Year 4
Welcome to Year 4. Please check here for latest updates. We hope that we can build many memories before the children move to Year 5.
Classes.
Miss Young is teaching Canberra class (Monday-Thursday) and Mrs Dawson is teaching Canberra class on a Friday.
Mrs Nijhus is teaching New Delhi.
Welcome to year 4! We look forward to a fun year together.
Meeting with parents in transition week
Click here for the PowerPoint shown at the meeting
Autumn Term Curriculum Newsletter to parents 2023/2024
Click here for the Autumn newsletter
Click here for our timetable
Spring Term Curriculum Newsletter to parents 2023/2024
Click here for the Spring newsletter
Click here for our Spring timetable
Summer Term Curriculum Newsletter to parents 2023/2024
Click here for the Summer newsletter
Click here for the Summer timetable
Spring Term
Welcome back year 4!
We began our term with lots of exciting activities based around amusement. The children investigated how they hear sound and made their lego ferris wheels spin on lego WEDO.
Amusement
The children enjoyed learning about the circus and its founder: Phillip Astley. Whilst he did not call it a circus himself, he came up with idea of putting different talent together to create a show. The children wrote a biography about Philip Asltley.
We then used our biography skills to write about our fictional character Wild Boy.
Have a look at the examples below.
We then enjoyed the story: Buddy's rainforest adventure.
The children first made orangutans, then looked at the countries orangutans come from. 
Have a go at the Powerpoint Quiz to see what they know!
The children enjoyed acting out the story and thinking about how the main character feels at different stages of the story.
They wrote persuasive letters to the forestry commission to put an end to deforestation.
Year 4 enjoyed Science. We have looked at the states of matter: Solids, liquids and gases, the water cycle and sound.
The children made musical instruments, string telephones, carbon dioxide (teacher lead) and experimented with fizzy drinks!
Autumn Term
Year 4 had a terrifying start to the year because a dragon had broken into the classroom to lay its eggs!
We had to decode a letter in Viking Runes to find out what we needed to do.
The children decoded the letter and were able to work out why the eggs were there and what they had to do.
On the Friday of the first week, the children got to meet Brent, the dragon whose eggs they had cared for.
In the second week, we acted out the scene from 'How to Train a Dragon' when the characters entered the dragon's cave.
Butser farm
Year 4 went on a trip to Butser farm. Here we learnt about the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings. We were archaeologists and sewers!
The children also enjoyed writing with grass quills and carving into chalk.
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Residential information
Thank you so much for the support for the residential.
Here is the presentation powerpoint
Here is the letter about the trip
Here is the link to the Ufton Court parent page.
https://www.uftoncourt.org.uk/parent-s-hub
If you have any questions about the trip, please speak to a member of the year 4 team.
Extra activities
if you would like to do some more work, please see below.
You can log on to TTRockstars and test your times tables knowledge
Have a go at today's Wordle https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Extra word challenge - Can you work out four Wordles at once! https://www.quordle.com/
Geography- can you work out the country in today's Globle challenge? https://globle-game.com/
Can you guess the country based on the shape: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
E-safety
