This year you can expect your child to focus on their times table facts. Additionally, most schools do an assessment at the end of the year. Find out what else to expect in Year 4.

It isn’t possible to test every Year 4 or Year 8 student (that would take too long and cost too much) so we take a sample. In Australia, this included 13,912 students from 559 Australian schools.

Australian kindergarten students whose classmates start school with core literacy and numeracy skills perform considerably better in maths and science by year 4, new research based on global test ...