Year 4 – Gold and Saffron
Oct 24 2025
Well done everyone for making it to the end of the half term! We have been busy this week in English researching and preparing for a debate about whether the curse of Tutankhamun’s tomb was real or not. We were so proud of the way the classes conducted themselves when holding the debate; they listened …
Oct 17 2025
What a fantastic day we had at the British Museum! We found out about the role of an archaeologist in Egypt and how they excavate a site, making sure they keep all their finds organised and safe. We were able to handle some replica artefacts and found out what they were and what they were …
Oct 10 2025
This week we have been using show not tell as a descriptive techniques to show a reader how someone is feeling, rather than telling the reader the emotion. We have thought about how the body reacts when different emotions are expressed, for example – ‘his heart pounded’ and ‘chills ran down the back of his …
Oct 03 2025
This week we have been working really hard on our non-chronological reports about Ancient Egyptian lifestyles. Following on from our research last week, we have put together our own paragraphs on topics such as beliefs, sport and pets. We used research questions as our subheadings and tried to use precise language. In maths, we have …
Sep 26 2025
This week we have enjoyed a workshop for our Digital Innovation Week. Year 4 used Intelino trains which can be programmed to follow commands using different coloured tiles. They had to work out what commands different combinations of coloured tiles could do before creating a series of different commands around a track which would speed …
Sep 19 2025
This week we have been busy writing our descriptive letters about the discovery of an ancient Egyptian artefact. Everyone has worked really hard to include adjectives and prepositions to describe their artefact. In maths we have been working on estimating numbers on a number line and rounding to the nearest 10. We have set up …
Sep 12 2025
Welcome back to a new school year! It has been lovely to see Saffron and Gold classes settle down so well to their new environments and routines and also getting to know each other. Welcome also to our new families. We hope you will find the blog useful in finding out what has been happening …
Jul 18 2025
Wow! We can’t believe that we have come to the end of another year! We are so proud of what Year 4 have achieved. They have made improvements in not only work but in confidence and resilience too and we want to thank you for all your support. We are sure they will continue to …
Jun 27 2025
We’ve come to the end of another busy week here in Year 4, but we’ve had a spectacular finish with our careers day. Thank you so much to our parent volunteers Alexey and Neil for sharing some incredible examples of what their careers in data science and gaming quality management look like, we were all …
Jun 20 2025
This week Year 4 have super busy finishing their wonderful art work for the art exhibition which will be held on Open Evening. They can’t wait to show you what they’ve done – small hint – it’s all fitting together nicely! We had a lovely morning at the field today using classification keys, which we …
