Year 4 - Miss Humble
Welcome to Year 4!
Some important reminders:
PE is on a Tuesday and the children can wear their PE kit all day.
Water bottles should be brought into school every day.
Reading books and diaries should be brought into school every day. Please encourage your children to read at least three times a week! Please sign your child’s diary when you have listened to them read.
Spellings will be tested on a Friday and new spellings given out weekly.
Dates:
Monday 6th October 2025: St Aidan's Church Visit
Tuesday 14th October 2025: Ushaw College Trip
Monday 24th November 2025: Y4 Arctic Day
Wednesday 22nd October 2025: Harvest Festival
Autumn 1
In Year 4 this term, the children will be learning all about the Mayan civilization. We will cover this topic in both English and History. The children will be reading the Rain Player book which will provide inspiration and ideas for their writing.
In Science, we will be learning about the different states of matter and the children will learn to group materials into solids, liquids and gases. In RE, we will learn all about baptism and the Holy Trinity and in Art, we will be introduced to the artists Quentin Blake and Petra Palmeri.
Quentin Blake Petra Palmeri
This half term the children will be focusing on Dance during P.E. They will work with partners, in groups and as a class to create dances using movement patterns to structure the dance phrases. They will refine, repeat and remember dance phrases and dances.
Backhouse Park
A beautiful morning for Y4EH at Backhouse Park! The children enjoyed taking in the outdoors and seasonal scenery as well as collecting leaves for our change in seasons artwork 
Ushaw college
A fantastic day for Y4EH at Ushaw College! The children enjoyed taking in the beautiful architecture of Ushaw's chapels and stained glass windows, before having a go at creating some windows of their own!
RE
St Aidan's Church
Year 4 had a lovely visit to St Aidan's Church where Father David taught us all about Baptism in the Christian Church, this linked in with our recent RE lessons on the topic of Baptism. The children learnt about the importance of the Holy Water and its purpose in the ceremony. The children also had the opportunity to hold the christening shell and candle, as well as witnessing a christening take place... of a minion that is. After watching the ceremony the children were able to take a look around the church and have the opportunity to speak to Father David about any questions they had.
Maths
In Maths, the children will be recognising the place value of each digit in four-digit numbers as well as composing and decomposing four-digit numbers using standard partitioning.
Science
We had a fabulous time experimenting with slime in science! We discussed that slime is neither a solid or a liquid and is in fact a non-Newtonian fluid! ⭐️
During our science lessons, we have discussed the three states of matter and asked 'is it a solid, liquid or gas?'. We have completed research and carried out experiments in order to know which materials are solids, liquids or gases. We have been able to describe the properties of each state and can show the difference between the particles. We recently completed an experiment to see whether or not the size of an ice cube impacts how fast it melts and recorded our findings in our workbooks.
Ice experiment Butter experiment
Art
The children had a lovely craft afternoon creating some Maya masks linked to our topic on the Maya civilisation this term! 🎭🎨 During the lesson, we discussed that Maya Masks played a central role in Maya culture. They were made for a variety of occasions and purposes and were even used to decorate temples. Masks were often inspired by animals and they were vibrant and colourful. The animal masks represented the spirits e.g. they often associated strong kings with jaguars.
