Old Basford School Opportunities Bring Success
Year 4
Meet the Team
2025-2026
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Mr Brown - Class 9 |
Miss Tarlowski - Class 10 T-F |
Mrs Jones - Class 10 M |
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Miss Williams - Teaching Assistant |
Miss Lawson - Teaching Assistant |
Welcome to Year 4!
If you were unable to make it to our meet the teacher date. please refer to the document below.
Spring 1 Timetable and Dates
Monday - diary check
Tuesday - outdoor PE
Wednesday - indoor PE
Homework
1. Read and discuss books - from school or home and record in diaries. Use the relevant stuck in sheets to support.
2. Use Times Table Rock Stars. Y4 have an assessment in June.
3. Practise your spellings each week.
4. Every half term complete your creative topic homework.
Useful Documents to support learning
SPRING 1
Week beginning 26th January
Children enjoying being creative in our amazing art room making clay amulets with their initials written in Viking Runes. Absolutely love the fact that they were so engrossed nobody realised I was taking their photo!
Week beginning 19th January
A BIG thank you to all the parents and carers who attended Tuesday morning's workshop which focussed on how to support your child learn their spellings. If you were unable to attend, ALL children were sent home with a pack.
This week, our Year 4s have been immersed into our new Writing text, Beowulf! They have done some fantastic drama work to better understand the text and have had some real fun acting out Beowulf's battle scene against the wicked Grendel. We've also learnt some excellent, new vocabulary words, from the Beowulf text, which the children have been trying hard to use in sentences.
Week beginning Monday 12th January
Year 4 have been hard at work this week! We've been learning all about the Anglo Saxons and where they came from. Even looking at theirs and the Viking alphabet called 'Runes'. Enjoying reading the book Viking Boy and have been getting so much better at table tennis!
Week beginning Monday 5th January
Perlethorpe was chilly but a huge amount of fun! Here are some pictures of Class 9 and 10 learning about the Vikings and taking part in a den building activity.
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AUTUMN 2 - THE RAMPAGING ROMANS
This half term, we will be learning all about the Romans and how they impacted our lives today.
We'll be learning about:
- Naming some countries that were part of the Roman Empire
- Why did the Romans invade Britain?
- Why did the Romans build roads in Britain?
- Why did the Romans build Hadrian’s Wall?
- Who was Boudica and why is she important?
Week beginning 15th December
We really enjoyed listening to children who brought their homework in at the end of this half-term. Thank you for all your hard work!
Week beginning 8th December
Some amazing gymnastics from Miss Talia's dance class!
Week beginning 1st December
This week has been a busy week for our children as they've been doing some reading, Maths and SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar) assessments. They've worked ever so hard on these and we're really proud of them all. They did get messy and creative during a very enjoyable History topic lesson about Roman roads. They looked at the different layers of what a Roman road was made up of and then smashed up: cereal, smarties, biscuits and chocolate to recreate the roads. Great fun!!!
Week beginning 24th November
Our Year 4s have been hard at work this week! We discovered a time capsule treasure chest which our teachers left for us! Then the children got busy writing about a special object of ours and we even buried it on the school grounds!! The children were loving writing about some of their teachers' objects. During Art, the children got creative using chalk to design their own Roman columns. PE is where the children got to burn off a lot of energy, creating fantastic shapes!
Week beginning 17th November
The children have been enjoying our guitar lessons this half-term. Learning how to sing and play Mambo Italiano by Dean Martin. Fantastic musicians in Year 4! Within our History Topic, The Rampaging Romans, the children got creative after learning all about Hadrian's Wall. They were tasked with building a wall which included: a fort, turret and mile house.
Week beginning 10th November
Thank you to all the adults who were able to make our fantastic times tables and multiplication workshop. For those who weren't able to attend, here is a copy of what we spoke about and did during the workshop. Some excellent resources and games to make learning times tables fun and memorable for the children.
Times Tables and Multiplication Workshop
This week in art, we made mosaics out of bottle tops with the wonderful Mrs Maker.
Week beginning 3rd November
This half term started with us exploring some Roman artefacts and recording our ideas about them using the Lifecards app on the Ipads. We designed and made some Roman shields too.
This half term term, we read and write a description based on The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Our first maths focus is number and place value (see above attachment). In the afternoons, our first topic is called Flashes & Bangs and we will be learning about Electricity and Sound (see above attachment), making an Iron Man head with electrical eyes and lots more! Y4 will also have the privilege ow weekly guitar lessons as well as outdoor PE with Coach Hannah.
There's a lot to look forward to 
Week starting Monday 8th September
Lots of fun was had on our Wow day! There was a mysterious collection of metal objects on the school playground. It looked like a metal 'something' had walked of the top playground and fell down.... We then made robots on the field (Thankfully it was a sunny day!). Finally, we explored Garage Band on the Ipads, creating a soundtrack for an Iron Man.