Year 4 11+ activities
Year 4 is where reasoning question types start to appear. Aim for familiarity rather than speed — your child should recognise a code, a sequence or an odd-one-out question and know how to begin.
Activities matched to Year 4
Place Value and Rounding
Read, compare and round numbers up to 100,000 — the place-value fluency that every 11+ maths paper assumes.
Mental Maths Speed Round
Times tables, division facts, quarters and decimal addition — a five-minute warm-up to build the speed 11+ papers reward.
Spelling: The Common Traps
The mangled spellings that cost 11+ marks — accommodate, definitely, separate and necessary — with memory tricks for each.
Word Classes and Grammar
Spot the adverb, conjunction, preposition and possessive pronoun inside real sentences — a fast, high-frequency 11+ question type.
Odd One Out: Words
Find the word that does not belong — and then prove it by naming the rule the other three share.
Shape Sequences
Continue a pattern of shapes, shades and turns — the gentlest introduction to non-verbal reasoning.
Odd One Out: Shapes
Three of the shapes share a property — same shape, same number of sides — and one does not.