Year 4 - Autumn 1 - Week 2

Date: 9th Sep 2025 @ 2:55pm

What a fantastic week we have had in Year 4!

This week’s focus in Maths has been Place Value and showcasing what each number is worth, within a given number. We have been working hard to break down numbers into their thousands, hundreds, tens and ones, find numbers to 1000 on a number line and partition them using a part-whole model. Next week, we will represent and partition numbers to 10,000 and find 1, 10, 100 and 1000 more and less.

In English, we had an exciting morning at the TSP Circus. We used our senses to stimulate some fantastic ideas for our creative writing, linked to our new book Leon and the Place Between. We learnt about the importance of using adjectives in our writing so our readers can understand just what it is like to visit a circus and can grasp what the atmosphere is like. By using a double bubble map, we were able to showcase adjectives to highlight the similarities and differences between two images of a circus tent. Laughter filled the air as we played a game of truth and dare, to help us understand what dare Leon might be undertaking as the sign appears in our story asking Do you dare to go to the Place Between. We made some great predictions about what the Place Between might be and next week, we will create a survival guide for anyone who dares to visit.

In RE, we thought carefully about the values David held and how he followed God’s footsteps, reflecting on how those lessons can guide us too.During Science, we used classification charts to group and sort living things, learning how scientists organise the world around us. In Geography, we challenged ourselves to locate all 50 states on a map of the USA—an impressive task that really tested our memory and map skills! For Art, we practised creating highlights and shadows, exploring how light and dark can bring drawings to life. 

We also celebrated Roald Dahl Day on Wednesday and were inspired by the fantastic story George’s Marvellous Medicine. In the story, George encapsulates our school value of Imagine and just like George, we are curious and creative too, so we created our very own marvellous medicine!

Finally, we commenced our swimming lessons this week. We have been truly focusing on our school value of Hope to have belief in ourselves that we are all fantastic swimmers.

Thank you for such a lovely week, Year 4. Have a restful weekend.

Reminders for this half term:

• Weekly spellings will commence on Friday 12th September. If you have anyproblems logging into Google Classroom to access the spelling list, please let us know.

• Reading books and reading records should have arrived home this week. Children reading on the coloured book bands should return their reading book each week on their given reading day.

• Year 4 will attend a two-day, hands-on programme at the Laurels Wood site on the following dates:

  • Visit 1 – Friday 26 September 2025

  • Visit 2 – Friday 7 November 2025

• Children should wear PE kits every Tuesday for PE and every Wednesday for swimming.

• Recorder lessons take place every Monday.

• To encourage the children to stay hydrated throughout the day, we ask that they bring a water bottle to school.