Year 4 – Gold and Saffron
Mar 20 2026
We have had another fantastic, busy week in school and we ended with an exciting, engaging and educational Viking Day! Leif Erikson invaded our assembly and told us the story of Beowolf. He showed us his collection of Viking drinking horns, two-handed spears, swords and helmets. We all got the chance to learn that the …
Mar 13 2026
You may have noticed outside our classrooms some strange looking jars! Year 4 are currently conducting an experiment (eggsperiment!) using … you’ve guessed it eggs! They are a useful replacement for eggs. We have put them in different liquids to see what happens, which we can relate back to sugary and acidic foods and how …
Mar 06 2026
The highlight of this week was yesterday’s World Book Day. We had some wonderful costumes in Year 4 as well as some cosy looking outfits for reading. Year 4 expertly drew their favourite book covers, which will be going on display in the library and then completed a ‘Draw-along’ with the illustrator Chris Riddell, drawing …
Feb 27 2026
A highlight of this week was the transformation of Gold and Saffron classrooms into a Gurdwara and then inviting the Year 3 children to have a tour. The Year 4s were the perfect hosts, showing the Y3s around, making sure they told them about the significance of each room for Sikh people. Everybody took off …
Feb 13 2026
This week we have had 2 themes – Safer Internet Day and Children’s Mental Health Week. We have focussed on activities for both themes in assemblies and in lessons. Children’s Mental Health Week asked us all to consider where we belong. We thought about our families, school groups and communities that we all belong to …
Feb 06 2026
Congratulations to Gold Class today for a fantastic class assembly this morning. Your singing was amazing and you all spoke your words beautifully and clearly. You should be very proud of yourselves. This week we have been writing our letters of complaint to the zoo about their treatment of the animals. The children have been …
Jan 30 2026
Well done to Saffron Class for their fantastic assembly this morning. Everyone had learnt their lines, sang with gusto and spoke clearly. Gold class will be doing their assembly next week. In English we have been looking at a letter of complaint to send to the appalling zoo in Anthony Browne’s book. We have been …
Jan 23 2026
We have had a very successful week in writing emotive, free verse poems about the zoo animals. We have worked really hard to include many techniques including emotive language, personification, similes, metaphors and strong vocabulary. Some of our poems are real tear jerkers! In maths we have started a unit on data and have created …
Jan 16 2026
This week we have writing examples of similes and personification and experimenting with the structure of a free verse poem about the animals from the book Zoo. We hope they will help to make our poems more emotive when we write them next week. In maths we have been learning about different measures and how …
Jan 09 2026
Welcome back! Happy New Year to you all, we hope you all had a lovely break. The children have been settling in well after the holidays and we have been busy starting new topics and units. In English, we are using the book Zoo by Anthony Browne as a stimulus to eventually write some emotive …
