Year 4 2025 - 2026

Welcome to Year 4!

Class Teacher: Mrs Ellison

Teaching assistants: Miss Heeley

Lunch time supervisors: Mrs Gannon

Things you need to know:

Our PE days will be on Monday and Thursday. During the Autumn term, children in Year 4 attend swimming lessons on a Monday which counts towards one of our PE lessons. 

Homework will be sent out on Friday and is due in the following Friday. Homework will usually involve maths and spelling. Children are expected to read three times a week and their reading journals should be signed by an adult to show this.  

Why not take a look at some of the exciting opportunities that take place in our class...

Clonter Theatre trip

Year 4 enjoyed a trip to the Clonter Theatre where they enjoyed engaging in set design. The children had to work as part of a team to create a stage design based on a theme such as space, winter wonderland or a jungle.They then enjoyed exploring different lighting effects to create different atmospheres. Take a peak at some of our final designs...

Afterwards, the children were given the opportunity to join in with a workshop that allowed them to explore different styles of operatics. They learnt some fun vocal warm ups and body warm ups to help towards a good singing performance. Before heading back to school, the children were treated to a show called 'The Funny Opera'. They were able to join in with the song 'Consider yourself' from the play Oliver Twist. 

Science in Year 4

Electricity

We develop our problem solving skills and scientific vocabulary when exploring electricity and building circuits...

Sound

During this unit, we explore pitch, tempo and volume. We learn how to manipulate sound in order to create different effects. We set up investigations to measure the volume in decibels along the school corridor. One child stood at one end of the corridor with a large drum whist other chidren in their pairs measured the decibels from different distances. We then gathered our data and created a graph to show the correlation between volume and distance away from the sound soure. 

Living Things

This unit allowed us to explore the environment around us as we are asked to identify and classify living things in the school grounds. We learn how to group animals into their animal kingdoms and understand different characteristics of each animal kingdom. Later we conduct research into the animals that live on the Shetland Isles and the Channnel Isle and try to understand why these animals are specially adapted to live in these different climates. 

The Digestive System

WARNING: This unit is not for the faint-hearted. We enjoyed exploring the process of the digestive system by making a banana sandwich and recreating how the body would digest it...

Art in Year 4

We love to express ourselves creatively in Year 4. To kick start our year we are introduced to the artisit L.S. Lowry. We were able to develop our perspective drawing skills which isn't an easy technique to master. After much perseverance we were able to create some beautiful landscape drawings...

Throughout the year, we are given plenty of opportunity to dvelop our artistic skills through diferent mediums. We enjoy linking our artwork to cutural days. Take a peek at some of the opportunities that we have been given...

Here are some of our finished pieces...

RE in Year 4

We have enjoyed learning about many diferent religions this year. Often through creative activities or team building tasks. We especially enjoyed talking about the true meaning of Christmas. We were asked the question 'Is it better to give or is it better to recieve?' To help us explore this we made each other a Secret Santa gift and enjoyed giving and unwrapping our gifts to each other. We had some wonderful discussions about the feelings associated with giving and recieving gifts. 

We also enjoyed Inter- faith week where we embraced the theme 'the beautiful colours of faith'. Our class were given the religion of Sikhiskm to focus on. We thought about the festival Hola Mohalla and created some beautiful artwork to reflect the traditions of this celebration. In the afternoon, we enjoyed some physical tam games as we know that it is custome during Hola Mohalla for the Sikh community to host their own sports day...