Year 4
Welcome to the Year 4 blog page!
Our aim is to make your child’s learning exciting and fun, and have lots of fun along the way.
We aim to foster a nurturing and supportive environment so your children will come into school with a smile on their faces, and not be afraid to learn from any mistakes. They will feel comfortable to become independent learners, and share ideas within our class.
We have designed our curriculum to ensure that children get a broad and balanced diet of daily English and Maths, and weekly lessons in a variety of topics, including computing, science and humanities. We aim to present our lessons creatively through a mixture of written work, drama and multimedia.
We know that it is important for children to stay active and keep their mind and bodies healthy, therefore we take part in weekly PE sessions. Our PE day is Wednesday, so please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit every Wednesday. We will be outside as much as we can, so you need to ensure that your child has suitable footwear and clothing. In Year 4, we go swimming on a Tuesday afternoon, and your child will need a towel, swimming costume/trunks and a suitable bag to carry these items in.
Every week, we will be setting homework and spellings, we aim to do this using Purple Mash, so it is important that your child knows their username and password. If you have any issues accessing the internet contact school.
Reading books will be changed weekly and it is our expectation that your child reads at home with a family member and that there is a comment in their reading record. This will be checked weekly by the year 4 team.
In Year 4, we have to complete the Year 4 Times Table Test, which was initially started last year. It will test the children’s knowledge on all the times tables right up to 12X12, therefore it is imperative that children are confident in recalling their times tables. We will be practicing these a lot in school, but it will be highly beneficial to continue this practice at home. If you would like more information on the times table test, or any ideas to support your child’s learning at home, please feel free to speak to either teacher.
Thank you for visiting our page and keep up to date with all the exciting learning on our class twitter page. If you do have any further questions, then please speak to one of the team after school.
Dharma
Date: 15/11/2018
We had a great time learning all about the 10 duties and responsibilities used by people who follow the Hindu faith. It soon became clear to us that many of their values and drivers are very similar to…
Benchball antics
Date: 09/11/2018
In Year 4, we love benchball and dodgeball. Here are a few pictures from this week's lesson.
A Little Bird told me
Date: 09/11/2018
This week, in anticipation of anti bullying week, we have had great fun retelling the story of Little Bird before we write a persuasive letter next week....
We taught our parents our reading skills
Date: 02/11/2018
In Year 4, we are so lucky to have so many mums and dads, brothers and sisters who want to know what we are doing in school. Many were able to join us for an hour on Friday morning so that we could share…
A cute way to learn if we're not being obtuse!
Date: 22/10/2018
We have enjoyed learning some of the geometric features of shape - acute and obtuse angles, learning to identify a right angle and now horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel lines (don't tell…
Training for Cross Country
Date: 19/10/2018
In the beautiful autumn sunshine, Mrs Sketchley challenged us to 6 laps of the Key Stage 2 grounds. We were supposed to pace ourselves and run the whole thing steadily but a few of us are competitive…
Let us have a team challenge ... LETTERS have a team challenge
Date: 17/10/2018
We undertook our third team challenge of the year today and tried to use our bodies to form letters. Some teams were more successful than others and some letters were far more tricky to form than others. …
Taking a new angle on maths lessons...
Date: 17/10/2018
We do try to make maths lessons interactive and fun and today we found a new angle. We went outside to look for right angles, acute angles and obtuse angles in the key stage 2 playground. We'd like to…
Shhh! Don't wake the dragon
Date: 11/10/2018
Today we put some of our key learning habits to the test when we played Don't Wake the Dragon. The person who was 'IT' had to risk being a failure and use his or her awareness skills. The wider circle…
Litter picking challenge
Date: 10/10/2018
In Science, we are still looking at the impact that humans have on animal habitats. In our lesson today, we interpreted some results from another school's survey and then conducted one of our own to answer…
