WELCOME TO YEAR 4! 

Meet the Team

2024-25

Summer 1:

P.E 

Monday - Swimming

Friday - Outdoor PE

Monday - Diaries checked

Times Tables and KIRFS (Key Instant Recall Facts)

Dates for the Diary:

16th June 2025- 17th June 2025 - Walesby Forest Residential

Summer 1 Week Beginning 22nd April 

Welcome back! We have started back with our WOW day to introduce our new topic 'Teeth to Toilet!' The children have spent the morning learning about teeth and making 3D models of the mouth and spent the afternoon learning about the digestive system and took part in a brilliant but gruesome practical activity to demonstrate how the body digests food! 

Spring 2 Week Beginning 31st March 

For our final week of tennis, we continued to work on our accuracy, hand-eye coordination and ball control as well as introducing the overhead serve. We finished the session by enjoying mini games of tennis which we enjoyed putting all of the skills we have learnt together. 

Spring 2 Week Beginning 24th March 

This week we have enjoyed being explorers as part of our Geography Fieldwork. We compared our school environment to that of the Amazon Rainforest. We walked around the school, taking note of the different features and considered how we could record them on a map. We imagined what it would be like to walk through the Amazon Rainforest and explored resources to help us and then created comparative maps.

Spring 2 Week Beginning 17th March 

This week children have been working hard in PE learning dance skills. They have not only practiced a dance routine but incorporated amazing gymnastic skills. Children showed their cartwheels, handstands, bridges and even headstands! It was great to see them work as a team, supporting each other. 

Spring 2 Week Beginning 10th March 

This week children have learnt all about the water cycle and how it links to rainforests. As part of this children have created their very own water cycle in a bag using: zip lock bags, water, white board pens and blue food colouring. Children have been excited each day to check in their cycle and see the changes happening based on the weather. Children have been able to apply their knowledge and new vocabulary when talking about our varied weather this week!

Spring 2 Week Beginning 3rd March

This week as as part of World Book Day celebrations children enjoyed a day full of amazing book themed activities to inspire a love of reading! Year 4 looked at some graphic novels and had a go at creating their own, we have made these into our very own class books. Children also made some story cubes which, gave them a character, setting and incident, they then used this to create their own stories. They came up with some incredible stories. It was fantastic to see everyone dressed up in their comfy clothes ready to enjoy a day of reading. 

Spring 2 Week Beginning 24th February 

This week as part of our WOW day year 4 have enjoyed making a diorama of the rainforest.  Children liked using their creative skills to demonstrate their knowledge of the rainforest, they labelled the layers of the rainforest and event created some animals to show where in the rainforest they would live. Children also used their map skills to identify key rainforests around the world such as the Amazon!

Spring 1 Week Beginning 10th February 

Today the children enjoyed having the opportunity to practise their table tennis skills on the full size tables. We have built up to this point and the children showed excellent progression from the start of term. They also enjoyed playing competitive team building games where they worked together effectively and cooperatively. 

Spring 2 Week Beginning 3rd February

Thank you so much to those who were able to attend our Parent Workshop, we hope you found the ideas useful. Any extra work that you can do with your children at home on the resources we sent home would be gratefully appreciated. 

Spring 1 Week Beginning 27th January

We have really enjoyed learning to play table tennis during indoor P.E and are becoming more confident with rallies. Next week we will introduce the nets and start proper games. 

Spring 1 Week Beginning 20th January

We had a fantastic day visiting Perlethorpe, learning all about the Vikings! We made Viking Settlements in the woods, visited a Viking Longhouse and took part in some re-enactments!

Spring 1 Week Beginning 13th January

This week we have really enjoyed continuing our guitar lessons and performing as part of an ensemble. 

Spring 1 Week Beginning 6th January

We have enjoyed learning about our new topic on 'Invaders and Settlers' and started the week off with our WOW day! We carefully made Viking longboats following step by step instructions and enjoyed writing our names in Viking Runes. 

   Autumn 2 Week Beginning 16th December

Our final week of 2024 has come to an end! From Miss Booth and Mrs Wright, we would like to say a massive thank you to all of the children in class 9 and 10 for a fantastic Autumn term and we wish you an even better 2025! Have a look at some of our party pictures and activities, where unfortunately the grinch did end up ruining Christmas by stealing all of the presents! (bean bags) but not all was lost, as we still managed to enjoy the rest of the party!

Merry Christmas!

Autumn 2 Week Beginning 9th December

This week in Design Technology we have been exploring Roman architecture and the use of columns in their buildings. On Friday we took part in an experiment to test which column would be the strongest, out of a circular, triangular and square column. Have a look at our photo's to see which column could take the most amount of books! In the afternoon we then started creating our own column designs.

Autumn 2 Week Beginning 2nd December

This week in history we learnt that Roman's created straight roads with paving. We looked closer at how they carefully thought about designing the roads and created our own cross section of a Roman road using biscuits and chocolate! We had 15 minutes to work as a team to create the best cross section. Here are a few of our pictures below ...

Autumn 2 Week Beginning 25th November

This week we used maps and an atlas to identify the countries that had been invaded by the Roman empire. We had to work collaboratively in our teams to try and figure out how the map puzzles fit together, based on the year that they represented.

Autumn 2 Week Beginning 18th November

This week the children have been learning about routers and networks in computing, as well as the differences between websites and webpages. The children were then asked to explore a list of websites and webpages to find out what information they could find on each site.

Autumn 2 Week Beginning 11th November

This week the children have been working on rolls, balances and travelling steps in gymnastics. In small groups they collaborated to create a routine which showcased the various different skills that they had learnt in the previous lesson. 

Autumn 2 Week Beginning 4th November

This week we introduced our new topic 'Rampaging Romans.'

On Thursday we had our WOW day, where we learnt about Roman catapults, Roman shields and laurel wreaths. The children spent the morning creating miniature catapults and laurel wreaths. In the afternoon they researched designs for Roman shields and sketched their favourite design on to a piece of paper. 

Autumn 1 Week Beginning 7th October

This week we wrote a set of instructions on 'How to keep you Iron Creature happy' we used rhetorical questions, time adverbials and expanded noun phrases to improve our instructions. We then shared our instructions with a partner and helped each other edit and improve our writing. 

Autumn 1 Week Beginning 30th September

This week we have been busy learning our times tables! We also had our first parents evening over the Tuesday and Thursday after school, thank you to all of the parents that attended.

As a reminder we have our first parent workshop coming up on Tuesday 15th October at 9 am. This will be based on how to support your child with times tables and will be a chance for parents to get involved in some of our various activities!

Autumn 1 Week Beginning 23rd September

This week we started our guitar lessons! The children were taught how to sit and hold a guitar the correct way and were then introduced to some of the Beatles music where they were asked to play along!

Autumn 1 Week Beginning 16th September

We have started our week off in style with a Silent Disco! The children (and adults) loved it! It was wonderful to see the children happily dancing and singing together.

Autumn 1 Week Beginning 9th September

This week in year 4 we have been exploring their new science topic 'Flashes and Bangs.' The children have learnt how to build a simple circuit using, wires, bulbs and batteries. They used a variety of  creative habits such as being 'persistent' and 'collaborating' in order to work successfully in groups to get the light bulb to light up! 

 Autumn 1 Week Beginning 2nd September

 We have had a wonderful start to the new academic year in class 9 and 10. This week we have been learning about all of the things that 'We can be.' The children thought about what they would like to achieve or become in the future and created their own dream catchers using sticks that they foraged from the school grounds and colourful wool.