Year 4 – Gold and Saffron
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 …
Feb 28 2025
Welcome back to a new half term! We have had a busy start to the term. Please be aware that the PE sessions have reverted back to their original time slots – Saffron – Wednesday and Friday, Gold – Monday and Wednesday. We have had a busy start to the term, starting a number of …
Feb 14 2025
Well done to Gold class this morning for a fantastic assembly, we all had a great time seeing who could get their questions right in ‘Year 4 Genius’, everyone was so proud! Saffron class have finally finished their ice creams today and they look very tasty! The finishing touches have involved colourful ‘sprinkles’, which really …
Feb 07 2025
Congratulations to Saffron Class for a brilliant assembly this morning based on our geography learning – a field trip to Malham in North Yorkshire. All the children spoke brilliantly and sang a fantastic rendition of ‘On Ilkley Moor Baht ‘at. ‘(On Ilkley Moor without a hat). They also shared their learning in science, art and …
Jan 31 2025
This week’s highlight was a visit from Mr Crick who brought in a Van de Graaff generator to show us how electricity works. We learnt that protons and electrons don’t like each other and repel away. We were able to watch lightning as electrons try to escape to earth as quickly as possible! We also …
Jan 24 2025
This week we have finished our emotive poems in English. Year 4 have worked really hard to try and choose the best vocabulary to show emotion as well as using figurative language such as personification, similes and metaphors to show the plight of the animals in the zoo. Some people have added other poetic devices …
Jan 17 2025
This week we have been experimenting with sound… by making lots of it! We learnt that sound is a vibration and this was made visible by tapping a tuning fork and placing it in water, so we could see the vibrations. We noticed how sounds are made on drums, using rainsticks, chime bars and triangles …
Jan 10 2025
Welcome Back and Happy New Year! We have a busy term planned ahead with lots of exciting new topics. We have started this week with our new sounds topic in Science, thinking about what sounds are around us all the time and how they are created through vibrations. We listened to sounds inside and outside …
Dec 13 2024
This week started off with a DT extravaganza. We were knee deep in cardboard, cellophane, double sided sticky tape and electrical components but the children worked really hard and all of them managed to make a working light. We had lots of different designs including flowers, footballs and shells as well as lights for different …
Dec 06 2024
This week we have been working on creating a character description for a goblin, who we met through the poem ‘Overheard on a Saltmarsh’ by Harold Monro. He is a particularly gruesome, putrid character with fetid breath and blood-shot eyes! These are some of the words we have been using to describe this vile creature. …