Year 4

Year 4 Homework Blog

• Year 4’s Week 4! (25.11.21)
  It has been an unusually short week! In Maths, we assessed our prior learning of place value, addition and subtraction, and perimeters. I have to say that Year 4 has stored many mathematical concepts in their long-term memory! Well done. In Literacy, we planned our big write which is a sequel to our model text ‘The Biscuit Bear’. In preparation for that, we learned how to use inverted commas. In Science, we are learning about ‘Sound’, and this week we looked into the relationship between volume and the strength of the sound wave. IN Geography, we took a mental tour ...
• Year 4’s Week 3! (19.11.21)
  Another exciting week has passed and Year 4 has done amazingly again. As usual, this week was full of exciting learning. We started our new Literacy unit based on a marvellous book, ‘The Biscuit Bear’. We are targeting our young audience this time. Hence, we are learning all those grammatical skills which would help us engage our young readers. In Maths, we are learning multiplication and division and its useful application in real life context. Science has been very LOUD as we learnt about pitch and how it is impacted by the frequency of sound waves. We used a number ...
• Year 4’s Week 2! (12.11.21)
  What a productive week! Year 4 has been extremely busy this week in a number of great things. Using our exceptional persuasive skills, we wrote two speeches to convince people about the dark. In Maths, we learned about perimeters and investigated how to calculate perimeter of rectilinear shapes with missing measurements. In Science, we practically experienced how sound travels through different states of matter. It was too much fun, especially when sound travels through solids! You may find us calling our family members’ names in French because that is what we are learning about. In geography, we located different countries ...
• Year 4’s Spooky Week! (22.10.21)
  This week has been exceptionally spooky in Year 4 as they are gearing up to say hello to Halloween! Despite the mysterious spookiness, all the children worked exceptionally hard. We consolidated the addition and subtraction of 4 digit numbers using a number of efficient strategies. In Literacy, we prepared ourselves to include fronted adverbials in our next big write. During this week, we mainly focussed on Art and Design where we learned and polished sculpting skills. Being inspired by our learning of the ancient Egyptians, we created magnificent sculptures. The harvest assembly was brilliant as we conquered the new technological ...
• Year 4’s Week 7! (15.10.21)
  What an amazing week. Year 4 has continued to impress everyone in the school with their brilliant work. We have completed our science unit of ‘States of Matter’ and to celebrate our work and consolidate our understanding, we created beautiful 3D posters of the Water Cycle! In Literacy, we produced magnificent handwriting to publish our adventure stories based on ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’. We also started our new literacy unit based on ‘ The King Who Banned the Dark’ and are learning about different persuasion techniques in writing. In Maths, we continued to learn 4-digit addition and subtraction using ...
• It’s Getting Chilly (01.10.21)
  It has been some time since summer is over, however, we truly felt it this week! It is expected to be cold and wet till next week so bundle up well Year 4. We have had another fantastic week. We have started our new Literacy unit, ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’ and conducted a very intense discussion where we asked relevant questions to enhance our knowledge. In Maths, we’ve learned a number of things from comparing 4 digit numbers to rounding them to nearest 1000. Since it is happening a lot around us, considering our Science unit of ‘States of ...
• Year 4’s Week 4! (24.09.21)
  We had another amazing week! Thanks to all the children who worked incredibly hard and produced high-quality work! In Literacy, we planned our narrative based on our amazing whole school unit called ‘And tango makes three!’. The whole class worked really hard to include a variety of punctuation and grammar tools to enhance their stories. In Maths, we started off with Roman Numeral and finished our week by comparing four-digit numbers. It was a delight to see the majority of the children taking up ‘going deeper’ challenges! Putting our historian hats on, we landed in Egypt and learned hieroglyphs. We ...
• Jam-Packed Week for Year 4 What a fantastic jam-packed week! We had loads going on in Year 4. This week we compared our modern day lifestyle with that of ancient Egyptians. We mainly focused on what we have learnt from the achievements of previous civilisations. In Maths, we learnt numbers to ten thousands and used a number line to consolidate our number sense. We classified many different objects into different states of matter in Science, focussing specifically on gases. In Literacy, we worked really hard to use a variety of conjunctions in a formal report writing where we informed our readers ...
• Welcome Back Year 4!
  Welcome Back Year 4! What a lovely start to the year! I hope you all had a lovely holiday. It has been fantastic to see you all, full of energy and eager to learn. This week we spent a good amount of time getting to know each other and making sure that we are all clear about the expectations. I have to say that I am very pleased with the high standards of etiquettes year 4 has shown, whether it is making their way sensibly and quietly to the assembly or getting on with their work. I enjoyed all the brilliant ...
• Welcome Back – 16th April
  What a brilliant start to the summer term! Year 4 have been working really hard in learning about living things and their habitats. We solved some very interesting riddles to identify various living organisms and then matched them with their suitable habitat! We have also started our programming unit in computer and learnt about simulations and abstractions and why they are useful in computer programming. In Geography, we learnt about different countries in the United Kingdom and some key geographical facts including total population and average life expectancy. We all enjoyed kwik cricket in the field! I hope you have ...