Year 4 News
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
Year 4 News – 28.11.25
28/11/2025 · No comments yet
Trips to the mosque This week Year 4 had two very successful visits to Lincoln Green Mosque. Both classes behaved brilliantly and did a super job of representing Farfield. The volunteers who ran the activities were very impressed with the knowledge of our children and with their thoughtful questions. At the mosque, we completed Read More
Legendary Lessons!
21/11/2025 · No comments yet
This week in English, we have been using our knowledge of legends (particularly King Arthur and Robin Hood), to plan and write our own stories. We started by designing our protagonists and thinking about how we could describe them effectively. Once we had done this, we planned out our stories step-by step, considering what Read More
This Week in Year 4
14/11/2025 · No comments yet
English This half term in English we are exploring legends. We have read the stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood, considering how they are similar and different and working out what the features of legends are. We used a story mountain to think about how stories, including legends, are structured. We then thought Read More
Happy Half Term
25/10/2025 · No comments yet
Well done to everyone in Year 4 for a fantastic first half term! MusicBoth classes have enjoyed learning The Hoedown in music. Here is the final performance from 4SL. Dance4NL have worked brilliantly in their dance unit in P.E this half term. We will be sharing a video of their dances soon. FrenchIn French Read More
Think. Stop. Look. Listen.
17/10/2025 · No comments yet
Science In our Science lessons this week, we have been investigating conductors and insulators. We planned out a fantastic investigation, thinking carefully about which objects we were going to test and the materials that they were made out of. Once we had our list of items, we had to decide how we were going Read More
Skipping, Switches and Super Writing
10/10/2025 · No comments yet
Skipping This week in Year 4 we were visited by Adele from skipping school, who led a very energetic session of skipping for each class. We went through some of the skips that we had learnt previously in Year 2 and tried some tricky new skips including the cross over and the pretzel. We Read More
Electric Editing!
03/10/2025 · No comments yet
English In our English lessons this week, we have primarily been focusing on how to effectively edit our work. We started by looking at different strategies that can be used to identify and correct errors as well as make improvements to what has already been written. To do this, we initially used an example Read More
This week in Year 4
26/09/2025 · No comments yet
How do fireworks explode? In English this week, we have been finding out all about fireworks and how they work. We have used this information to start writing explanation texts. The children have done some excellent research and are impressing us with their use of language. Meet Rambashi In guided reading this week, 4SL Read More
Electric Explanations!
19/09/2025 · No comments yet
English This week, we have been continuing our work on explanation texts and how to construct them – focusing primarily on organising paragraphs and writing clear conclusions. The children were able to carefully select the information that they wanted to include in each paragraph and create subheadings that clearly indicated what each paragraph was Read More
