Welcome to Year Four

Staff team: Mr Duckmanton, Mrs Willacy, Mrs Smith, Mrs Wood and Mrs North

This page will contain class newsletters, photos of interesting activities and useful links.

PE Days: Monday (swimming) and Thursday

Iyla took her Anglo-Saxon tools into well done assembly to explain how people used to make art work. JJ and Richmond were also rewarded for achieving 25/25 in their multiplication test check. Well done.

Lincoln received a bronze always person award 

Science week saw us assisting Mr Jukes with a real life school problem. The school drains regularly become blocked. What can we flush down the toilet? Which toilet rolls break up easily? Can we flush wet wipes?

Harlie and Priya shared their findings in well done assembly. Now we need to make sure everyone follows our findings.

Massoud received our first gold always person award. Well done!

Well done assembly at the end of book week saw Sienna share her story writing for great effort, Hudson for his imagination and Leo for his presentation. Leo also got a silver always person award.

A lovely first week back after the term break. Two new starters Zara and Tyler started really well and received a certificate in well done assembly. Devlin received a silver always person award.

Christabel won our half term reading raffle. Well done.

Paired reading. We did a great job reading with Nursery and Reception.

After a difficult first week with snow, we had a great week- focussing on winter art. We learned a lot of different techniques when using chalk pastels. We then produced images of the Northern Lights, linking to our Geography work on Scandinavia. We were all really proud of our completed pieces that were displayed.

Nevaeh and Harlie shared their work in well done assembly and Emir received a bronze always person award. 

20.12.24

The final day of term. A huge well done to our 2 pupils of the term. Jack has made outstanding progress with his learning behaviours. Nevaeh has really improved her efforts, trying new work and having a positive attitude

Road Safety Training

Working with the road safety team, we learned the Green Cross Code before going to local road and putting our knowledge into action.

Kaide and JJ were in well done assembly because of their great safety work 

Well done Lincoln for winning the reading raffle. An amazing 26 lessons completed using reading plus!

Harry Potter Day! A wonderful effort from all, fantastic costumes.

Our recycling week challenge was to make our own footwear. There were some wonderful designs. A huge well done.

Lincoln and Neveah shared their designs in well done assembly. 

11.10.24

Well done to Sienna for sharing her great writing improvements in well done assembly. Leo also shared his great circuit diagrams 

Ashlyn received a bronze always person badge.

5.10.24

Coding week. We created our own step counters using BBC Microbits. After writing the code, we downloaded our 'forever loops' and went for run to test our work.

A logo workshop saw us build moving helicopters!

Jaxx was in well done assembly for his amazing construction skills 

27.9.24

A huge thank you to Ashlyn and Harlie for baking yummy cookies for our McMillan coffee morning. We raised £22 to add to the rest of the school donations.

Christabel and Devlin shared their great writing in well done assembly

Devlin received a bronze always person award 

We had skateboarding lessons. We had many successes and a few falls! Great effort and resilience from most children.

20.9.24

Our work on the Stone Age saw us investigating the death of Otzi the Iceman by using his remains to ask questions. It’s was really strange looking at a body from 6000 years ago! We also began work on electricity by making circuits.

 Richmond share his great maths work

 Jack received a bronze always person award

13.9.24

We had our first swimming lesson this week with great effort from all. It was very promising to see all children being confident and having a go.

 Tory was in well done assembly for his great start to Year Four and Willow for showing maturity with friendships.

 Pascal was our bronze always person.

6.9.24

A good first week in Year 4. Really good behaviours and attendance from all have been shown and we've made an encouraging start to work. 

 Ashlyn and Vienna shared their art work about David Hockney

 Our first always person was Edie-Belle

Below are some of the exciting memories that children who are currently in Year 3 have experienced since starting school.