Farsley Farfield Primary School

Year 4 News

Artefacts, explanations and electricity!

12/09/2025 · No comments yet

We have had another busy week in Year 4! R.E In R.E both classes explored some Islamic artefacts, looking closely to try and work out what the artefacts are used for and why they are important to Muslims. English In English, we have been learning all about explanation texts. This week we focused on Read More

Welcome to Year 4!

05/09/2025 · No comments yet

The children in Year 4 have had a fantastic first week and have really impressed their new teachers with their enthusiasm and positive attitudes. Here are some of our highlights from the week: Team building On Tuesday, both classes completed a series of fun team-building activities on the field. Children had to work together Read More

Goodbye Year 4!

18/07/2025 · No comments yet

A short blog today just to say a massive thank you to all the children in Year 4 for a fantastic year. It has been a pleasure looking after you all for the last year (or two!). All the Year 4 staff feel very lucky that we get to work with such amazing children Read More

This Week in Year 4: Bananas, Music and Sports

04/07/2025 · No comments yet

English Year 4 had lots of fun writing thank you letters to the Cloud Tea Monkeys, not on paper, but on bananas! In our thank you letters, we had to practise using the present perfect tense (e.g. ‘the empress has tasted the tea’ or ‘we have paid the doctor’). It was amazing how neatly Read More

Let’s Animate!

27/06/2025 · No comments yet

Computing This week, the children have been hard at work creating their own stop motion projects. After spending some time reviewing their plans to make sure they had everything they needed, the children set up their webcams and were ready to begin. Each group was so focused on taking each individual picture, making sure Read More

Two Sunny Trips to Burnsall!

20/06/2025 · No comments yet

Both Year 4 classes had fantastic trips to Burnsall this week, made even better (if a little sweatier!) by the glorious sunshine. All children completed a 2-mile walk along the River Wharfe to the Hebden Suspension Bridge, which made for a fun and wobbly river crossing! On the walk we made a number of Read More

First Week Back

06/06/2025 · No comments yet

We’ve had a busy start to our final half term in Year 4! English We have started to explore our new class text, Cloud Tea Monkeys, making predictions about what the story will be about and picking out descriptive language to help us make pastel pictures of the setting. 4L had an exciting lesson Read More

Year 4: Worm Hunters

24/05/2025 · No comments yet

Despite coming ever closer to the end of the year, the children of Year 4 have been hard at work and have definitely earned the upcoming break! Maths In maths, we have been finishing our work on decimals by exploring how to round decimals to the nearest whole number. After spending some time revisiting Read More

Invertebrate Investigators!

16/05/2025 · No comments yet

It’s been another great week in Year 4! Science In science this week we learnt about some of the different groups of invertebrates before going on an invertebrate hunt! We used the pooters to carefully collect creatures that we found so that we could study them more closely. We then released the animals back Read More

Adverts, Decimals and Maps!

09/05/2025 · No comments yet

We have had anther busy week in Year 4 and as usual the children have been hard at work developing their learning. Maths In our Maths lessons, we have been exploring the idea of tenths and hundredths as decimals. It took a litle bit of time to get our heads around how we could Read More