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Year 4 News – 16.10.26
Maths In maths this week, we have been practising our methods for column addition and subtraction, including where one or more exchange is required. Having a good understanding of these methods is really helpful when calculating and problem solving in all areas of maths. These videos explain how to use the methods, and might be […]
Read newsEditing Electric Explanations!
English This week, the children in both classes have been hard at work finishing off their firework explanations. Once they had finished their first drafts, the children then had to go back through them with an editor’s eye to find ways that they could be improved, whether that was by catching little errors in spelling […]
Read newsYear 4 News – 2.10.26
Maths We are coming up to the end of our unit on place value, and this week we have been busy rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000. We have used the rhyme ‘0 to 4 hit the floor, 5 to 9 climb the vine’ to help us decide whether to round up […]
Read newsAnother Fantastic Week!
Science In science this week, the children have been learning all about how circuits work. Since this is a fairly abstract concept, we decided to make it a little easier to understand by making a ‘human circuit’. For this, we assigned the role of lightbulb to the most positive and cheerful member of the class […]
Read newsYear 4 News – 18.9.26
We’ve had another busy week in Year 4! Maths In maths we have been continuing to explore the place value of numbers up to 10,000. We have been partitioning numbers in different ways, finding 1, 10, 100 or 1000 more or less, and looking at number lines up to 10,000. The work on number lines […]
Read newsWeek 2: Complete!
We are now two weeks into the year and the children all seemed to have settled in really well. All of the Year 4 staff have been really impressed by the levels of enthusiasm from both classes! English In our English lessons, we have been hard at work learning more about explanation texts – what […]
Read newsYear 4 News – 4.9.26
Welcome to Year 4! It has been wonderful welcoming the children into their new classes this week. Both classes have settled really well and have already demonstrated their positive attitudes to learning with some fantastic work and contributions to discussions! Newsletter You should have received a paper copy of our Year 4 newsletter with some […]
Read newsYear 4 News – 10.7.26
4SL Visit to Burnsall On Tuesday, just before the second heatwave, 4SL went on their rearranged visit to Burnsall. We had a lovely day, with lots of children commenting on the beautiful scenery and really enjoying spending the day ‘in nature’ with their friends. More than one member of the public stopped to tell staff […]
Read newsYear 4 News – 3.7.26
English In English we have started a short unit of work on poetry. We have been exploring haiku poems and learning about their structure. The children have been really interested in these and have quickly got the hang of how they work! 4SL had a go at writing some of their own today. While traditional […]
Read newsScorching Science!
This week, the children have been hard at work, primarily completing their end of year assessments for reading and maths. Despite the scorching heat, the children in both classes did a fantastic job maintaining their focus and giving their absolute best efforts in every test and should be very proud of themselves for doing so! […]
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