Year 4 – Gold and Saffron
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 …
Dec 19 2025
Our last week of the Autumn term has been spent in a very creative way. We completed our adventure stories based on the book Journey and we are very proud of Year 4 in how they worked, the content of their stories and the inventiveness of their endings. They will look forward to showing you …
Dec 12 2025
This week, Year 4 have started to write their adventure stories based on the book Journey. We are so proud of how they have worked on them. They have remembered to use all the techniques we have been talking about to write exciting stories based on the journey of the girl with the magic pen. …
Nov 28 2025
This week’s highlight was a visit from Mr Crick, who brought his Van de Graaff generator to show Year 4 the effects of electricity. He used it to make his hair stand on end and explained how lightning can strike Earth. It was fun to watch flying pie plates and packing peanuts! In science we …
Nov 21 2025
What a busy week, Year 4! This week in English, we have seen spectacular performances of The Jabberwocky and written our own versions of the classic poem. In Maths, we continue to work on our times tables and we have been using our understanding of multiplication to learn about one-to-one and one-to-many correspondence. Gold Class …
Nov 14 2025
This week we have observing Anti-Bullying week through our assemblies and activities in the classroom. We learnt about what bullying is, as a repeated act, with an imbalance of power in person or online and thought about what we should do if it happens. We watched a BBC Live assembly and thought about how we …
Nov 07 2025
We hope you all had a lovely half term. It has been a busy first week back. We have been busy exploring the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. We have enjoyed looking at the nonsense words and actually trying to make sense of them. There have been a lot of really imaginative ideas. We liked …
