Year 4
Year Four Lisbon is taught by Orla Reilly. Year Four Padua is taught by Abbie Clark. The Year 4 TAs are Susanna Lam and Reiko Gall. The Year Four classrooms are in the St Francis building and they share the back playground with the rest of KS2.
Weekly Class Updates
Times Tables Day
Year 3 and 4 took part in ‘Times Tables Day’. Throughout the morning, each group spent time with an adult and focused on one particular multiplication table. There were various activities including singing, snakes and ladders style games, Hit the Button and even popcorn maths! Everyone had a brilliant time and enjoyed learning in different styles with children from across all classes.
Year 3 and 4 Sports Day
Sports Day this year was a great success with all children participating in races to gain points for their house. Year 3 took part in the Egg and Spoon Race and Year 4 took part in Skipping Races. As well as this, there were sprints and a relay race. A huge well done to all children for being such great sports and cheering on their team. The winners this year were St Kizito house!
Bhaktivedanta Manor
Year 4 have visited Bhaktivedanta Manor, a Hindu Temple. We had a wonderful day learning more about Hinduism, dressing up, visiting the shrine and seeing the cows. This visit was based on our recent RE lessons where we explored what Hinduism is, the symbols relating to the religion and the place of worship.
Christmas
This year, we had lots of fun celebrating the lead up to Christmas. We got to celebrate together by having our Christmas Jumper day in order to raise money for charity as well as having our class party day. It was very enjoyable getting to celebrate with our friends and we all had a lovely time playing games, singing and dancing.
Tag Rugby
We have been learning how to play tag rugby. As a class, we played some warm up games before putting on the belts and practising our throwing and catching skills. At the end, we had a go at playing some mini matches which we really enjoyed.
Rosary
In Year 4, we have a big focus on learning the Mysteries of the Rosary. Our task over half term was to create our own Rosary Beads to be hung in the corridor for all to see. We think they look fantastic!
Roman Day
In History, we have been learning about the Romans therefore we had a Roman themed day. We all came to school dressed in our finest god and goddess costumes as well as having some Roman soldiers in the mix. Our morning consisted of making Roman shields, similar to which were used during battle. We then had a competition to see who could make the best biscuit Colosseum.
Forest School
During the Autumn Term, Year 4 enjoyed Forest School. We thoroughly enjoyed learning new skills as well as listening to various stories and playing games together. We learnt lots of new things about how to care for the environment and appreciate the world that God gave us.
Cassiobury Farm
Year 4 recently visited Cassiobury Farm as part of our ‘Classification and Changing Habitats’ topic in Science. We really enjoyed seeing all of the different animals and learning more about the conservation work that Cassiobury Farm supports.
Roman Day
On Friday 3rd May, Year 4 took part in a Roman Day. We spent the day developing our knowledge of the Romans by creating shields that would be used for battle, designing mosaics similar to what we saw at Verulamium and finally building sculptures of the Colosseum using biscuits. Everyone looked brilliant in their costumes!
Verulamium Museum
We recently visited the Verulamium Museum in St Albans. We enjoyed learning about the old Roman town and were even able to handle some of the artefacts. We also enjoyed walking around the park and looking at the Hypocaust.
World Book Day
For World Book Day we came to school in our pyjamas to ‘get cosy with a book’. We took part in lots of different World Book Day activities, including completing a book hunt, decorating our classroom door and creating our own bookmarks.
Forest School
During the Autumn term, Year 4 took part in Forest school. In these sessions the children had lots of opportunities to develop skills and followed their own interests to meet different needs. They took part in lots of different activities such as cooking, den building, tree planting and crafts using natural materials.
We are Scientists
In science this half term, we are looking at Projects and Scientists. We have recently planned our own experiment and looked to investigate whether a citrus fruit was able to light a bulb within an electrical circuit. We recorded our results within a results table and used our findings to write a conclusion.
The Day the chairs went on strike!
Our chairs went on strike! We arrived on Monday morning to a letter from our chairs telling us they’ve had enough and that we would have to complete our work without them. We worked hard to write persuasive speeches explaining to the chairs why we needed them and why we were sorry for swinging on them.
Melissa said, “I was annoyed that I had to sit on the carpet while trying to do my work.”
Evie said, “When we eventually got our chairs back, my knees were really sore.”
Albin said, “My back hurt so much when we had to sit on the carpet. We really tried very hard to persuade the chairs that we needed them before the tables disappeared too!”
Story Telling through drawing
Our topic for art this half term is ‘Storytelling Through Drawing’. We started the topic by thinking about the story of us by using our names and transforming them into things we enjoy such as our favourite animals, colours, and food. We then focused on using charcoal to create a mood or texture within a picture which followed the same process that Laura Carlin uses when illustrating books.
Most recently, we read the poem ‘The Tale of Custard the Dragon’ by Ogden Nash to become illustrators ourselves. We each got a stanza of the poem and had to illustrate what we thought was happening using a variety of materials available.
Reading with Reception
In Year 4 we have been writing our own stories about the Colour Monster. As Reception had also read the Colour Monster stories, we then took our stories over to Reception to read them to the younger children.
Cassiobury Farm
In September 2023, both Year 4 classes visited Cassiobury Farm. This was in connection with their Science topic about habitats and environmental changes. Year 4 are working to raise money to save the Lemurs in Madagascar with Project Ala whish will plant more trees to expand the Lemurs’ habitat. The children will continue with this work throughout the year.
Our Retreat to Aylesford
In July we visited Aylesford Friary where we had a talk from a Friar, visited their different chapels and then walked the Rosary Way. We spoke about each of the different mysteries that we have been learning about this year in our Rosary work. The children were very respectful all day and enjoyed reflecting on their learning this year.
