Year 4: Blog items
Date: 11th Dec 2025 @ 9:17am
Year 3 and 4 had a fantastic time at the school disco this week! The hall was buzzing with excitement as the children enjoyed classic party games like pass the parcel, cheering each other on as each layer was unwrapped. The dance floor was full of energy, with everyone showing off their best moves to festive Christmas songs and their new favourite tracks from KPop Demon Hunters.
A highlight of the evening was joining Mrs Darwen for some lively Zumba dances, which had everyone laughing and moving together. Children also loved choosing treats from the Tuck Shop, and a special mention goes to those who showed wonderful kindness by buying snacks for friends who didn’t have any money. A brilliant, joy-filled celebration!
Date: 9th Dec 2025 @ 2:27pm
We loved our visit from Stage Ed today for our annual pantomime. This year was Cinderella. The panto began with Cinderella and Prince Charming telling the story of how they met. It was so much fun!
Year 4 - Christmas jumpers and Christmas dinner
Date: 8th Dec 2025 @ 10:54am
We loved getting festive today wearing our Christmas jumpers!
At lunchtime, we enjoyed a yummy Christmas dinner and enjoyed the Christmas tunes!
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 11:41am
Yes - we've had cheeky elves in Year 4 too!
Have a look at some of the mischief they've already caused...
Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 10:27am
Tree dressing is celebrated in different cultures all over the world. It’s a tradition that brings people closer to trees and highlights the important role they play in our lives. It’s also a great way of showing gratitude for all the benefits trees provide.
We loved dressing one of the trees in our outdoor area. It's so lovely to look outside and look at..
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Date: 3rd Dec 2025 @ 1:01pm
As our 'Repeating Patterns' journey continues, the pupils in year 4 began to create a surface pattern tile. Next lesson, they will use this to digitally create a repeating pattern to produce some Christmas wrapping paper. We look forward to sharing our finished products with you soon.
Date: 3rd Dec 2025 @ 12:01pm
This week, we listen and appraised the Rocking Romans song 'Spin that coin'. Then we had a go at singing it. There were numerous instrumentals in the song, so we used two notes on our glockenspiels (G and A) to play along during the instrumental. We were really good!
Year 4 - December Kindness Challenge
Date: 2nd Dec 2025 @ 10:22am
Our December kindness challenge is up and running in Year 4!
1st - Make your teacher a Christmas card
2nd - Hold the door open for someone
We can't wait to see more kindness not just in school but outside of school throughout December!
Date: 1st Dec 2025 @ 9:25am
Today, we looked at artist Rachel Parker. She specialises in surface pattern designs. It was so interesting to see her art in her sketchbooks then be used on this such as curtains, phone cases and rugs.
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.
