Year 4
The Year 4 staff team are very excited to welcome you to our class page. We have so many fun things planned for our learning journey this year. We will be learning about topics including endangered animals, digestion, the Ancient Egyptians, the Anglo Saxons and Vikings and lots more. We will update this page regularly so please visit often. We welcome any feedback from parents on content you might find useful.
Important Reminders
Year 4 will have PE on Tuesdays and Swimming on Thursdays (24th April, 1st May, 8th May, 15th May, 22nd May, 5th June, 12th June, 19th June). From
On these days children should come in wearing their PE/swimming kits
Summer Term Parent Booklet
Meet the Year 4 Team 2024-2025
Miss Pocock
4PF Teacher
(Monday + Friday)
Miss Fortune
4PF Teacher
(Tuesday - Thursday)
Mrs Herron
4H Teacher
Mr Willard
PPA PE teacher
Mrs Thomas
PPA Art and DT teacher
Mrs Glatzhofer- Class TA
Mrs Gibson- Class TA
Mrs O'Gorman - 1:1 TA
Miss Budd- Key worker
Curriculum Yearly Overview
Topic Homework
Spelling Homework
What we've been up to...
September
In Literacy, we read the book 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx'. Marcy had lots of fears. Her father went to Egypt to get a book to help her overcome her fears but he got in trouble so Marcy travelled to save him. We wrote a suspense narrative about the rescue with short snappy sentences, show not tell, and powerful adverbs.
In 4P's music lessons, we have learnt the notes B, A G on the recorder so that we can perform the song Merrily We Roll Along. Listen to our first performance.
October
To help us learn about the Egyptians we had an Egyptian Day. We enjoyed coming to school dressed up as pharaohs. During the day we solved hieroglyphic codes, completed an 'excavation' to learn about the Ancient Egyptians from artefacts and even learned about mummification by mummifying tomatoes!
November
In science we have started learning all about the properties of solids, liquids and gases. There were some materials which were a bit confusing such as jelly (because it is a solid when it is set but a liquid before it is set) and rice (because you can pour it like a liquid but we learnt each grain is a solid). We also made some Oobleck which is a non-Newtonian fluid meaning it is normally a liquid but under pressure it turns into a solid. This is the recipe for making Oobleck at home.
January
We have been learning about the water cycle in science. We learnt a song and made our own water cycles in a bag! Can you child tell you all about the water cycle using the words: evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection?
