Year Four

Spring 1

We have enjoyed reading and immersing ourselves into our new class text - ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’.

The children have written fantastic abstract noun poems and explored new vocabulary that they can now add to

their writing. We have worked collaboratively to learn about expanded noun phrases and possessive plural apostrophes. For our big write this half term, the children have produced their own myths and have thought carefully about the characters and plot.

During our Maths lessons we have been learning about square numbers. We have also been working really hard on our times tables. We have been using our new knowledge to answer worded problems.

We have enjoyed learning all about the Anglo-Saxons in our History lessons and even enjoyed an Anglo-Saxon themed outdoor day. In Science, we have been constructing our own electrical circuits.

In Art, we experimented with tints and shades of colours by mixing black and white into the primary colours. This activity has started off our new topic 'Light and Dark'. 

Our PE lessons this half-term focused on Hockey (outdoors) and dance (indoors). 

In RE, we have enjoyed examining the key events in the Christmas story and we have also studied key events in Jesus' life (The Presentation, Jesus' Baptism and The Transfiguration). The children have shown how well they can empathise with characters in the stories. They have enjoyed creating comic strips and performing roleplays. 

The children had an excellent outdoor day this week. Our topic this term is the ancient  Maya civilisation. As part of our activities we created Gods eyes using natural materials and we also used our orienteering skills to help with our spellings.

This week in mathematics the children have been practising rounding 3 and 4 digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred or thousand. They have enjoyed using equipment and number lines to support their understanding. 
 

Week Beginning 16th September 2024

We have had another excellent week of learning. In science we have been exploring different stated of matter and have begun to study the Maya civilisation in our history topic.

In English the children have continued to analyse the structure and language of our class text ‘the Whale’. In mathematics we are continuing to develop or place value and rounding skills to the nearest 10 and 100. The children have been exploring partitioning and representing 4-digit numbers.

The children have enjoyed beginning their topic on the Maya civilisation. They explored different types of masks used by the Maya people and had a go at designing and creating their own. Well done children for all of your hard work on this. 

On Friday, we celebrated the Blessed Virgin Mary's birthday that will take place on 8th September. The children took part in a prayer service and a wrote prayers to Mary.