Year 4 – Gold and Saffron
Jun 13 2025
This week Year 4 have been busy researching about the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) as it has featured within our English text ‘The Ever Changing Earth’. We are turning our research into an explanation text for one of the characters from the book. We have planned our research in to 4 sections to explain what …
Jun 06 2025
Welcome back to our final half term of the year. We hope you all enjoyed the half term break. We have been straight back into things here this week. We have been busy in maths, making sure our times tables were polished and we are very proud of all the children for how hard they …
May 23 2025
What a fantastic Sports Day this afternoon. It was lovely to see all the children working well as a team and having fun. There were lots of smiles and it was a brilliant afternoon. Well done everyone! Year 4 have been working hard on equivalent fractions this week, drawing bar models to show how fractions …
May 09 2025
One of this week’s highlights was our outdoor VE Day activities yesterday. It was lovely to see everyone playing games which would have been played in 1945. Some of the activities were making and flying paper planes, pick up sticks, battleships and learning to play hopscotch. I know some of them enjoyed playing hopscotch during …
May 02 2025
The highlight of this week has been our egg experiment in Science. We were using the eggs as the shells act in a similar way to our teeth when left in different liquids. We left the eggs overnight in either water, cola, orange juice and vinegar to see what effect they would have. Fortunately, we …
Apr 25 2025
What a lovely start to the term we have had! The sun has been shining and Year 4 have been making very good use of the new playground features. They have loved playing with the small parts which have been provided such as planks, crates, cable reels and mats. We have seen surfing, seesaws, slides, …
Apr 04 2025
What a lovely week of weather we have had this last week! I hope everyone has been enjoying the sunshine! We have been hard at work finishing our water cycle work, by writing an informal report, which we have turned into videos to help teach other children about the processes of the water cycle. We …
Mar 28 2025
This week Saffron Class have enjoyed making their omelettes. They added ingredients from a choice of bacon, ham, chicken, cheese, peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms and basil. They had fun making them and even more eating them! They were very proud of their achievements and a special mention has to go to Eligh and Rosie who have …
Mar 21 2025
This week we have been working on finishing our Viking adventure stories. Everyone has been trying really hard to up-level their vocabulary and description of places and characters in their stories. We have also learnt how to use speech punctuation correctly to add meaningful dialogue in our work. We have been focussing on decimals in …
Mar 14 2025
It has been another busy week this week. We have been busy preparing and planning for our Viking adventure story, trying to make really good choices with our vocabulary and thinking about whether it is an adjective we would usually use or could it be upleveled to another. In Maths we have completed our unit …
