Citron

Citron 2024-2025

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Citron

Your teacher is Miss Palmer

Your teaching assistants are Miss Blackwell, Miss Routledge & Mrs Green

In English this week, we have focussed on spellings, and we have used different ways to remember them. We also looked again at the features of persuasive writing and gathered ideas for next week, where we will be writing a longer letter, and in more detail, about litter in the community. We will include a range of conjunctions, punctuation and adverbial phrases, and also include some facts and personal anecdotes. We will keep referring to the story of, ‘Greta and the Giants,’ inspired by Greta Thunberg and her stand to save the world!

This week in Maths, we have focussed on our times tables and were very excited to receive our amazing MTC results! We are so proud of everyone for working so hard this year to increase their confidence, speed and fluency. Next week, we will be learning more about time and will concentrate on converting between the 12 and 24 hour clock. We will also be solving time related problems by converting minutes to seconds, days to weeks and months to years.

This week has been Sports Week! We have had a great time, trying new sports and meeting some inspirational people! On Monday, we took part in Jamie Knight’s Freestyle Football workshop and learnt some Contemporary Lyrical Dance with Mrs Green. Tuesday we were busy with a Fitness and Nutrition class with Mr Hall, a Skipping Ninja event and some Street Dance with Kieran Lai. Wednesday we had a Brilliant Dance workshop, Azure Cheerleading and Orienteering. Thursday we enjoyed Hemel Storm Basketball, Tennis with Leverstock Green Tennis Club and some Archery. To end the week, we had our fabulous Sports Day!

As part of our learning in music for this term, Year 4 have been working hard to learn 8 new songs by the community band, Electric Umbrella. This week, we have enjoyed visiting St Albans Cathedral to take part in a wonderful 'Shine A Light' concert with the band themselves! Through the power of music, the children were able to celebrate key values such as tolerance, respect, diversity and the importance of being true to ourselves! We loved singing and dancing along in a beautiful setting with Electric Umbrella and lots of other schools, whilst developing our confidence through performance and song. Well done to all our Year 4 singing superstars!

What an amazing week we have all had!

PE days for Year 4 in the summer term will be Tuesdays and Thursdays

Our library day is Friday - please bring books into school every week