English We have had a fantastic week learning to describe settings from our stories. We have practiced using verbs and adverbs (the birds flew gracefully), expanded noun phrases (the majestic, snowy mountains) and fronted adverbials (Behind the house, there was a garden). We use these skills to r...

Here is what we have been up to in Year 4 this week. English In English this week we have continued reading our book called ‘Tales of Wisdom and Wonder’. We have read two new short stories called ‘Monkey and Papa God’ and ‘The Blind Man and the Hunter’. We...

Wow what an absolute fabulous week we have had! Thank you everyone who popped along for our come dine with me, the children absolutely loved it! We have had the best time getting stuck into some Easter celebrations. The children have enjoyed admiring all the wonderful Easter bonnets that have bee...

English This week we have begun learning how to write a newspaper report. We started by looking at a variety of different newspapers and identifying their features. We discovered that a newspaper report should have all these features: - It should be written in the past tense and written in thi...

Weekly News 01.03.24 English In English this week, we have continued reading ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. In it, we learnt that Ahmet is a refugee and so we started our week learning more about what ‘refugee’ means and why it is different to someone leaving their...

English In English this week, have being writing out own poems using figurative language – similes, metaphors and personification. We have looked at a poem about a volcano and about an earthquake. For our end of unit ‘Show Piece’ we wrote about a pebble and the journey it could...