Citron

Citron 2026-2027

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Citron

Your teachers are Miss Mills and Miss Smith

Your teaching assistant is Mrs Archer

What a busy half term it has been for Team Cobalt and Team Citron!

As artists, we have been learning all about the painter Henri Rousseau. We enjoyed learning lots of interesting facts about him, before moving on to exploring sketching using different pencils, oil pastels, and paints. We then went on to create our own drawings and paintings inspired by the style of Henri Rousseau. We are so proud of the finished results – they look amazing!

In RE, we have been learning about the religion of Hinduism. We have explored the origins of Hinduism and enjoyed using maps to find out where it is now practised across the world. As well as this, we have investigated Hindu worship and what this involves, and explored a range of key Hindu symbols, learning what they mean and why they are important to Hindus. We have also learnt about three of the main Hindu festivals: Holi, Diwali and Navaratri. We all agreed on how much fun the festival of Holi looked!

As scientists, we have been learning about ‘Living Things and their Habitats’. We have enjoyed learning about the different animal groups, and used classification keys to group animals based on their characteristics. We loved visiting the school garden and grounds during our ‘Invertebrate Hunt’, in order to collect insect specimens to observe and create labelled drawings of! We found all sorts of creepy crawlies including spiders, wood lice and snails!

Next half term, we have lots of exciting learning to look forward to. We are excited about continuing our learning relating to ‘Living Things and their Habitats’ in Science. We will also be designing and sewing our own Christmas decorations as part of our Design and Technology topic and as historians we will continue to explore the history of our local area; learning about Robert Snooks – a notorious Hertfordshire highwayman!

Well done for a great start to the term, Year 4! Have a lovely break and we will see you soon!

PE days for Team Citron will be Wednesdays and Thursdays

Please bring in library books on a Tuesday and thank you for remembering your Reading Records on Fridays as we look to celebrate reading at home.

Weekly Highlights

Week commencing 19.10.26

This week in Science, we have been exploring the natural world by investigating the difference between flowering and non-flowering plants and mastering how to sort and classify them. Meanwhile, in Art, we have completed our final pieces inspired by Henri Rousseau using a mix of paints and oil pastels with a focus on blending colours together.

Week commencing 12.10.26

This week in Science, we worked in small groups to investigate and compare the unique characteristics of different organisms. Meanwhile, in Art, we have begun working on our final pieces inspired by the famous French artist, Henri Rousseau. We have been practising our observational drawing skills by sketching tigers and experimenting with oil pastels to bring our animal to life.

Week commencing 05.10.26

This week in Science, we built upon the excitement of last week's bug hunt by drawing detailed, labelled diagrams of the invertebrates we discovered and then looked at their unique characteristics. Inspired by the famous artist Henri Rousseau, we learnt how to stretch tigers and toucans and focused on their shading techniques.

Week commencing 28.09.26

This week in PSHE, Team Citron focused on what kindness looks like in our classroom, having a wonderful time writing and sharing lovely compliments with one another. In our French lessons, we built on our language skills by creating simple descriptive sentences to describe different hair and eye colours. Finally, in preparation for our final piece inspired by Henri Rousseau's famous jungle landscapes, we have been experimenting with oil pastels and practised different layering and blending techniques on leaves.

Week commencing 21.09.26 – Science

In Science this week, we went on a bug hunt in our school garden where we searched for, observed and safely released small invertebrates such as insects, spiders and woodlice.

Week commencing 14.09.2026 - Science

In Science this week, we explored classification keys. After brainstorming questions in our groups, we applied what we learnt to create our own keys for grouping and identifying various organisms.

Week commencing 14.09.2026 - English

This week in English, we have been continuing to write our adventure stories based on a fantastic book we have been reading called ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’ by Joe Todd-Stanton. One of our lessons focused on verbs. We worked in groups to sort a range of different verbs before using these in our writing.