Year 4: Blog items
Year 4 - Making a lever system
Date: 26th Nov 2025 @ 3:04pm
A couple of weeks ago, we started to learn about linkage and lever systems in Design and Technology. We received a letter from The Card Factory asking us to design and make Christmas cards. We used split pins and a template to make a lever system this week to make a waving hand.
Date: 25th Nov 2025 @ 12:57pm
In this maths lesson, pupils in year 4 were dividing 2-digit and 3-digit numbers by 10. To support understanding, some pupils used base 10 equipment to exchange 100s for 10s and 10s for 1s. Using manipulatives in math is highly beneficial because they make abstract concepts more concrete and easier to understand.
Date: 25th Nov 2025 @ 10:10am
The classroom buzzed with excitement as tables were covered with paper cups, orange juice, zip-lock bags, and a pair of tights (yes, tights!). The children were curious—“Are we really going to make a stomach?”—and that curiosity set the tone for an unforgettable lesson.
Step by step, we built our digestive system model:
- Mouth: We started by breaking up pieces of bread, just like chewing.
- Stomach: The bread went into a zip-lock bag with orange juice (our stomach acid). The children loved squishing the bag to mimic churning!
- Intestines: Then came the tights—our pretend intestines. We squeezed the mixture through, watching the liquid drip out, representing nutrients being absorbed.
The reactions were priceless:
“Eww, that’s gross!”
“Wow, so that’s how food gets broken down!”
Date: 25th Nov 2025 @ 10:04am
What a great morning at our Together Time today. We welcomed in parents and carers to our programming lesson on Scratch. Before we got started, we showed our parents our Sensory Circuit which gets us ready for the day! Then we followed instructions from Scratch to code a fun game. Our teachers were very impressed with our knowledge...and the parents!
Date: 24th Nov 2025 @ 8:21pm
Reading is such an important skill that offers children so much. Regular guided reading in Year 4 is more than just a lesson—it’s a gateway to lifelong learning. By fostering comprehension, confidence, and curiosity, we prepare pupils not only for academic success but for a world where reading is a vital skill. Today, pupils were introduced to a new text and given time to read and explore it before listening to it being read by an adult.
Date: 23rd Nov 2025 @ 11:09am
This week our activity was all about slowing down and connecting with creativity through sensory drawing, inspired by artist Sol LeWitt. The children explored lines and shapes in a relaxed manner, letting their hands move freely without worrying about the outcome. Guided by touch and feeling, each mark became part of a calming rhythm that encouraged mindfulness as much as imagination. It was a joyful reminder that art can be both meditative and expressive, giving space for children to discover their own unique way of seeing and creating.
Year 4 - Finding Features in Texts
Date: 20th Nov 2025 @ 8:01am
As part of our 'Reading into Writing' journey, pupils in year 4 have been identifying the features of play scripts. After a class discussion exploring a examplar play script, pupils worked in pairs to identify the features in a range of examples, including extracts from Jack and the Beanstalk and George's Marvellous Medicine. Pupils will now begin to plan, draft and publish their own play script.
Date: 19th Nov 2025 @ 1:28pm
This week, we found a fun new brain break to have a go at! We enjoy having a break and then being ready for the next lesson.
Date: 13th Nov 2025 @ 8:42am
This week is Anti-Bullying Week, and our fabulous Year 4 students have been diving into the important topic of bullying. They’ve been learning how to recognise bullying and discussing what to do if they find themselves in such situations or witness them happening to others. The children shared their thoughts and opinions while we explored various scenarios together. Additionally, they discovered the key difference between a bystander and an upstander, empowering them to take positive action. What a fantastic week of learning!
Year 4 - What stains our teeth?
Date: 11th Nov 2025 @ 10:12am
This week, we did an experiment to observe what happens to our teeth when we drink certain drinks and don't brush them. We left eggs in coke, diet coke, orange juice, milk, water, tea and coffee over the weekend. The egg shell acted as our teeth enamel, so we needed to observe whether or not the enamel could protect our teeth in various drinks. Due to the sugar content, diet coke and coke stained the worst.
Date: 11th Nov 2025 @ 10:09am
Planting our poppies ready for our Remembrance service later.
Date: 10th Nov 2025 @ 4:37pm
To commemorate Armistice Day this year, pupils in year 4 have created a watercolour landscape of poppy flowers. Pupils used a variety of painting skills such as 'wet on wet' and 'wet on dry' to create background and foreground. They also used the end of the brush to create lines and shapes in the paint.
Date: 5th Nov 2025 @ 10:29am
This week, we started our unit on Area. During our first lesson, we used post-it notes to show that using the same number of post-it notes gives us a rectilinear shape with the same area no matter their positioning because we used the same four squares.
Year 4 - Teeth and their functions
Date: 4th Nov 2025 @ 10:10am
This week, we looked at the different names and functions our teeth have. We tried eating an apple using just our incisors, but it was super tricky because these teeth are for biting not chewing.
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 9:07am
To celebrate Black History Month, pupils in year 4 have written non-chronological reports about Viv Anderson - the first black person to represent the England senior national football team. Pupils enjoyed finding aout about Viv's early life - his parents were part of the Windrush Generation, who moved to England after World War 2. Here are a few examples of the children's writing.
Year 4 - Creating Digital Images
Date: 16th Oct 2025 @ 8:09am
In this lesson, pupils were challenged to make a fantasy book cover using their digital lieracy skills. Using a range of software, pupils had to combine and edit digital images to create a photorealistic image. As well as developing the pupils' digital literacy skills, this has also raised awareness of 'fake' or edited images online.
Date: 9th Oct 2025 @ 4:31pm
This week Boundary Primary School celebrated Harvest Festival. Year 6 led the celebration assembly together with our special guest, Reverend Peter. We talked about being thankful for the food we eat, our good health and the life we live. The children and their families helped by donating food to Vincent House.Thank you to everyone for their support.
Date: 8th Oct 2025 @ 1:13pm
This week, our genre focus has been a poem about Autumn. We used our oracy skills to perform the poem at the beginning of the week and then using Widgits and our inference skills we discussed and found out the meaning of difficuly vocabulary.
Date: 6th Oct 2025 @ 12:46pm
Today we held our first Spelling Bee of the year. Each house was represented by the best spellers from Year 2 - Year 6 and the children were tested on spellings they have been learning in Autumn 1. We are very proud of all the children for being their house representative and spelling some very tricky words in front of the whole school. The overall winners were Chepstow, who managed to spell 12/15 spellings across all 5 years groups.
Year 4 - BHM Non-Chronological Reports
Date: 6th Oct 2025 @ 10:25am
Pupils in year 4 have been learning how to write a non-chronological report. As this journey nears its conclusion, pupils have spent time editing and improving the draft of their final piece of writing. As October is Black History Month, we decided to write our reports about Viv Anderson, who was the first black person to represent England in a senior international football match.
Date: 1st Oct 2025 @ 7:51am
In this lesson the children were learning about changes in state. We started by flshing-back to prior learning about the states of matter and the children knew that all matter can exist as a solid, liquid or gas. We then conducted some simple experiments to show the processes of melting, freezing, evaporating and condensing. We linked these processes to things we see in everyday life, such as mirrors 'steaming up' in a warm bathroom.
Year 4 Multiplication Check - Information for parents (gov.uk)
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 6:11pm
Please find attached the gov.uk information about the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check in June.
Year 4 - Days of the week and colours
Date: 30th Sep 2025 @ 6:07pm
Over the last couple of weeks in French we have been recapping and learning the days of the week and colours in French. We even learned how to count to 20! You can find some videos of us speaking French using the QR code on this post.
Year 4 - Non Chronological Report - Shared Write
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 10:14am
Today, we completed a shared write about Black History Month, which is next month. We had to use our knowledge of the features of non-chronological reports to set out the information we were given correctly.
Date: 25th Sep 2025 @ 10:07am
Earlier this week, children who wanted to run for School Council presented their manifestos to their class. They presented with clear and confident voices. Today, was voting day! We will find out who has been elected this afternoon. Good luck to all the candidates!
