Welcome to Year Four

Teacher: Miss Morris

TA: Mrs Singh

Welcome to the Year 4 class page!

Here you will find regular updates, links to useful websites and examples of what we have been learning in class. This half term, our topic is Roman Britain. 

Please see the following important information: 

• PE will take place on Wednesdays this half term. Please ensure that children bring the correct PE kit each week in line with the school's uniform policy. 
• This year, the children will be completing the statutory multiplication assessment. To support this, regular practice on TT Rockstars at home is strongly encouraged.

Our Learning

Year 4 explored thankfulness in RSE. We started by looking at appropriate and inappropriate behaviours in different scenarios and how if those children would have used resilience the situations could have been different. Then we discussed that being resilient also means that, whatever is going on for us, we can look for opportunities to be thankful. We made mindmaps of all the things we are thankful for. 

Today we had a managing feelings talk with the school nurse. First, we looked at different emojis and discussed how they are feeling and what we feel like physically when we are feeling that feeling such as angry or sad. Then. we looked at different pictures and discussed what might have happened and how the people in the pictures or feeling. Next, we discussed our feelings in terms of a stress bucket and what happens when that bucket is full and what might happen if that bucket overflows. Finally, we discussed different ways and strategies of managing our feelings. 

Autumn 2

Year 4 2024/ 2025

Autumn 2

Year 4 went on a school trip to the local museum where they learnt more about the Romans and the Romans in Britain. This has helped enrich current topic learning and give insight into the next history topic. Whilst on the trip Year 4 engaged in a workshop about the Romans, had a look around the museum and even handled Roman artifacts over 2000 years old!

Today, Year 4 took part in collective worship around the themes of kindness and forgiveness.

As part of our Geography fieldwork, Year 4 visited Doncaster City Centre to look at building use and make sketches in order to compare with New York in our Geography topic of USA

As part of our Sound topic, we have been investigating different materials and how much they absorb sound, as well as how we can change the volume and pitch of a sound and the impact distance has on a sound.

In RSE, Year 4 have been looking at how to Keep Safe. As part of our learning, we looked at the importance of first aid and acted out different scenarios. 

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Year 4 created a positivity journal with things they were proud of as well as inspirational quotes.

To celebrate the Coronation, we learnt about what the ceremony involves before creating invitations for the event.

In Geography, Year 4 have been studying the Amazon as our topic. We have started this topic by looking at the human and physical geography of South America, before locating the world's rainforests and looking at the different layers within the rainforest. 

For Aspirations week, we looked at what we would like to be when we are older. Year 4 created adverts for jobs using persuasive language which we have been focusing on in Literacy. To end the week we were joined by Leon Baptiste, a Commonwealth Gold Medalist sprinter who put us through our paces in a fitness session. 

In RSE we have been looking at personal relationships and part of that is what to do if we are being bullied and what it feels like to be bullied. We used drama to act out potential scenarios before discussing what the people being bullied should do.

As part of our RE topic, Year 4 have debated whether Jesus was right to say we should love our enemies. The class split into two and came back together at the end to present their findings. 

As part of our iAnimate topic we have been looking at creating animations. Firstly through flip books and then using apps on the computers. 

Year 4 split into six different groups each representing someone who had an interest in whether deforestation should be stopped or not We had people arguing for deforestation from McDonalds, builders and miners. And we had people arguing against deforestation from climate activists, environmentalists and the traditional owners of the land.  

For our multi-faith week, Year 4 looked at the Islam and the Qur'an. We looked at what the book means to Muslims and also how they use a subha to remember the 99 names for Alllah.

In Spanish, children have been looking at the story of Goldilocks. We listened to the story before concentrating on the key words. From this we ordered the key parts of the stories in Spanish and applied this to create our own storyboards. 

As part of our topic, Year 4 used role play to imagine what it would be like to be part of a new community and what we could do to help these people. 

Father Henry came in to visit our Year 4, 5 and 6 children with a relic from St Bernadette. He explained what the relic was and why they are important. He then answered any questions that children had about their faith. 

Thank you to Ann from CAFOD who came in to talk to us about Catholic Social Teaching. We looked at different values and thought about how we could show these in our lives. We also looked at some of the work that CAFOD does in different countries around the world following in the word of Jesus.

For enterprise week, Year 4 have been designing and making Christmas bouqets.

In computing, Year 4 have been using iProgram to investigate how programming works. 

Year 4 explored the Gospel story of Jesus healing Jairus’ daughter. The story was repeated in various ways, and through times of discussion, imaginative reflection and creative response, the children learnt that they are created by God out of love and for love: they were designed for this purpose, which should inform how they live. The class created storyboards to show the sequencing of the story of Jairus' daughter.