Year Four
Welcome to Year 4 2024-25
Welcome to the Year 4 class page! My name is Mr Parsons and I will be teaching Year 4 this year with Miss Hill working alongside me. Please keep visiting this page for regular updates and information on learning and events etc.
Just to let you all know we have had a great start to the new year (check out some of the photographs below!)The children have settled in really well and I have been impressed by everyone's work ethic and great behaviour. I know we are going to have a great year!
Key Information
P.E kit needs to be in school on Mondays and Thursdays.
Homework will be given out on Fridays and will need to be returned by the following Friday.
Please read your reading books every night!
Year 4 is an important year for multiplication/times tables learning. There is a national statutory times table check for all year 4 pupils in June. Please make sure you go on times table rockstars and complete any multiplication homework. More details will be given on the multiplication check nearer the time
Big Picture - Find out more about our learning this half term
Here are some excellent online times table programmes that can also be used as an app...
https://ttrockstars.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/10-minutes-a-day-times-tables/id775904110?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/times-tables-quiz-multiplication-trainer/id441001315?mt=8
June 2025- As part of our topic on French food, year 4 with Mrs Gaynor opened a French cafe. To order the food you wanted, you had to speak in French!
May 2025- We visited Ball Grove as part of our geography topic and completed some artwork inspired by the French impressionist's method to work 'en plein air'.
May 2025- R.E- We created our own prayers in our own style to display on our R.E. working wall. Here are some of the prayers we came up with!
May 2025- Maths-We played matching pairs to help secure our knowledge of tenths as decimals
May 2025- We have started reading a new text in english called Weslandia by Paul Fleischman- To launch this text, we went outside to build shelters which is a theme that runs through the text
April 2025- Earth Week- We went outside to create 3D shape using the natural resources around us
April 2025- Design and Technology- Year 4 have been working very hard this half term designing and creating slingshot cars
March 2025- We visited Ribchester Roman Museum- We learnt all about the history of the Roman fort at Ribchester, tried on some armour, looked at artefacts and visited the ruin of the Roman Bath. We had a great day!!
March 2025- In our history lesson we worked as a team to create a class timeline of the life of Boudica
February 2025- In our new science topic we have been thinking about solids, liquids and gases- we looked at some different materials and grouped them
January 2025- In our science lesson we investigated how sound travels. The children had to turn around when they heard the sound of the drum whilst I gradually moved further away
January 2025- We found out how sounds are created in our science lesson!
January 2025- We had a session clapping rhythms with our music teacher
January 2025- We completed our first Monday morning P.E lesson of 2025! We showed some great Boccia skills!
November 2024- We have been using cocktail sticks and marshmallows to practice making stable structures as part of our pavillions topic
October 2024- Year 4 have been having great fun den building during OPAL play!
September 2024- Year 4 visited Year 1 today to read them the picture books we have created in english. Both classes really enjoyed it!
September 2024- Science- We made a mess whilst representing how the digestive system works!
September 2024- English- We worked in groups to plan recitals of performance poetry
September 2024- Maths- We have been using place value counters to support our maths learning!
September 2024- Here are some photos from a fantastic first week back in school!
