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

Another busy week in Year 4!

Next week in English, we will be looking at the poem, ‘A Small Dragon’ by Brian Patten. We will investigate the poem’s vocabulary and focus on how adjectives are used to describe nouns, and how we can add description with prepositional phrases. We will then write our own free-verse poems to read aloud.

In Maths next week, we will be applying our knowledge of column addition and column subtraction, in order to add and subtract with sets of numbers up to 4 digits long. We will revise our knowledge of the words ‘added, sum, minuend, subtrahend and difference’ and use these words to help us with our calculations. We will focus on lining up our digits accurately in their columns in order to reach the correct answer. We will also continue to work hard on our 4 times tables and after half term, will be progressing on to our 8s!

We are also looking forward to completing some more of our lessons from the wider curriculum. In Art, we will begin working on our final pieces in the style of Henri Rousseau, applying the skills and techniques we have been looking at in class and using the mediums of paints and watercolours. We will continue to learn new skills whilst enjoying our ukuleles in Music and as Scientists, we will learn how to group and classify a variety of plants using observable characteristics.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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 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.