Wow! The spring term already! This term our topic is 'Passport to Europe' and we will be exploring different links to European countries and the Anglo Saxons. In Maths, we will continue to build our fluency of our times tables and explore perimeter, fractions and decimals. In English, we will be writing our own adventure story, portal story and a mythical creature poem. Please keep practicing your times tables, spelling and handwriting at home and read with an adult. 

Welcome back to a brand new school year and the beginning of Year 4! We are going to have lots of fun learning new things this year together with our first topic all about Ancient Greece. In English, we will be writing for a range of genres and learning our model text with actions, remember to show your family at home. In maths, we will develop our number knowledge around place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will continue to learn our times tables and improve our speed recalling them in preparation for the Multiplication Tables Check in June. Please keep reading at home and completing any homework tasks. 

Let's have a great first term! 

Mrs McIntyre and Ms Lobosco 

Year 4 Gallery 2025-2026 

In art this term, we have been learning about pointillism and looking at the French artist Georges Seurat. As our final art piece we used this technique to paint a picture of the Naze Tower. 

To start off our new class topic 'Passport to Europe' we looked at artwork by French artist Claude Monet and used his 'Water Lilies' collection to inspire our water colour paintings. 

Year 4 won the class attendance this term so got to have a class party with music, games and snacks! We had a great time!  

We wrote some instructions for “How to steal Christmas” in the style of the Grinch. 

For design and technology, we have been learning to cross stitch. We made a cross stich of a Christmas Tree. 

We’ve received some lovely homework this term. 

This is our Poppy artwork we created to show respect for those who fought for us on Remembrance Day. This is displayed in a window at the front of the school building - please go and look at it with your child. 

In science this term, we have been learning about Solids, liquids and gases. We identified different items that fit into each state but during our practical lesson we made Oobleck which we found didn't fit into one category! It is known as a 'Non-Newtonian fluid', which means sometimes it acts as a solid and sometimes as a liquid. 

In art, we have been using paper mache to create a Greek Vase model in pairs. We are going to then paint them with a Greek design. 
 

In English, we have been learning the story of the ‘The Wild Girl’ for our model text. We acted out parts of the story in groups.