Citron 2025-2026

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Citron

Your teacher is Miss Palmer

Your teaching assistants are Miss Routledge, Mrs O'Shea, Mr Dakin and Mrs Elson

In English this week, we read the story, ‘The King who banned The Dark’ by Emily Haworth-Booth. We discussed what it would be like if it never got dark! We used these ideas to write a persuasive text to warn others about the dark and where it might be hiding. We focussed on our use of prepositions, conjunctions, verbs and adverbs to describe a picture of a place in the reader’s mind. Next week, we will continue with the story and look at the features of persuasive speeches. We will plan and write our own speech and present it to our class.

This week in Maths, we have focussed on numbers up to 2000 and learnt how to add and subtract multiples of 100. We have practiced counting in 100s up and down, to and from 2000, and explored the different ways of saying each of the numbers; for example eleven hundred or one thousand one hundred. We have learnt how to add and subtract multiples of a 100 in a range of ways including with a tens frame, part part whole model and on a numberline. We have also continued to work hard on our 4 x tables. Next week, we will be exploring the value of numbers up to 9999 and learning a method for rounding numbers to the nearest thousand, hundred and ten.     

In Science, we have learnt about characteristics. We started by exploring what this word means and then sorted some statements about a living thing into those which were characteristics and those which weren’t. We then had a go at identifying the characteristics of a range of different organisms from a variety of habitats.

In RE, we have explored some religious symbols which are important to Hindus including the Aum and the lotus flower. We started by predicting what we thought each symbol represented, before learning the name of the symbol and its true meaning to Hindus. We also designed some symbols to represent ourselves.

In PSHE, we discussed the word democracy and what it means in the UK. We thought about times in our lives when we are given a choice, both at home and in school. We then took part in a democratic vote of our own, whereby everyone designed a new playground and got to vote on whose they thought was the best.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

PE days for year 4 will be on Mondays and Thursdays

Please bring in library books on a Friday

Well done to our Weekly Award Winners

Eoghan & Yasmine

Darcy & Mikayal

Grace & Maison

Erin &  James

Ansh, Nelson & Grace

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Rockers 

Rock Stars X6 William Jessica X5 George Harry X4 Grace Darcy Isabella Patrick

Numbots James Kai Maison Mikayal Reece

Top 10 Joshua Ranveer Ansh Jessica William Samuel Erin Avneet Harry Isabella

Celebrating Home Learning - Well Done to our weekly Readers

Patrick Alisa Avneet George	Samuel Ansh Jessica Isabella Harry Erin William

Web links that you may find helpful

• www.bbc.co.uk/history
• BBC Bitesize - KS2 Science
• BBC Bitesize - Dance Mat Typing Build speed of typing in a fun and challenging way
• CBBC - Newsround An engaging news based website.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z82hsbk/year/zmyxxycBBC
• Books To Make You Feel Better..pdf

Documents you may find useful

• key-word-spelling-lists.docx
• Spelling Lists - All Year Groups.pdf
• Grammatical Terminology Prompt.pdf