Year 4 - Amber Class and Coral Class
Year 4 Welcome Booklets
Curriculum overview
Autumn 1
What a fun filled first half term we had in year 4.
We started the half term with a focus on our whole school programme ‘Zones of regulation’, completing a variety of tasks to begin categorising our feelings into 4 colours or ‘zones’. We revisit these daily in class and the colours are great for provoking conversations about ‘big feelings’ and what to do about them. In English, the children produced some wonderful writing about mythical creatures and wrote their own chapter based on 'Theseus and the Minotaur'. In Maths, we began our calculation work, completing the column methods for addition and subtraction. In History, we learnt about ancient Greece and some of the significant achievements e.g. Olympic games. In Art, we designed and made Greek theatre masks, using mod roc. In ancient Greek times, this was so that they could be seen from far away! In Science, we loved learning about sound and completed a number of experiments, this half term. We particularly enjoyed testing what happened when you put varied amounts of liquid into glass bottles and tapped them. In Computing, we learnt about networks and the internet this half term. We brought this to life by passing messages between computers, switches and routers.
The children have settled really well and it’s been a fun half term. Well done, children.
Welcome to Year 4
What a wonderful start to the year we have had in year 4. When we arrived in our new classrooms, there was a mysterious box labelled 'Do not open...' The children found it very hard to ignore and for days they were tempted to open it. Eventually, like Pandora, they opened the box. Luckily, no evil came flying out but it was an exciting way to start our topic all about Greek Myths! Take a look at some of the mythical creatures we have created in our early English lessons.
