Year 4: Blog items
Date: 3rd Sep 2025 @ 10:19am
This year, we are introducing Sensory Circuits at the beginning of the school day to make sure we are ready for the day. Today, we did our first one and we loved it. We felt woken up and relaxed ready to learn!
Date: 1st Sep 2025 @ 3:13pm
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful summer!
Here is some information which was shared during the Meet The Teacher session this week.
- Overview for the year (attached)
- Swimming - every Wednesday - you will need a costume/shorts, towel and a swimming cap if your hair is passed shoulder length. You will only be allowed to wear goggles if you have a consent form filled in.
- Homework - set online every Thursday to be completed by the following Friday (Spag.com, TTRS and Reading Plus)
- Spelling - set online every Thursday. Tested the following Friday (Spelling Shed)
- W/C 8th June 2026 - Y4 will take part in the statutory Multiplication Check. You need to be practising your times tables throughout the year.
- Year 3/4 statutory words are attached for you to practise spelling throughout the year
- Reading books will start to go out next week
Date: 15th Jul 2025 @ 2:33pm
This week in Science, we research animals which are extinct and how they became extinct. Some of us were shocked that animals such as the West African Black Rhino became extinct as little as 14 years ago. Have a look at some of our presentations about them.
Date: 15th Jul 2025 @ 11:20am
To make up for our cancelled Sports Day today, we got the chance to go in the hall and do archery. We absolutely loved it!
Date: 14th Jul 2025 @ 3:01pm
Year 4 had an enjoyable transition session last week. The class focused on team-building exercises centered around some of our boundary promises—showing respect to others and working well together.
The children first played a guessing game where one child gave clues without using certain words. Next, they had to get everyone through a hula hoop in the quickest time possible. Laurel (the new Hawthorn) managed it in 33 seconds!
After that, they took part in various Taskmaster-style activities, such as using objects to create a tabletop game, building the tallest tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows, and designing an aeroplane that would travel the fastest.
Year 4 - Heritage Week - Showtown
Date: 14th Jul 2025 @ 2:56pm
Wow! What a great afternoon we had at Showtown museum in Blackpool during Heritage Week. We were first greeted by Snappy a 1950s photographer who showed us lots of pictures she took back then. Then we split off into four groups to explore the museum and learn more about Blackpool Tower and its construction. Back in school we did a double page spread on everything we learned about how Blackpool became a popular seaside resort.
Year 4 - The Farm came to visit us!
Date: 10th Jul 2025 @ 1:31pm
We had a great time visiting the animals in KS2 yard this morning!
Year 4 - Maple - Heritage Day - Trip to Showtown
Date: 30th Jun 2025 @ 11:59am
Wow! What a great morning at Showtown museum in Blackpool. We were first greeted by Snappy a 1950s photographer who showed us lots of pictures she took back then. Then we split off into four groups to explore the museum and learn more about Blackpool Tower and its construction. Back in school we did a double page spread on everything we learned about how Blackpool became a popular seaside resort.
Year 4 - Health and wellbeing week
Date: 28th Jun 2025 @ 8:58am
As part of Health Week, our class has taken part in many activities: glow sports, skateboarding, forest schools, and learning about the England Lionesses. We learned about two footballers’ achievements both on and off the pitch. The children then completed fact files about them showing their successes so far.
Date: 22nd Jun 2025 @ 8:49am
What a fun lesson this was! We got the chance to use our new Microbits! As part of our Computing unit this half term, we had to do some data logging. We decided we would take the temperature in different areas of school - it was a hot day! We programmed the Microbits to be thermometers and walked around school taking temperatures. We them decided to keep the Microbits for Always Time and programmed them to display our names, play rock, paper scissors and some of us were even able to programmed them to display different emojis.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 9:14am
Year 4 learned about funk music this week.
The children really enjoyed listening to a variety of funk music and finding out where it originated from. The children selected the song 'September' by Earth, Wind and Fire and sang it with enthusiasm in class! The children could not stop themselves from swaying and moving to the music.
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 8:58am
This week, we started to look at classification keys, how they work and what questions we need to ask to make them work. We learned we needed to ask closed questions and we needed to know similar and unique characteristics about the animals we were classifying.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 9:03am
This half term, we are looking at classifying animals. This week we focused on vertebrates. We used information around the classroom to find the characteristics of five vertebrates and then used Carroll and Venn diagrams to start to classify (group) some animals.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 9:00am
This week we used music staves and the glockenspiels to create our own music. We focused on using the notes C, D, E, G and A and making sure they were written on the staves accurately.
Date: 2nd Jun 2025 @ 10:58am
Last half term, we learned about different food types in DT. In addition, we looked at what chefs are required to do and what skills they need to be successful in their careers.
We then conducted market research and discovered what others would like on blinis (small pancakes). We designed small blinis for a party. On our last day before half term break, we followed recipes and made our blinis. The children used a variety of spreads, fruits, sauces and creams! They looked very tasty!
Date: 21st May 2025 @ 10:19am
Today, we explored patterns. To start the day we used sugar paper and pins to make wholes with our drawn on patterns. Afterwards, we looked at Surface Pattern Design artist Rachel Parker. She designs patterns for things such as bedding, bags, curtains and clothes. We used her pattern making skills to make our own continuous patterns, which our teachers then scanned into the computers so that we could use our computer skills to screenshot, copy and paste our original design to make it a continuous pattern. The results are fantastic!
Date: 12th May 2025 @ 1:54pm
This half term, we have Fit 2 Go from Blackpool FC Community Trust in supporting us with our healthy lifestyle and fitness learning. This week, we look at the names and functions of some of our bones and muscles, then we looked at how the blood pumps around our bodies. We even counted our own pulse.
VE Day - 80th Anniversary Celebrations
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 5:28pm
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 11:14am
So far this half term, Year 4 have learned how to recognise, recall and spell 12 different classroom items with their indefinite articles/determiners in French.
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 9:33pm
This week, we used our amazing oracy skills in our Maths lessons.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 8:13am
In today’s lesson, we recapped the Elements of Music PP, focusing on Tempo, tonality and instruments in the orchestra. Then, using the listening mats and stem sentences we listened and appraised - Train is A-Comin’.
Our focus questions were: How does it make you feel? What's the genre and style?
Where does this song fit with the world?
What time/era was the song made?
What’s the song about?
Instruments you can hear?
Afterwards, we discussed Harriet Tubman and started to learn to sing the song.
Date: 30th Apr 2025 @ 1:28pm
During Lent, the Year 4 children took part in a special project focused on almsgiving, raising both awareness and money for charity. The children were split into three groups: fundraisers, creators, and speakers. The fundraising team decided to sell sweet cones, thoughtfully setting suggested donation prices and designing stickers to promote their efforts. The awareness group worked hard to create a post for the school website and designed colourful posters to raise awareness about deafness and the important work of the National Deaf Children’s Society. Meanwhile, the speakers group prepared an engaging presentation for an assembly as part of Deaf Awareness Week.
Through their teamwork, creativity, and dedication, the children successfully raised £150 for the charity from their after school tuck shop.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:38am
This week, we typed up our hot writes of our Poem on a Theme. The theme was about rivers - linking to our Geography unit. Have a look at some of the amazing figurative language the children have used.
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:15pm
Year 4 completed art work based on the story 'The Dot' which was told to us in assembly.
The children used ideas from Kandinsky to form patterns focusing on line and colour.
The children then drew their portraits on larger circles and used one colour to show depth by using tint, tone and shade.
Year 4 - No Pen Morning - Maths
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:09pm
Yer 4, used cuisenaire rods for a no-pen morning in maths. It was a a great way to encourage hands-on, visual learning. Pupils explored fractions. They were given different tasks such as identifying fractions and finding what parts make up wholes.
