activities

Perfect to help combat summer learning loss, these Activities are great as they cover key areas of the curriculum.

What’s more you could add these Activities into a MyCity. Simply allocate, sequence and assign the content to your students and track their progress along the way – Home Access is brilliant for continued learning outside of school hours.

Let’s take a peek at our favourite Year 4 Activities…

Maths

Number and Place Value

Starship Sten – Find 1000 more or less than a given number.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: First ***
  • Wales: Year 4
  • N. Ireland: P5

Sleepy Crawlies – Fill in the missing number, counting back from any number in steps of 11, 15, 19, 21 and 25s up to 200.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: Second ***
  • Wales: Year 5 & 6
  • N. Ireland: P7

Measurement

Shop with Stig – Solve 1 and 2 step subtraction problems involving money.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: Second *
  • Wales: Year 4
  • N. Ireland: P5

TimeMaths Activity

Watch Man – Read and tell time to one minute on an analogue clock.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: First ***
  • Wales: Year 4
  • N. Ireland: P5

Multiplication

Times Trial – Multiplication with multiples of 10.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: First ***
  • Wales: Year 5 & 6
  • N. Ireland: P6

Water Raider – Recognise multiples of 6, 7, 8 and 9.

  • England: Year 4
  • Scotland: Second **
  • Wales: Year 6
  • N. Ireland: P6

English

Singular and Plural Words

Hunt a Skunk – Group the words correctly using the term’s singular and plural.

  • England: Year 3 & 4
  • Scotland: First ***
  • Wales: Year 3
  • N. Ireland: P4

Prefixes

Wilderness Reserve – Match prefixes to root words and explain their meanings.

  • England: Year 3 & 4
  • Scotland: First ** & First ***
  • Wales: Year 3
  • N. Ireland: P4

ComprehensionEnglish Activity

Dancin’ in the Drizzle – Identify regular beats, alliteration, rhymes and repeated lines in a poem.

  • England: Year 3 & 4
  • Scotland: First ***
  • Wales: Year 4
  • N. Ireland: P5

Twin Tales – Compare and contrast two versions of the Cinderella story from different cultures.

  • England: Year 3 & 4
  • Scotland: First **
  • Wales: Year 3
  • N. Ireland: P4

Spelling

Flight to Freedom – Explore homophones, words with the same pronunciation but with different spellings.

  • England: Year 3 & 4
  • Scotland: Second *
  • Wales: Year 4 & 5
  • N. Ireland: P6

Hu-la-la – Use a dictionary to identify a word from its meaning.

  • England: Year 3 & 4
  • Scotland: First ***
  • Wales: Year 4 
  • N. Ireland: P6

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