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Year 4
Welcome to Year 4!
Miss Keens (Flamingos) and Mrs Day (Parrots) will keep you up to date with the children's learning on this page of our website.
Please click on the stars below to find out more.
Contact the Year 4 Team
year.4@newlandsprimary.co.uk
Summer 1 2025 - Invaders & Settlers Part 2
After reading the first three chapters of our class text Viking Boy, we got into role as the main character Gunnar and asked each other questions to understand more about his thoughts and feelings!
Spring 2 2025 - Invaders & Settlers
Some of our amazing homework from Spring 2!!!
We enjoyed a visit from Southampton City Mission as part of our R.E learning about Paschal Candles with they key concept of darkness and light.
As part of National Sign Language Week, we took part in a BSL online lesson! We learnt how to fingerspell, say our names, some useful phrases and colours!
Fingerspelling our names!
Fingerspelling our names!
Parrots went to the sustainability centre to learn about Anglo-Saxons!
We LOVED dressing up for World Book Day! Our outfits looked incredible!
We enjoyed a visit from one of our Governors! She came in to talk to the children about her job and how she reads and writes non-fiction texts!
We enjoyed having time to share a non-fiction book with our adults this afternoon. Thank you to all of those parents/carers that came!
We have enjoyed starting our new Science topic about electricity! We have been looking at creating a circuit and what happens when different components are removed or added! We have also been making switches and seeing how these work in a circuit!
Flamingos enjoyed their trip to The Sustainability Centre in Petersfield. We got to show off our current knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons and learnt lots of new facts! We got to see REAL artefacts, explore a replica longhouse and even met an Anglo-Saxon!
We have enjoyed starting our new class text Beowulf! Some of us have loved getting to act out the story so far!
Spring 1 2025- Ice Palace
We enjoyed having our adults come into class this week to share with them our Computing knowledge! We showed them what we have been getting up to on TTRockstars and using our co-ordinate knowledge on Battleships! We then showed our our new coding knowledge on Turtle Academy by setting them a challenge to make a shape using code themselves!
We have enjoyed "Safer internet day" today! We have been learning about how to be safe online from scams and have been learning about 'phishing' which has nothing to do with fishing!
Some of our 'icy' inspired Spring 1 Homework!
We have been learning about states of matter in Science. We have been looking at solids, liquids and gases and what happens to them when they are melted or frozen!
We have enjoyed learning coding in Computing. We have been using Turtle Academy to create our own wrapping paper!
Flamingos have loved their four sessions with Bal from the Mental Health in Schools Team. We have been learning all about emotions, flipping our lid and strategies to cope with big emotions!
We enjoyed working as a team in RSHE! We had the challenge of creating the funniest potato person and had to work together to design them and give them a name and personality!
Year 4 LOVED having Kate from Southampton Art Gallery in school for a workshop today. We got to have a go at printing using three colours inspired by a real piece of art she brought from the gallery!
Year 4 had to go on a quest to save our class animals! We had to cross a raging river, find a safe path through a volcano field and find a magical tool to help us save our animals!
Autumn 2 2024 - Tomb Raiders!
Some of our amazing homework!
We have loved making our own pop-up books in D.T this half-term!
We walked as Ancient Egyptians for the day! We looked AMAZING in our outfits!!!!
We loved getting to perform to our parents and adults! We got to show off our learning from Showcase Music and performed different songs on our instruments!
We have been busy investigating Sound in Science! We have been looking at how sound travels through different mediums and how it travels over distances!
We enjoyed a workshop with Mrs Weaver from Owls (The Resource Base for the Deaf). She talked to us about the parts of the ear and how we are able to hear sound! We learnt lots of new vocabulary and even some fun facts about the bones in our ear!
We enjoyed a visit from Andy who works at SeaCity Museum in Southampton! He came in to talk to us about all things Ancient Egypt. He told us stories, some interesting facts and showed us some artefacts! He even demonstrated the process of mummification by mummifying an orange!
Year 4 have had some strange encounters this week! First a mysterious box with a message from Howard Carter and then today when they went exploring they found an Ancient Egyptian burial chamber!
Autumn 1 2024 - Charlotte's Web
We enjoyed our "Puppet Parade". We showed off our D.T hand puppets and paraded around Key Stage Two showing off our hard work!
Our amazing hand puppets we created in D.T inspired by Charlotte's Web!
Our Autumn 1 Homework
Dress up day in court
We had a go at becoming Templeton and having to search for a word to go on Charlotte's Web! The children had to look at scraps of newspaper and find some convincing words to help save Wilbur's life!
After some strange sightings of webs and words this week, we created news reports live from Mr Zuckerman's farm to explain what had happened!
Year 4 found a web...
Minstead Study Centre
We loved taking part in a Maths problem solving activity this week! The children all showed off their creative thinking and their resilience by not giving up!
We have been busy during our "belonging week" setting our new classroom expectations and getting to know our new teams! The children all made their own flamingo or parrot to add to our class charters!