Year 4 - Summer 2 - Week 1

Date: 2nd Jun 2026 @ 1:33pm

The final term is upon us and we were delighted to spend lots of time learning and having fun in the sunshine.

In RE, we discussed how we have all had opportunities to pray in many different ways, through our school assemblies, time in church and our own reflective time. We explained what prayer means to us and concluded that a prayer is an expression of belief and commitment. Using our handprints, we unpicked, using our five fingers, five things we pray for, including those who teach us, lead us, love us and those who are sick or weak.

Turns and angles were our focus in Maths this week alongside lots of times tables practice. We described turns using clockwise and anticlockwise, as well as the size of the turn using quarters and halves, and moved on to describing angles as acute, obtuse or right angles.

Moving on from stories surrounding the wonders of volcanoes, we delved into the depths of caves and caverns with inspiration from the wonderful book Blue John. The story sees us venturing down into the caves where the Queen of Darkness lives, and we follow the adventures of her rare and precious baby, Blue John, who has been created using the blue of a glacier and the gold of the sun. Using the text, we discussed what stalactites are and used similes to describe how they grow. We used aspects of the text to correct the use of past tense and used commands to write a set of instructions.

In PE, we worked hard to prepare for our upcoming Sports Day. From the egg and spoon race to the sack race, we smiled and laughed throughout as we raced our way to victory against our friends and even mastered a three‑legged race. We cannot wait to show our parents and carers the races we have been practising in a couple of weeks.

Our History lessons this term stem from our perspectives of the Vikings and the stereotypes we hold. We generated a range of adjectives and nouns used to describe Vikings and reinforced the chronology of the first Viking raid using a timeline of events. In the role of Saxon spies, we drew from memory a Viking ship and then posed questions to analyse its features. Next week, we will examine why Vikings have such a bad reputation.

On Friday, we headed to Lunt Meadows for a day outdoors. We explored the woodland habitats, using identification guides to classify the creatures we found. We learnt about life cycles, adaptations and microhabitats, and also took part in creating minibeast homes. It was such an incredible day.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend, Year 4!