Find out more about Year 4, Centaurs.

We enjoyed our visit to the cinema today - the children were impeccably behaved.  This week, we completed our Anti-bullying work for the hall display - have a look when you're buying your books at the Book Fair.  Robin Hood and the Sherwood Hoodies has started it's rehearsals and we can't wait to show you, lots of jokes and plenty of action.  Our participation in the spelling competition on Emile was interrupted by the cinema visit, but we'll see how we place when the finals finish.  We've been adding multiples of 10 to a four digit number, bridging through 10, 100 and 1000.  This has been a bit tricky so please find time to practise at home, this game might help - https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/flipCounter/index....

Have an excellent weekend and keep practising your times tables!

Spellings this week: musician, politician, electrician, magician, mathematician, dietician, statistician, technician, clinician, beautician

I'm still counting all the donations from today's Children in Need Challenge 25, thank you!  Our week has been so full, ranging from showing such respect at the war memorial for Remembrance Day, coming second in our Emile spelling competition and going through to the national finals, plus creating some fantastic artwork linked to Anti-bullying week for the hall display.  The children are so enthusiastic and eager to take on all our learning plus showing empathy for each other and those that they don't even know.

Next week we are off to the cinema, building on our addition skills, continuing our sentence stacking linked to Ancient Greece and lots more!  Enjoy a rest this weekend and put your Strictly dancing feet up!.

Spellings this week: invention, injection, action, question, mention, attraction, translation, devotion, position, solution

It has been wonderful to have all the children back after a restful two week break, having a good reset to start the term.  This week we have been fortunate enough to have visits from Father Roger to share his knowledge about signs and sybmols in the Christian nativity and two more sessions with Mr Ford promoting discussions about finances, charity giving and what is a need or a want.  For our recount unit, we have travelled back to ancient Greece to participate in the festival of Panathenaia, celebrating the goddess Athena.  The children have worked really hard learning the 6, 7 and 9 times tables and we are becoming very competitive when playing MTC games.

Next week we will be completing our Challenge 25 for Children in Need, marking Remembrance Day by attending the war memorial and looking at how we are all accountable for stamping bullying out.  Have a super weekend and thank you in advance for your charitable donations and cakes to support Children in Need.

2nd Autumn 2025 Year 4 Europe.pdf

Happy Friday everyone!  Our week has been very full: visits from Wiltshire Fire and Rescue, Swindon Town Football Club, Harvest celebration, acting out our film storyboards, writing music for our recorders and completing our assessed write based on Feast.  It was lovely to see so many parents supporting their children by attending parents' meetings, thank you for your patience and hopefully you found them useful.  Thank you for the generous donations for Harvest, they will be well received.  The cinema trip cost of £5 is now on ParentPay so please consider clearing this over the half term.  

Have an awesome half term and I look forward to hearing all about it on Monday 3rd November.

expansion, extension, comprehension, tension, corrosion, supervision, fusion, conclusion, persuasion, suspension

What a week - so proud of all the children and how adaptable and resilient they are.  The children who came to Grittleton showed teamwork, determination to overcome problems and great friendships.  The children who were in Year 5 showed all the school values, carried on even when they were missing their friends and completed so much work.  Mental Health day today allowed time for the children to think about places - their Happy Place, their Middle Place and their Busy Place.  Carry on the discussion over the weekend and see if your places are the same as theirs.  Hopefully the Christmas card designs made it home - once you have ordered online, please return the form with attached artwork so it can be sent by Friday 17th October.  

Next week, PCSO Justine on Monday, please remember Harvest donation on Tuesday, parents meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday (if you've not been able to book, I will try to catch you at drop off), Callum from STFC and Davina Sparks from Wiltshire Fire on Wednesday, deadline on Thursday for cinema response and Friday finish for half term (no staff run clubs)!  Can you believe it!

Spellings this week: division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television, revision, erosion, inclusion, explosion

Have a super weekend and thank you for all your support and kind words.

Well, everyone has had a tough week this week with assessments, but no one gave up.  Credit to the children (and the adults) for their determination to do their best.  These assessments are vital for looking to fill the gaps in learning and helping to ensure all the children feel confident in completing future assessments.  Our afternoons have been filled with talking about money and how to keep it safe.  Mr Ford, from Nationwide, has kindly volunteered to share his wealth of knowledge and advice.  Hopefully, this has prompted some interesting conversations at home and a better understanding of how to look after money.  

Next week, we will be away on our residential to Grittleton and I hope to keep you updated through the school FaceBook page.  Just be aware, reception is very patchy where we are.  Enjoy the weekend and don't forget to pack everything you need! 

Spellings this week: medal, meddle, missed, mist, scene, seen, board, bored, which, witch

The sugar rush is just beginning to wear off after our lovely Belgium waffles eaten as part of our European Day of Languages!  We have been speaking French, German and Dutch, identifying where Belgium is in Europe and finding out about the Atomium.  The children showed great resilience during our Emile MTC competition earning us a place in the finals next week.  All this practise helps with using a device to enter the answers as quickly as possible.  We have discovered a great exercise in PE - cone air hockey - ask the children to demonstrate.  Our strength and stamina has improved just in the last couple of weeks, shown by the increased participation during circuits and Mile Run.  

Next week is assessment week, so plenty of early nights, drinking lots of water and being outside when we're not completing assessments.  Have a exhilarating weekend!

illegal, illegible, illogical, illiterate, illicit, irregular, irrelevant, irresponsible, irrational, irresistible

A full week, continuing our sentence stacking for "Feast" where we have used onomatopoeia, pathetic fallacy, alliteration and similes!  Our maths has been focussing on adding multiples of 1,000 and working hard on all our times tables.  We found out more about the Jewish faith, the Ten Commandments and what a Mezuzah is.  We enjoyed a sweaty PE, building our stamina and strength with some core exercises.

Have a super weekend.

Spellings this week: Immature, Immeasurable, Impossible, Immortal, Imperfect, Impatient, Immovable, Impolite, Important, Improper

The highlight of this week was how engaged the children were with the RAF STEM workshop.  Their listening, participation and enjoyment was a pleasure to be part of.  Thank you to those who were able to attend "Meet the teacher" on Wednesday, I hope you found it informative.  We have continued with our sentence stacking linked to "Feast" from Disney.  The children are putting a big effort into making their presentation the best it can be plus improving the sentences with their own ideas and extensive vocabulary.  With the weather being so changeable, please ensure a waterproof coat is in school every day plus waterproof shoes if possible.  This week's spellings are: inactive, incorrect, inaccurate, insecure, indefinite, incomplete, infinite, inedible, inability, indecisive.  How many words can you use this weekend?

An amazing RAF STEM workshop delivered by Pete from Hyett Education.  The children were outstanding, completing a difficult activity teaching a computer to recognise a UFO and launch a plane to intercept!

What a fantastic start to Year 4!  The children have created awesome film strips this week ready to start making into films - watch out Hollywood!  We have been identifying values of digits in a four digit number and started our science topic about Living in the Environment.  We found out about the promise God made to the Jewish people by sharing the story of Abraham and Sarah.  The children were amazing remembering so much from last year's Happy Mind and we started our happy breathing today.

Have a super weekend and remember, school photos on Monday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLeIT3QwKFo&list=P... Ode to Joy recorder music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pCBOmp0I8&list=P... Three easy tunes for recorders

https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-table...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdF_vFAxwas - 7 times table song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnNkgMbtfs - 8 times table song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=154VoUQbgvc - 9 times table song

https://www.toporopa.eu/en/index.html - Countries of Europe games

https://parents.goapps.app/

https://students.doodlelearning.com/

https://www.languagenut.com/en-gb/?session=ondeman...

Autumn Spelling Bee 25.pdf

In Year 4, the expectation is that homework will be completed at home.  If this is not possible, please come and talk to me and we will work out a solution.

At least 20 minutes of quality reading every day.  This can be non-fiction, instruction manuals, graphic novels - as long as there is enjoyment and pleasure!  Please record on BoomReader and encourage some reading aloud to enhance fluency and intonation.

DoodleMaths - optional assignments will be set each week plus other activities to support learning.

DoodleSpell - weekly spellings will be available here, please encourage the children to write down the spellings too so they become part of the hand's muscle memory.  Spellings will be on the weekly page of the website and soon we will have spelling books.

Timestables - learn through songs, make your own games, lots of different websites to support, have a timestables poster somewhere in the house, anything that works!

Oracy - talk, talk and talk some more!  Find a topic to talk about, research something together, debate something that the children are passionate about.  Just find the opportunity to talk....enjoy and listen.  Choose one of these images, click on it and find some ideas for discussion.  https://www.teachingpacks.co.uk/images-to-inspire/

Our first topic is called "Lights, Camera, Action."   By the end of the topic we will