Year 4 News
Super Skippers, Impressive Investigators and Vicious Vikings!
28/02/2025 · No comments yet
This week has been absolutely jam-packed with activites that we in Year4 just can’t wait to share with you! The biggest event of this week was, of course, the Skipping Festival. After a half-term of practise, we had the unenviable job of choosing just thirty children to take part in the event and though Read More
Year 4 News
14/02/2025 · No comments yet
We’ve come to the end of a half term filled with skipping, dragons, Anglo-Saxons, digestion, multiplication, Mamma-Mia and much more! The Digestive System With the excitement of our trips to Murton Park last week, we didn’t get round to sharing these pictures of our very fun, slightly disgusting science investigation all about how the Read More
Fantastic Trips to Murton Park
07/02/2025 · 1 comment
Year 4 had two very successful trips to Murton Park this week, travelling back to the Anglo-Saxon Age and learning all about Saxon society, their daily lives, and the threats they faced from Viking invasions. Saxon Society First, the children learnt about where the Saxons came from, why they settled in Britain, how society Read More
This week in Year 4
31/01/2025 · No comments yet
Over the last two weeks in maths we have been developing our methods for multiplying and dividing larger numbers. We have looked at using place value counters and part-whole models to support us. When multiplying, we have linked this to the formal written method. This video explains the methods in more detail: It has Read More
Dragons, timelines and invasions!
17/01/2025 · No comments yet
English Year 4 have done some fantastic writing this week, describing some of the dragons from our class text: How to Train Your Dragon. We spent a couple of lessons generating ideas about what the dragons look, sound and smell like, as well as considering their personalities and the way they move on land Read More
A Snowy Beginning!
10/01/2025 · No comments yet
What a strange first week back! The snow and ice have certainly kept things interesting but despite the rather tricky conditions of the week, the children have risen to the occasion and tried their best! English In our English lessons this week, we have been focusing on developing our descriptive writing skills. After looking Read More
Happy Holidays!
20/12/2024 · 1 comment
The Year 4 team would like to wish all our families a fantastic break and, for those who are celebrating, a very merry Christmas. It’s been a fun final week of term, filled with shows and parties and crafting (don’t worry: we did fit in some ‘proper’ lessons too!). Here are a few photos Read More
A Week of Performances
14/12/2024 · No comments yet
This week feels as if it has been absolutely jam-packed! As well as doing our usual learning in lessons, the children have been hard at work practising to be part of the chorus of the Christmas production – a lot to squeeze in to one week! English This week, we have been really focused Read More
This week in Year 4
06/12/2024 · 1 comment
We have had another busy week in Year 4. As well as our usual lessons, we have started some end of term assessments and have also been busy learning the songs for the Christmas show. English In English this week, we have been reading, responding to and learning the poem ‘Granny’s Sugarcake’ by John Read More
Legendary Learning!
29/11/2024 · 1 comment
English In our English lessons this week, we have been hard at work planning and creating our extended writes based on the legends that we have been exploring for the last few weeks. The children were able to draw on a lot of the research that they had done, as well as some of Read More
