Welcome to Year 4 

Mr Woest

This week: 12/09/2025

Immersion day Monday: On Monday, we decided to make our Viking shields. We cut them out and added some fierce (and sometimes rather fabulous) designs. Then came the paint — things got colourful very quickly! We even used the colour wheel to see how mixing primary colours could give us new shades. After that, we marched outside and built a Viking longship on the field. Let’s just say, the Vikings would have been proud… or possibly confused. Either way, we had great fun! 

Our value for this term: Thankfulness

In maths this week, we started looking at place value. We practised partitioning four-digit numbers and worked with number lines. The children are working hard to estimate totals on a number line — though some of them seem to think Viking shields should be used for counting too!

In literacy, we explored different sight words from our story. We learned when to use a or an in a sentence and looked at prepositions. The children enjoyed putting words into sentences, sometimes with surprisingly funny results (turns out Vikings don’t just sail ships — they can apparently “sit on bananas” too).

In science, we investigated what makes something a living thing. We went outside and explored all the different living and non-living things around us. The children learned lots of new vocabulary and enjoyed writing in their topic books — though one or two wished we’d found a real-life dragon.

In topic, we continued our history journey into the world of the Vikings. The children are learning where they came from, why they travelled to England, how they liked to get around, and what food they enjoyed. So far, the longships are a big hit… the Viking diet, not so much!

PE Kit: We’ll continue having P.E. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so please make sure the kids are ready with PE clothes and sneakers. 🏃‍♀️👟

Remember next Friday's  Jeans for Genes day everyone>

Enjoy the weekend everyone.