Year4

3 weeks ago

Year 4 – What a busy spring term!

We have had an extremely busy spring term. All the way back in the spring term the children started learning about the Vikings where we started by making our very viking boats. The children were very surprised as they did not have horned helmets! We ended the unit making a leaflet about ‘The Truth about The Vikings.’

Retrival time
Ask your children the following questions to see what they can remember?
1. Where did the Vikings Orginally come from?
2. What do you call a Viking boat?
3. Why did the Vikings invade Lindisfarne?
4. After the struggle, the Vikings were given land. What was it called?

We were then lucky to use all this knowledge at the start of Spring 2, when we had a hugely successful residential to Ufton Court!

The children were amazing in our Easter Production of ‘The Best is Yet to Come.’ We very very proud of all the children.

The actors and actresses learnt their words so well, a special mention to the children who had to learn more words just 10 minutes before our final show, no-one would of know! The dancers who created our crucifixion dance and especially our backstage, lighting and sound technicians. Every child in Year 4 played an important role!

Our Spring 2 topic was all about Simba’s UK Road Trip. Our kahoot tested our previous geography knowledge and then introduced our new unit.

During this unit we have learnt about population distribution in the UK, the mountains in the UK, rivers in Uk and the counties in the UK. We have enjoyed using digi maps to search for the answers to questions that have been posed and finding out more about Simba’s Road Trip.

Retrival time
Use these questions to test your child’s knowledge:
1. What UK major cities can you remember?
2. Which areas have high population?
3. Which areas have low population?
4. Where does a river flow the fastest?
5. Which bodies of water surround the UK?

We have ended our unit, with some fabulous art work. In art, we have been working on printing. The children had to choose a UK landmark and then make a tile for printing. They then completed the background print and repeated this on their paper, we had to wait a day for this to dry before we could build upon our printing. The next step was to cut out sections of our blocks and re print a different colour on top.

Look at our amazing work!!

Can you guess the locations that Simba visited in our art work?

We hope you and your children have a lovely Easter break, it is well deserved after such a busy term!

Happy Easter!

Year 4 Team

March 1, 2024

Year 4 – Update

What an incredibly busy start we have had to the second half of the spring term. We would like to start by saying how proud we were of the children whilst on our residential to Ufton Court. They were well behaved and learnt so much from the staff and activties. I think the quote of the residential was from Tina! See picture below!

On our return to school last Thursday, we quickly got onto our new project for this term Simba’s UK Road Trip. We started this in mixed teams of 3 and a geography knowledge kahoot. Alex was brave enough to take on all the group and came out as our Geography KING!

The children then took part in auditions and made our job very tricky to decide on characters for our Easter Production. We look forward to getting into this next week. The children can find the songs to learn in their google classroom.

Please can you upload any pictures of the Agent’s of Change challenge we set the children over half term.

Look Mrs Boyle, my bow is as big as my smile here at Ufton Court.

February 21, 2024

Proud Year 4 Teachers!

We just wanted to add a little post to say a huge WELL DONE to the children! They represented our school so brilliant and made the last three days a huge success! The Ufton Court staff were IMPRESSED with the children’s viking and saxon knowledge. Even though today brought a little rain and lots of MUD – sorry! They enjoyed our final activity – a battle between the Saxons and Vikings.

We will upload some more photos (now we have good internet) over the next week or so, so you can see just how much fun we all had!

I am sure they are tired but please reasure them that tomorrow will be a lovely calm day, introducing our new topic and also some auditions for our upcoming Easter performance! After seeing some of the children’s acting in the Crime and Punishment activity, we know that this is going to be a very tricky job chosing our cast!

The teachers are looking forward to being refreshed tomorrow morning and seeing your wonderful children in class!

November 11, 2023

Year 4 – Forest School Update

The children have loved the last two weeks at Forest School! This week they enjoyed making a Christmas tree. They started by sawing their base from a larger branch before adding a fir cone and decorating with pom-poms. They have also enjoyed the swing, hammock and mud pit! We look forward to next week’s activity!

November 4, 2023

Year 4 – Raging Rivers Hook

The children have settled back into this half term beautifully and enjoyed our hook lesson on M0nday where we set them the challenge of making a river in a tray to start off our new Raging Rivers project.

The children made the riverbed shape out of foil, then went outside to see what we could find to make the landscape around the river. They then added water to our river and watched it flow down the riverbed.

Our first geography lesson then focussed on ‘What are the features and processes of a river?’ We started by identifying the features including, river, mountains, mountain tops and land around the river.

After this we learnt that a river is divided into three main sections, the upper course, middle course and lower course. Can your child tell you which sections these are and what happens at each section.

We went on to learn about river meanders. During this lesson the children learnt that:
– All rivers have a source, mouth, upper course, middle course, lower course.
– All rivers have erosion and transportation.
– All rivers have meanders.
– The size of river features can be different.

What can you child tell you about their learning so far?

Upcoming dates for Year 4:

Forest School:

Book Fair – Thursday 9th November
Carol Service – 11th December 2pm / 12th December 6.30pm / 13th December 10am
Christmas Lunch – 14th December

Our knowledge organiser and topic web can be found here:

Year 4 Raging Rivers Curriculum Information

Year 4 Raging Rivers Geography Knowledge Organiser

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