Year 4 - Summer 1 - Week 2

Date: 20th Apr 2026 @ 9:07pm

Another fantastic week in Year 4, here are some of our highlights:

In RE, we reflected on our recent visit to St Peter’s Church and used this experience to help us label features in a church image. We then compared these features with those found in a mosque. The children thought critically about the similarities and differences between the two places of worship and explained why certain features hold importance within both the Christian and Muslim faiths.

In Maths, we continued our work on time, focusing on reading analogue clocks, converting to digital time and understanding how to read and write the 24‑hour clock.

Our focus story, Where the Forest Meets the Sea, inspired some brilliant English work. The book explores the forest in the past, present and future, so the children created expanded noun phrases beginning with the sentence starter “I once was in a place where…” to describe what the forest looked like at different points in time. Linking to our understanding of deforestation, we discussed why the future image showed no trees and only buildings.

We also revisited possessive apostrophes by creating a top‑ten list of items we would take on a rainforest expedition, using apostrophes to show which items we would borrow from friends. After listening to a documentary narrated by David Attenborough about the Draco lizard, the children used his style as inspiration to write their own narration about a hungry tree shrew.

In Geography, we identified the location of rainforests on a world map. We located the equator and learnt that the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn sit above and below it. The children discovered that most rainforests are found within this zone. In Science, we explored how particles are arranged in different states of matter and considered whether it is only liquids that can be poured.

In Outdoor Learning this week, we explored the life cycle of a ladybird through a hands‑on modelling activity. The children used clay to create each stage of the cycle – egg, larva, pupa and adult – paying close attention to the shapes, textures and colours that make each stage unique. They arranged their models on natural materials such as leaves, twigs and bark before adding labels and writing a fact to explain what happens at each point in the cycle.

Have a lovely weekend, and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.