Welcome to Class 4 2025 – 2026
Homework due Friday 4th November 2025
This week’s homework is Numeracy continuing with our multiplication skills! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
WEE Session
Today, we worked with Emily from the Piece of Mind team to take part in our first session of WEE! WE enjoyed discussing what makes a helpful and unhelpful thought and how we can tackle worries using various tactics.
UNCRC Article 24 – children have the right to good health.
Le Petit Thomas
In our French session today, we began to read through a French text called ‘Le Petit Thomas’. We loved seeing familiar terminology that we have learned over the last half term and previous years!
UNCRC Article 29 – education should fulfil a child’s talents and interests to the fullest.
Cornerstones Engagement
We had Adam Bushnell visit us today to launch our new Cornerstones topic of ‘Traders and Raiders’! We had so much fun looking at replica Viking and Saxon artefacts before having a ‘boast-off’, using our Literacy skills.
UNCRC Article 29 – education should fulfil a child’s talents and interests to the fullest.
Homework due Friday 7th November 2025
This week’s homework is Halloween inspired! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
Welcome back
Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome back to school everyone and to Autumn 2! I hope you have enjoyed your break and are looking forward to the new half term.
In Class 4, we are looking forward to having lots of fun learning new things and getting to know our new topics. This half term our new Cornerstones topic is ‘Traders and Raiders’, where the children will be learning all about The Saxons, The Vikings and the invasions they conducted. Please keep an eye on our section of the school website to find out about all the exciting things we are doing in class.
Just a few notes for your diary:
Homework is given out on Mondays and is expected back in school on Fridays. Children’s homework can also be uploaded to DB. Spellings are given out on Wednesdays for our spelling tests on Mondays.
Swimming will continue again this half term for Class 4 on Thursday mornings! Please ensure that your child comes to school on a Thursday morning with appropriate kit.
Forest School will continue to happen this year for Key Stage 2 children. Please keep an eye out for further information being sent home regarding outdoor wear and dates.
Finally, PE kits! Please send in a PE kit on a Monday and leave it at school throughout the week. We will return this home on a Friday. Our PE days change each half term depending on available coaches in school.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Many Thanks,
Mrs Edwards
Harvest Festival
We had so much fun singing our harvest hymns alongside showcasing our poem Harvest Time for our friends and families at the local church.
UNCRC Article 14 – children have the right to practice any or no religion.
Halloween Disco
We had a spooktacular time at the Halloween disco! We showed off our dance moves, alongside our fabulous costumes, while demonstrating amazing Rights Respecting behaviour.
UNCRC Article 31 – every child has the right to relax and play.
Topic Celebration
To celebrate the end of our topic, Fallen Fields, we created some beautiful blackout poetry using famous WWI poems. We loved showing our creative side in generating new pieces of literature, alongside crafting a beautiful tissue paper poppy underneath.
UNCRC Article 31 – every child has the right to take part in artistic activities.
Speed Bounce with Darren
We had Darren from the SSP come to work with us for our first inter-house sport, speed bounce! We enjoyed taking part in this new activity.
UNCRC Article 31 – every child has the right to take part in a wide range of activities.
Career Encounter
Today, we were lucky enough to have Callum from the Royal Navy come and visit us. He spoke about his journey in education, how he got to be where he is within the Navy and answered any questions we had.
UNCRC Article 29 – education should fulfil the interests of children to the fullest.
Homework due Friday 24th October 2025
This week’s homework is Halloween inspired! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
Chartwells Flavour of Food Day
We had a fantastic time looking at food on the farm with Chartwells, who showed us how things are planted, produced and packaged. We learned lots about nutrition and every had the chance to taste things we’d never had before, like a radish!
UNCRC Article 31 – every child has the right to take part in a wide range of activities.
Raising awareness of Recycling
In our Geography session today, we created some fabulous informative posters to signal the benefits of recycling to encourage our friends and family to be more climate friendly!
UNCRC Article 29 – education should widen and fulfil children’s interests.
Homework due Friday 17th October 2025
This week’s homework is continuing to look at our Science work of Animals Including Humans! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
Creating Art using Fairtrade products
Continuing on with our learning of Fairtrade Fortnight, we created some beautiful poppy artwork to fit with our Cornerstones topic of Fallen Fields, using Fairtrade coffee!
UNCRC Article 31 – every child has the right to take part in a wide range of activities.
World Mental Health Day
To celebrate world Mental Health Day, we came to school wearing things that make us feel happy! We talked a lot about our feelings during assembly, took part in a whole school meditation and then created some helpful worry-busting informative posters in our PSHCE session.
UNCRC Article 24 – every child has the right to the best possible health.
Homework due Friday 10th October 2025
This week’s homework is continuing to look at our multiplication skills! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
More Netball with Darren
In PE, we’ve been making such good progress that Darren has been allowing us to take part in mini matches of netball! Everyone is showing fabulous determination and confidence in this new sport – one which we have all grown to love.
UNCRC Article 31 – every child has the right to take part in a wide range of activities.
Gymnastics Trip
Today, we were lucky enough to take part in a Gymnastics Festival at Sherburn Gymnastics Centre. We loved honing our gymnastic skills and showed great determination and resilience.
UNCRC Article 29 – education should fulfil children’s interests and hobbies to the fullest.
Homework due Friday 3rd October 2025
This week’s homework is looking at our Literacy topic of King Arthur! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
Netball in PE
We’ve been loving working with Darren over the past couple of weeks to hone our newfound netball skills.
UNCRC Article 31 – every child has the right to take part in a wide range of activities.
Macmillan Coffee Morning
Today, we welcomed our parents and carers into school to attend our first ever Macmillan Coffee Morning. Staff and governors made kind donations of cakes and biscuits to sell at the event and we all had so much fun showing off our hard work for Fairtrade Fortnight.
UNCRC Article 24 – children have the right to the best possible health.
Height Check in Science
Continuing on with our Science topic of Animals Including Humans, we’ve been looking at how the human body grows and develops over time. We thought it would be great to check our height at the start of the year and compare it with the end! Let’s see how much our height progresses as we grow…
UNCRC Article 28 – every child has the right to an education.
Homework due Friday 26th September 2025
This week’s homework is looking at our new Science topic of Animals Including Humans, specifically life cycles! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
Jeans for Genes Day
In school, we celebrated Jeans for Genes Day by coming to school wearing denim! We raised lots of money for this amazing charity and loved learning all about the good things that they do.
UNCRC Article 15 – children have the right to meet in groups.
Live Performance from Mr Stokoe
To introduce our Year 4s to the wonderful world of violin lessons, Mr Stokoe popped into our class today to give us both a presentation and a performance! It was fantastic to hear this live music from various famous film soundtracks.
UNCRC Article 31 – children have the right to take part in a wide range of activities.
Physical timeline of WWI
Today in History, we began to look at the timeline of events within the First World War as part of our new topic! We discussed the significance of each event and what prior knowledge we had before creating our own timelines in our books.
UNCRC Article 28 – every child has the right to an education.
Homework due Friday 19th September 2025
This week’s homework is looking at our multiplication skills! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
French High Street
En lundi, we began to learn the names of places within the French High Street. We loved pronouncing these new terms and showcased our amazing French accents!
UNCRC Article 13 – children have the right to express themselves.
Homework due Friday 12th September 2025
This week’s homework is looking at our reading comprehension skills! Can you find your group’s worksheet and complete it? Remember, if you upload your homework onto DB it’s 500 table points for your table!
Speaking and Listening
In our Literacy session today, we talked about our new Cornerstones topic and asked questions about WWI. We discussed what we would like to know more about and created a post-it wall of questions for us to work through this term.
UNCRC Article 29 – children have the right to learn about cultural identity.
Cornerstones Engagement
We introduced our new Cornerstones topic of ‘Fallen Fields’ this morning by looking at propaganda posters from WWI and creating our own! We loved creating our own versions of the posters we saw and are looking forward to learning lots of facts about WWI.
UNCRC Article 28 – every children has the right to an education.
Working on our Charter
Today, we began to look at creating our class charter using the UNCRC Articles that we believe suit our values and visions best. We worked in our pairs to come up with ideas for statements to add to our charter before compiling UNCRC Articles together as class.
UNCRC Article 12 – children have the right to be heard.
Welcome to Autumn 1
Welcome back to school everyone and to Autumn 1! I hope you have enjoyed your break and are looking forward to the new half term.
In Class 4, we are looking forward to having lots of fun learning new things and getting to know our new topics. This half term our new Cornerstones topic is ‘Fallen Fields’, where the children will be learning all about World War One and its impact on our country. Please keep an eye on our section of the school website to find out about all the exciting things we are doing in class.
Just a few notes for your diary:
Homework is given out on Mondays and is expected back in school on Fridays. Children’s homework can also be uploaded to DB. Spellings are given out on Wednesdays for our spelling tests on Mondays.
Swimming will begin again this half term for Class 4 on Thursday mornings! Please ensure that your child comes to school on a Thursday morning with appropriate kit. Swimming sessions will not begin until next week, Thursday 11th September.
Forest School will continue to happen this year for Key Stage 2 children. Please keep an eye out for further information being sent home regarding outdoor wear and dates.
Finally, PE kits! Please send in a PE kit on a Monday and leave it at school throughout the week. We will return this home on a Friday. Our PE days change each half term depending on available coaches in school.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Many Thanks,
Mrs Edwards
