Year 4 News
Year 4 News 13.3.26
13/03/2026 · No comments yet
Musical Instruments Year 4 turned their classrooms into workshops this Thursday! Using saws, drills, and hammers, the children applied their science knowledge to build an amazing array of instruments, including xylophones, trombones, rainsticks, pan pipes, chimes and drums. As well as their safe and accurate use of the tools, we were particularly impressed by Read More
Year 4 News 6.3.26
06/03/2026 · No comments yet
World Book Day! We had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day on Thursday. It was wonderful to see the children dressed up in outfits to represent their hobbies, interests and favourite books. The book swap was a particular highlight of the day. Children were excited to choose a new book and spoke enthusiastically Read More
Perimeter, Diaries and Saxons, Oh My!
27/02/2026 · No comments yet
In our English and Guided Reading sessions, we have been reading a brand new text called ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. Over the next few weeks, both classes are going to be exploring the story in more detail and using it to create some diary entries for the characters, beginning with Read More
Year 4 News 12.2.26
12/02/2026 · 2 comments
Mamma Mia! This half term in music, Year 4 have been learning the song Mamma Mia by Abba. We hope you enjoy our final performances. How to Train Your Dragon We have been so impressed with how hard Year 4 have been working when writing their own stories over the last couple of weeks. Read More
‘How to Write your Story’
06/02/2026 · No comments yet
This week in English, we have been focusing on writing our own stories set in the world of ‘How to Train your Dragon’. The children first spent some time thinking carefully about what they would include in each section of their story, and how they would incorporate the characters that they had designed to Read More
Year 4 News 23.1.26
23/01/2026 · No comments yet
Here are some of the things we have been up to this week! Science In science, we have been carrying out a range of investigations to find out how sound travels through different materials. History Last week in history we used timelines to explore the Anglo-Saxon period. First, we sequenced some events into chronological Read More
A Week Full of Science!
16/01/2026 · No comments yet
This week has been a very Science centric week. On Monday, we had the pleasure of joining a workshop led by “Sam the Sound Man”. We began with all of the children in 4NL, where he took us on a journey through sound, focusing primarily on how sounds are made and how they travel Read More
Year 4 News – 9.1.26
09/01/2026 · No comments yet
Welcome back to a new term in Year 4! English The children have really enjoyed starting our new class text, How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell. This week, we designed our own islands, inspired by the setting of the story, the Isle of Berk. We made maps of our islands and wrote Read More
Poetry and Dance
12/12/2025 · 1 comment
Poetry Performances This week, Year 3 and 4 came together to share the poems that we have been learning this half term. Both Year 4 classes performed ‘Granny’s Sugarcake’ by John Lyons on the stage in the hall. The children worked really well in their classes, deciding how they wanted to perform the poem, Read More
Cycles of Learning
05/12/2025 · No comments yet
This week, the children in both classes have been focusing on learning a poem for the first poetry slam of Year 4. Our poem is a lovely one by John Lyons titled ‘Granny’s Sugarcake’. We had a lot of fun exploring the meaning and story of the poem – especially as the way that Read More
