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, Mr Dakin and Mrs Elson

Welcome back! It has been lovely to see everyone this week.

In English this week, we looked at different Greek Gods and Goddesses, and wrote about their qualities and why we liked them. We also started learning the Greek myth, Daedalus and Icarus. We enjoyed the story, and writing and drawing it as a comic strip. We then made notes to write a summary, focussing on adverbial phrases and subordinate conjunctions. Next week, we will be working on reading. We will be practising our VIPERS Skills: Vocabulary, Infer, Predict, Explain, Retrieve and Summarise.

This week in Maths, we have been learning all about symmetry and what it means when something is symmetrical. We have completed some symmetrical patterns, explored lines of symmetry in 2 congruent shapes and made folds on lots of different 2D shapes to explore the line or lines of symmetry each shape has. Additionally, we have used mirrors to help us check which shapes have a line or lines of symmetry. It has also been the week in which we have completed our Multiplication Table Check (MTC). Well done everyone for working so hard on their times tables and putting in their best effort on the test to show what they have learned this year. Next week is Assessment Week and we will have the chance to consolidate key concepts and show the progress we have made this year in our Maths.

As Geographers, we have been identifying the position and significance of latitude, longitude, the Equator, the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones, using maps, atlases and globes. We then progressed to having a go at identifying and explaining the positions of different countries on the globe. In addition, we have used grid co-ordinates to locate positions on a map.

In Art we explored examples of Ancient Greek pots, noticing the colours, shapes and decorations on each one. We then sketched our ideas for own designs in our sketch books; making choices about our pot shape, patterns and story decoration. We will be going on to create our designs out of clay in a few weeks time!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

PE days for year 4 will be on Mondays and Tuesdays

Please bring in library books on a Friday