Year 4 News
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
A sunny week!
02/05/2025 · No comments yet
What a lovely, sunny week it has been! Here are some of the things Year 4 have been getting up to: Maths In maths we have started our work on decimals. We have been writing tenths as fractions and decimals, using place value charts and number lines to represent decimals, and using our understanding Read More
A New Term Begins!
25/04/2025 · No comments yet
Despite only having a three day week, the children have been hard at work with their learning. In Maths, we have been finishing our work on fractions, focusing specifically on how to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator. Next week, we will start exploring the concept of decimals and I am certain Read More
A musical week!
04/04/2025 · No comments yet
Our highlight in Year 4 this week was definitely making our musical instruments in D.T. The children did fantastically well, showing amazing independence, focus and team-work. They used tools sensibly and applied their scientific knowledge when thinking about how to construct and play their instruments. Well done Year 4! A big thank you to Read More
