Year 4
Notices
Please remember to bring your bookbag each day, with your reading book inside. Please also remember a named water bottle.
Our PE days are:
4SL: Monday (Indoor) Wednesday (Outdoor)
4AA: Monday (Outdoor) Tuesday (Indoor)
Please come in your PE uniform on these days. Please ensure you have warm clothing and suitable shoes for outdoor PE days.
Boomreader
We encourage children to read at least 4 times a week and log this on Boomreader.
TT-Rockstars
Children should be fluent in their times tables up to 12x. Regular practice on TT-Rockstars will support children in becoming fluent.
Autumn 1 Spellings
We use a scheme called Sounds and Syllables. This half term, we will be learning to spell words with the following spelling patterns:
- words with elision
- the /s/ sound spelled <sc>
- the /ch/ sound spelled <t>
- the /k/ sound spelled <ch>
- the /sh/ sound spelled <ch>
- the /s/ sound spelled <st>
- the /i/ sound spelled <y>
Year 4 Reading Spine
It is important that children are reading regularly at home. Please take a look at the Year 4 reading spine which has suggestions of books that are by the authors we look at in school. Many of these books can be found in the school library. If not, you may be able to borrow them from Loughborough Library.
Our Learning
Topic- Walk like and Egyptian- 30.10.26
To place Ancient Egypt on a timeline
Today, we explored where Ancient Egypt fits on a historical timeline. We revisited the periods we have studied so far, including the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman era and Victorian era. We placed these periods in chronological order and added key information about each one, considering what communities and cultures were like, significant invasions and the leaders who ruled during these times.
Design and Technology – Water Turbines
Year 4 have had a busy few days with our DT learning! We were tasked with designing and making a prototype of a water turbine for our school. Our design brief was that it had to rotate smoothly, the blades were an equal distance apart, it had to be waterproof and stable. Please see our photos of our making process and finished turbines!
Moorland Discovery Centre- 29.09.26
Year 4 had a fantastic time exploring the moors at the Moorland Discovery Centre! We came back with lots of new information about the moors, the plants that grow there and the tributaries leading to Burgage Brook. We started by making a model to show why water flows downstream, which was a creative activity that required lots of precision. We then explored one of the tributaries, identifying features such as the river banks, waterfalls and source, while learning about erosion and deposition. The children also worked in small groups to measure the speed of the current, the depth and the width of the stream. It was certainly an adventurous and exciting trip, and the children thoroughly enjoyed getting out and exploring! We will use all the information we gathered to create a leaflet about the moors and rivers in our next lesson.
Science – States of Matter – 26.08.26
Today, we learned about three different states of matter. We explored how the properties of a solid, liquid and gas. We consolidated our learning by classifying objects based on their state of matter. Some of these were quite tricky, such as shaving cream and toothpaste!