Welcome to Year 4 2024-2025

Spring 1 highlights.

We have had a great start to the spring term in year 4. The children came back from the Christmas holidays raring to go with our new 'One Minute to Midnight' topic. To start off our learning, the children completed a carousel of activities where they looked at abstract art, suitable materials to make an eco-friendly shopping bag, read articles on climate change and completed an activity where they learnt how to reduce their carbon footprint. In DT the children designed and made their own eco-friendly tote bag. They learnt a variety of stitches to sew their bags together and used applique to sew on their logos and slogans. The bags were absolutely fantastic! We also took part in 'Factory of the Future' live online where we met a robot who helped us to make choices about the best way to build a carbon zero factory. 

In English, we started a wordless picture book called 'Flood' by Alvaro F. Villa. The children produced some beautiful writing to go alongside the pictures in this book, which told a story of a family whose house was destroyed by a flood and how they rebuilt it again. We then moved onto a song unit where we listened to the song 'So Good to Me' by Chris Malinchak, so far the children have made missing pet posters, written diary entries and made predictions about what happens next. In Maths we have been doing lots of multiplication and division this half term. In RE, we looked at the big question 'What is the Trinity?' The children reflected well on this question and produced beautiful reflections and art work. In Science, we carried out a melting experiment in response to the question 'How does the temperature of water affect the time it takes for ice to melt?' In Music, we started on a unit of work called 'Rivers'. In computing, we looked at animation where the children made thaumatropes and flipbooks. 

We can't wait for Spring 2 where we have lots of fantastic learning coming up including finishing our topic, learning about sound and electricity in science, learning about perimeter, fractions and decimals in maths and starting some interesting texts in English. 

Autumn 2

In the second half of the Autumn Term, Year 4 will be reading the story 'The Fox Who Stole the Moon' they will writing a diary entry and newspaper report as part of their English learning. In Maths, our focus will first be on area and we will then move onto multiplication & division. States of Matter is the next Science unit, followed by data collection in biology. We will continue to learn all about water on our 'White Water Adventure' in topic. In PE, we will be starting with dodgeball.

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Miss Mulgrew and Miss McNulty are so proud of how well year 4 have settled in. We have done some amazing learning this half term. Read on to find out more!

We started our 'White Water Adventure' topic and went on a field trip to the local stream, we took measurements of the water including the depth and the flow. We also spotted lots of plants and wildlife during our trip. In English we read the novel 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' where we wrote character descriptions, setting descriptions and created an extra chapter. In Maths we started with place value and then moved on to addition and subtraction, the children consolidated learning from year 3 while challenging themselves with new concepts and methods. In Science we studied the biology unit 'Group and Classify Living Things' where children learnt about classification keys and vertebrates/invertebrates. In RE we started a 'Personal Responsibility' unit titled 'How might your worldview lead you to do hard things for good reasons?' During this learning we worked as philosophers and human & social scientists. In Music we completed a unit of work on 'Ancient China' which focused on pitch and reading and writing notation. We learnt about the pentatonic scale and harmonious sounds through composing, performing and singing tasks. 

Welcome to Year 4 2023 – 2024!

To start the new school year we have been sharing the text, ‘Our Class is a Family’ written by Shannon Olsen. We have thought about being part of a team as a class and a school and other teams we belong to. We have thought about our ‘jobs’ as learners and what makes a great learning partner and a really amazing friend.

Take a look at what we are learning about next this term!

Summer 1

This term we will be launching our curriculum topic ‘Under Attack’, where our Geography, History, Art and Design Technology focus will be focusing on aspects of Roman life. I can’t wait for us to start this topic and be historians. There will also be an exciting trip linked to our history learning.

Spring 2

This term our curriculum on One Minute to Midnight’ will have a lot of geography input, followed by an Art and Design and Technology focus. Once we have learnt about different aspects contributing to climate change, and then about the different types of reusable shopping bags, we will design our own shopping bags and use our sewing skills to make them. Thank you to all the parents who came in to assist in the children developing their sewing skills in week 1 – the class really enjoyed it.

In Art, we will be looking at abstract artists, and used similar techniques to produce our own pieces of abstract art around the theme of saving the planet.

Our English in Year 4 will be to produce some persuasion texts to the government to stop deforestation, linking to our geography learning. We will also complete our work on the video stimuli, ‘The Black Hat’.

During Spring term 2, we will also have our residential visit to Viney Hill. I can’t wait to hear everything about the children’s achievements when they return to school.

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