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

Welcome back!

It has been lovely to see everyone again after the half term break and we have all made a fantastic start to Autumn 2.

Next week in English, we will be continuing to immerse ourselves in explanation texts. We will write some entertaining sentences to explain how a dishwasher works, using the imaginary explanation of this process in the book, ‘Until I met Dudley.’ We will also write to inform, and write a short explanation using technical vocabulary and accurate information, before reflecting on the differences between the text types. We will focus on the use of subordinate clauses and adverbial phrases, and check the accuracy of our punctuation.

In Mathematics we will continue to work on our understanding of perimeter as the total distance around a 2D shape. Throughout the lessons, we will develop the problem-solving skills needed to find the length of unknown sides when given the overall perimeter and other known sides. Additionally, we will learn that the perimeter of a regular polygon can be calculated through multiplication rather than repeated addition. Finally, we will also explore the inverse relationship between these operations, recognising that the individual side length of a regular polygon can be calculated by division whenever the total perimeter is known.

In addition to this, we are also looking forward to our exciting curriculum learning! Next week in Science, we will start the lesson by looking at a photo of Gadebridge Park and discuss the changes which happen as the seasons alter. We will then work in groups and became habitat detectives in the school grounds where we will look for the available food and shelter we could find for local habitats on the top playground, lower playground and school garden. Back in the classroom we will work together to write down ‘what would happen if’ questions about the animals in the school garden if the season changes and carry out a P4C discussion based on our favourite question. In DT, we are excited to continue our new topic and begin designing our own Christmas decorations using annotated sketches. We will consider the purpose of our products and think about the colours, shapes and embellishments we are going to use, whilst also reflecting on our intended users.

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 02.11.26

This week, we have been exploring the digital world around us! In our computing lesson, we looked at what technology really means, where we spot it in our everyday lives and the clever ways in which it helps us at school, at home and beyond. Working with learning partners, we built on our mind maps capturing brilliant examples of technology used across the school, in our homes and in the local community. In Science, we worked in groups and became habitat detectives in the school grounds where we looked for the available food and shelter, we could find local habitats.

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.