Citron

Citron 2025-2026

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Citron

Your teacher is Miss Palmer

Your teaching assistants are Miss Routledge, Mrs O'Shea & Mrs Elson

We have been working super hard this week in Year 4!

In English this week, we continued with our Greek myths and learning the story of Daedalus and Icarus. We wrote a diary entry in role as Daedalus, and used emotive language to describe the character’s feelings. We then read a new myth, ‘Theseus and The Minotaur.’ We looked at the conversations between the characters and wrote the dialogue for the story, starting with speech bubbles then focussing on the accurate use of speech punctuation. Next week, we will be planning, and beginning to write our own myths.

This week in Maths, we have been learning how to tell the time to the nearest minute. We have practised reading a range of ‘minutes past’ and ‘minutes to’ times on the clock, before learning how to write the times down in both words and numbers. We have explored the different types of clock - analogue, 12 hour digital and 24 hour digital - and made comparisons between them. We have also learnt how to convert am and pm 12 hour times into the 24 hour clock. Next week, we will be practising how to convert am and pm times in the 24 hour clock into 12 hour clock. We will also learn a method for calculating time durations.

In science, we have started our new topic on States of Matter. We began by sorting different items into solids, liquids and gases. Then, we explored the different properties of the different states and discovered how particles are arranged in each of these states to either create a liquid, solid or gas!

In history, we explored the legacies left behind by the ancient Greeks, and what was involved in the ancient Olympic Games. We designed our own 5-day Olympic programme, ensuring a balance of religious, sporting and social events. We then looked at how the Ancient Greeks have influenced our lives today and how they have left a number of lasting legacies, which even thousands of years later, we still participate in.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

PE days for year 4 will be on Mondays and Tuesdays

Please bring in library books on a Friday