Year 4 News
Happy Holidays!
20/12/2024 · 1 comment
The Year 4 team would like to wish all our families a fantastic break and, for those who are celebrating, a very merry Christmas. It’s been a fun final week of term, filled with shows and parties and crafting (don’t worry: we did fit in some ‘proper’ lessons too!). Here are a few photos Read More
A Week of Performances
14/12/2024 · No comments yet
This week feels as if it has been absolutely jam-packed! As well as doing our usual learning in lessons, the children have been hard at work practising to be part of the chorus of the Christmas production – a lot to squeeze in to one week! English This week, we have been really focused Read More
This week in Year 4
06/12/2024 · 1 comment
We have had another busy week in Year 4. As well as our usual lessons, we have started some end of term assessments and have also been busy learning the songs for the Christmas show. English In English this week, we have been reading, responding to and learning the poem ‘Granny’s Sugarcake’ by John Read More
Legendary Learning!
29/11/2024 · 1 comment
English In our English lessons this week, we have been hard at work planning and creating our extended writes based on the legends that we have been exploring for the last few weeks. The children were able to draw on a lot of the research that they had done, as well as some of Read More
A snowy week!
22/11/2024 · No comments yet
The snow brought lots of excitement to Year 4 this week! We had a great time playing outside. English In English this week, we have been working on creating and describing characters to feature in our own legends, which we will be starting to write soon. The children have lots of great ideas and Read More
Determined, hard-working Year 4s…
15/11/2024 · 1 comment
English This week in English, we have been continuing our exploration into legends, focusing on the stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood. We are still building towards eventually writing our own legends and a big part of that has been learning to use expanded noun phrases to add detail to our description. We Read More
Area, Legends and North America
08/11/2024 · No comments yet
It’s been a busy first week back in Year 4! Maths In maths we have been learning all about area: what area is; how to find the area by counting squares or multiplying; making shapes; and comparing areas. The children have shown a good understanding and have some homework linked to this. When working Read More
Mission Complete: Autumn One
25/10/2024 · No comments yet
Despite this being the last week of the first half-term, we in Year 4 have not slowed down at all! After finishing our work on perspective and the Firework Maker’s Daughter in our English and Guided Reading lessons, getting to grips with all of the different methods of addition and subtraction in Maths and Read More
Week 7: Perspective, Reading Buddies and a Hoedown!
18/10/2024 · 2 comments
We’ve had another action-packed week in Year 4! English In English this week we have been learning all about perspective, writing from the interesting viewpoint of the Mona Lisa portrait. The children really enjoyed this task and did a super job of thinking like a painting, describing what they could see and hear, and Read More
Skipping Through The Week!
11/10/2024 · 2 comments
Maths In our maths lessons, we have been finishing up our work on place value and beginning to explore the formal methods of addition. We began by getting to grips with the basics of the method without any exchanging, then gradually built up to calculations with more than exchange. The children did really well Read More
