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!
Summer 2 Timetable and Dates
Monday - diary check
Tuesday - indoor PE
Wednesday - outdoor 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
Summer 2
Our final term in Year 4! The topic for his term 'Viva España'! We will be learning all about Spain and its culture. We will be focusing on Shakespeare's Macbeth for the first few weeks of our writing. In maths, we're going to be learning about time, shape, statistics and position and directions. We will also be doing our Multiplication Check in the next few weeks. Indoor PE (Tuesdays) will be indoor ball games and outdoor PE (Wednesdays) will be led by a professional coach from Trent Bridge Cricket Club.
Dates for the diary:
- Wednesday 10th June - INSET Day - School is closed to children.
- Thursday 11th June - School class photos
- Tuesday 16th June - Trip to Nottingham Tennis Centre
- Thursday 18th June - Friday 19th June - Walesby overnight camping
- Wednesday 1st July - Summer fair 3.30-4.30
- Wednesday 15th July - Y4 and Y5 Fun Run at Ellis Guildford School
- Wednesday 22nd July - PROUD Achievement Assembly 2.45pm
Week beginning Monday 1st June
To kick off our last half term term, the whole school has been involved in our annual Shakespeare week! This year we studied Macbeth. The focus this week has been on DRAMA! We acted out different parts of the play, worked in groups and made our own spell. Year 4 were lucky to be taught by Martha Toogood - an expert practitioner who has visited the school for several years.
Summer 1
We can't believe it is summer term already! The topic for this term is 'Teeth to Toilet'! The focus is on digestion and teeth. We are reading The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf and our writing is based on this too. In maths, we are learning about decimals and money. RE focusses on Hinduism and in art, we are using observational skills to create still life using a range of media. We will also be doing our RSE curriculum in Summer 1. Indoor PE is led by Coach Hannah and we are doing gymnastics. Children will either be swimming or taking part in invasion games in outdoor PE. We will also be continuin our guitar lessons with Rhys.
Dates for the diary:
- Wednesday 15th April am - Me v ME, a sporting event in hall. PE uniform required
- Wednesday 29th April am - Me v ME, a sporting event in hall. PE uniform required.
- Tuesday 6th May 3:30 - Walesby meeting in hall
- Friday 15th May 9:00 -11:00 KS2 Sports Day
- Tuesday 19th May 3:00 Showcase of work in classes
- Wednesday 20th May - Diversity Day in school
Week beginning Monday 18th May
Our final week of our half term has been a very productive one! It was fantastic to see so many parents come in for our in class work showcase. Thanks a lot to those parents! The children love seeing you come in and it was great to share all our hard work we've put in this topic.
We also had our Cultural Diversity Day. This is a day where children can dress in their cultures clothes and wow! Children throughout the school wore some of the most amazing garments and jewellery with pride which was beautiful to see. We had a huge parade around the school with singing and dancing, and of course... flag waving!
Week beginning Monday 11th May
The highlight of this week for everyone was... SPORTS DAY!!! Children behaved fantastically throughout, and really showed all of our PROUD rules during the events. All children tried their hardest and participated with huge smiles on their faces!
Week beginning Monday 4th May
Our Year 4s have dived into a new writing unit, writing an informational travel guide to Nottingham and Basford. We always introduce the children to high-level vocabulary which we encourage them to use in their writing to increase their ever expanding vocabulary. We played lots of different types of games to get them using these words and practising them in sentences.
We also finished our Science experiment, showing what different liquids can do to your teeth (represented using egg shells) and the children thoroughly enjoyed the smells and textures of the eggs and all the different types of liquids.
Week beginning Monday 27th April
The excitement was at another level this week for our Year 4s with the return of the second Me v Me Challenge! The children's behaviour was absolutely brilliant and they all excelled with their results. Special shout out to Jaylen, Daniel and Amirah for getting our 3 most improved scores. Also a huge shoutout for Umika getting our teacher's award for being such a great participant, always with a huge smile on her face.
Week beginning Monday 20th April
During our Science lessons this week, the children were learning all about our digestive system, different parts of it and what they do. We got outside and enjoyed drawing around ourselves and labelling these parts of the body.
Week beginning Monday 13th April
Well done to all the children participating in the Me v Me event, led by Ellis Guildford staff and our fantastically helpful Y6. We get to do it again in two weeks, when the aim of the event will be to beat our own scores from last time.
On Monday, we had our WOW Day where the children were introduced to our new topic 'Teeth to Toilet' and we were enjoying making healthy sandwiches in the morning and in the afternoon... they got their hands messy as we showed the children how food and drink travels through our body. They used tights to squeeze out all the food and drink. Yes there was a lot of fun had... and a lot of screaming and ewing!
SPRING 2
Week beginning Monday 23rd March
Here are a selection of our amazing homework projects about the rainforest.
Week beginning Monday 16th March
Year 4 got creative and made some fantastic bird sculptures with the expert guidance of Mrs Maker. Class 9 had a whole afternoon of Art to make these and had so much fun using weird household objects to create their own unique birds. We had tin foil hats, googly eyes and glue everywhere! Class 10 will have there double Art session next week.
Week beginning Monday 9th March
Our Year 4s have been getting artistic with Mrs Maker and using wax crayons to create Amazon Rainforest inspired birds.
Week beginning Monday 2nd March
Absolutely LOVING the class's focus during a World Book Day online 'Footy and Booky' quiz and enjoying our home and school books in class!
Week beginning 23rd February
Our Year 4's had a brilliant WOW day to get them immersed in our new topic 'Rumble in the Jungle'. We're looking all at rainforests, in particular the Amazon Rainforest. The children found a mysterious backpack full of useful objects, received a letter from a girl in an Amazon tribe and explored our school grounds, focusing on our environment, what we can hear, see and smell. The children were very interested in learning all about different types of trees and enjoyed our tree bingo hunt. We even created a pizza wheel. This is where the children are grouped up, and given a slice of pizza (cardboard unfortunately) and then they go and explore the area that the piece of carboard was facing. The items them found were fantastic!!!
SPRING 1
Week beginning 9th February
Monday was our DT day and the children got ready to create some fantastic Viking Long ships, by getting out on the playground, measuring out a real sized long ship and then acting as if they were pulling the oars. We had some fantasticc skippers to shout us through it!
When inside, the children researched, planned, made and evaluated their Viking long ships which, after lots of perseverance and hard work, look absolutely spectacular!
Week beginning 2nd February
Our Year 4s got busy and creative designing their front cover for our Writing Unit, which has been an Action Saga, based on the book Beowulf, with a hero fighting against a gruesome monster.
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.