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Meet & Greet 2024 -2025
Please click on the link below to view a set of slides that cover a variety of topics linked to starting a new school year.
Meet & Greet 2024 Presentation
Spring Term 2025
The Mayans
&
Making Connections!
Welcome back Year 4. We hope you've had a wonderful Christmas with lots of exciting memories to share. The spring term will have two topic themes: The Mayans & Making Connections. Firstly, the focus will have a historical theme, learning about a Non European Society uncovering the mysteries of the Mayan civilisation. Then, in term 4, the topic changes to a scientific one focusing on electricity and sound.
Term threes’s fascinating first topic takes a trip deep into the rainforests of Central America exploring Mayan ruins and from there embarking on a journey that will help the class uncover the life, society and civilisation of both ancient and modern Mayan people.
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In term four, the topic theme switches to science in which we will investigate electricity and sound. The class will learn: how circuits work; the differences between mains and battery-powered electricity; how to make a switch using knowledge of which materials are conductors, and which are insulators all of which will provide the class with many opportunities for investigations and experiments. During the unit on sound, the class will explore what sound is, how it is made and how the human ear works before having the chance to investigate how sound travels, how it can be blocked and how different pitches can be attained.
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History Knowledge Organiser - The Mayans.
Science Knowledge Organiser - Electricity.
Science Knowledge Organiser - Sound.
For further information about the subject coverage this term, please click on the link below.
Spring Term 2025 Curriculum Letter.
January 2025 - Art
Following their appraisal of LS Lowry's work last week, in today's art session, Year 4 had a go at replicating his painting of the 'match stick' people.
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January 2025 - PE
Year 4 enjoyed their session with Mr Strange from Carres Outreach who is focusing on Net & wall games techniques and skills. Today was all about movement of the player's feet and body in anticipation of where the ball will land.
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January 2025 - TT Rockstars!
Well done to this week's TT Rocker of the Week.
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Autumn Term 2024
Rotten Romans!
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Welcome back Year 4. We hope you've had a super summer break with lots of exciting memories to share and that you are feeling refreshed and ready for an exciting term of learning ahead. Our topic this term is a history themed one entitled, 'Rotten Romans' in which we'll be asking the question:
"What did the Romans Do For Us?"
Over the next 13 weeks, we will be taking a historical look back on how the Roman Empire was created; how the empire expanded across so many countries; daily life during Roman times contrasting Italy with England; Roman life in Lincoln and why our city was such an important staging post plus why Boudicca is so famous and her revolt so important. Through all of this, we will investigate how the Romans changed our lives and their legacy lives on today.
Please click on the links below for History and Science Knowledge Organisers. These pages will provide the key facts and knowledge that the children in Year 4 need to have. Please take the time to go through these with your children at various points during the term - it will support them and help them with their understanding of the learning. Thank you.
History Knowledge Organiser - The Romans.
Science Knowledge Organiser - Animals including Humans.
For further information about the subject coverage this term, please click on the link below.
Autumn Term 2024 Curriculum Letter.
December 2024 - Design Technology
Having finished our model aqueducts, Mr Baker agreed to join the class and test out the designs. There was a mix bag of results with lots to learn as future engineers. The finished work is amazing and real testament to the team spirit within each group. Great job year 4.
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Some of our finished models.
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December 2024 - TT Rockstars
Congratulations to the final TT Rocker of 2024. Great score achieved. Keep up the good work to all in Year 4.
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December 2024 - Christmas Lunch
Thank you to all the staff who made our Christmas lunch such an amazing affair. It was delicious.
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December 2024 - Maths
Our Maths focus currently is on multiplication and division - the understanding of what they are, how they are connected, the vocabulary linked to each and how they are calculated.
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December 2024 - TT Rockstars
Congratulations to the TT Rocker.
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December 2024 - Design Technology
Work begins on our DT progect: the design and build of a model aqueduct.
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December 2024 - Religious Education
As part of our R.E unit on 'Which part of the Nativity Story is the most important to Christians?' and the exploration of the symbolism behind parts of the story, the class learnt about Christingles and made their own plus we celebrated the start of Advent by opening the first windows of our Nativity scence Advent calendar.
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December 2024 - TT Rockstars
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November 2024 - St Andrew's Day Church Service
Salisbury class did a fantastic job of leading KS2 in our St Andrew's Day Church service. They retold the story of Andrew, his link with Jesus, why he is remembered and his importance to Scotland. Well done Y4.
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November 2024 - TT Rockstars
A huge well done to this week's TT Rocker.
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November 2024 - Design Technology
Today is DT we were learning about arches and how the Romans used them as part of their architecture design. We carried out an investigation as to which design was the strongest.
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November 2024 - TT Rockstars
Well done to this week's TT Rocker.
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November 2024 - Dodgeball Challenge
A few representatives from Year 4 attended a Dodgeball Challenge, organised by Carres Outreach, along with several other schools.
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November 2024 - Romans Trip
The class had the most amazing day at Lincoln Castle investigating further The Romans and life in Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) during Roman times. The children thoroughly immersed themselves in the various workshops.
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November 2024 - Design Technology
In DT we continued investigating Roman architecture by testing out different shaped columns.
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November 2024 - TT Rocker
Well done to this week's TT Rocker with 100% accuracy in the questions answered. Great job.
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October 2024 - Maths
Year 4 got to grips with column subtraction with exchanging. We saw the process in action by using the place value counters.
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October 2024 - TT Rockstars
Well done to our TT Rocker of the Week! A great total clocked up.
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October 2024 - Maths
Understanding column addition and regrouping through the use of place value counters.
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October 2024 - TT Rockstars
Congratulations to this week's TT Rocker.
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October 2024 - Art
In Art, we learnt how the Romans decorated their homes (villas) with mosaics and so the children have created some simple mosaic designs using a printing process to replicate the idea of small ceramic pieces.
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October 2024 - Computing
The focus in Computing is Hardware Investigators in which we looked at and learnt about the various components that make up a computer. The class then used their English and publishing skills to then create an information leaflet.
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October 2024 - Joe Roebuck
Year 4 really enjoyed their activity session along with the talk from olympic swimmer Joe Roebuck.
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September 2024 - Macmillan Coffee Morning
Salisbury class enjoyed taking part in the annual Macmillan Coffee Morning with a drink of squash and a slice of cake in support of this amazing organisation, raising a super amount whilst also living out our school vision of 'Everything we do, do with love'.
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September 2024 - P.E
In P.E we continued our focus of invasion games and concentrating on passing, finding space, intercepting and breaking the line all skills which are essential in future games.
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September 2024 - Computing
We have completed our topic book covers using our skills of publishing.
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September 2024 - TT Rockstars
Congratulations to our new TT Rocker of the Week.
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September 2024 - maths
In Maths we are learning to round 4-digit numbers to 10,100 & 1000 and are using metre tapes to help us place numbers to then use our skills and knowledge of place value.
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September 2024 - TT Rocker
A HUGE well done to our TT Rocker.
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September 2024 - TT Rocker
Congratulations to this week's TT Rocker!
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September 2024 - Maths
The class have been refreshing their knowledge of place value and working with 4-digit numbers. Today we looked at creating the numbers, partioning them and then creating them using place value counters - all good ground work as we towards using written methods of calculation.
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September 2024 - Science
The class started their Humans & Animals Science focus by gaining an understanding herbivores,carnivores and omnivores. The children were then tasked to decide which animals were which and record.
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Summer 2024 - Transition Day
The children finished off their day in Year 4 with some team building activities. These included moving through a set of hula-hoops whilst stood in a hand-held circle and the transporting of a tennis ball from point A to point B.
The criteria for the transportation were: the ball couldn’t touch the ground; the children couldn’t hold the ball whilst it travelled; the children had to use the two drainpipes provided to carry it and they weren’t allowed to move whilst the ball was in their section of the drainpipe.
Great to see so much ingenuity with the transportation; the superb communication and planning skills but most importantly the working together to be successful.
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Summer Term 2024
World Traveller.Com
Welcome back Year 4 to the Summer Term of 2024. I hope you had an 'eggcellent' Easter break and are refreshed ready for an 'eggciting' term and topic of learning.
The Summer term topic, in year 4, is geography based, themed, “World Traveller.Com” in which the class will be learning about the wider world with the aim of answering the question: ‘Who lives in a place like this?’. The class will learn what human and physical geography is, including the population and culture to mountains and rivers of a country. This will be followed by the children investigating these geographical aspects of a specific European country enabling them to compare and contrast with the UK, exploring the physical and human geography of each country, Children will also find out about how tourism affects each of the two countries.
For further information on the curriculum coverage, please click on the link below to access the year 4 Summer Term Curriculum Newsletter.
Summer Term 2024 - Curriculum Newsletter.
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July 2024 - DT
Our DT cooking sessions continued with the preparation and making of fajitas, ice cream and apple pie. All were delicious.
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July 2024 - Maths
Well done to this week's TT Rocker!
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July 2024 - DT
In DT this term we are focusing on cooking skills and preparing foods that are linked and have a historical background in America. S far, we have made cornbread, coleslaw and ice-cream.
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June 2024 - Maths
A huge well done to our TT Rocker of the Week.
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June 2024 - Church Schools Festival
Salisbury class enjoyed a fabulous day out at St Deny's Church in Sleaford where they took part in the Church Schools Festival with other Y4 children from various local schools. The children took part in various activities which included: church rubbings, puppetry, observational art, discussion group on Global Christianity and sign language of the Lord's Prayer. A wonderful day in which the whole class represented the school and themselves brilliantly.
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June 2024 - Computing
The current Computing focus is 'Spreadsheets'. The children are learning to understand what a spreadsheet is; some of the programing that makes this application so powerful; how to input data and then utilise their maths skills and knolwdge to create presented data in the form of a continuous line graph using spreadsheets.
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June 2024 - Maths
Congratulations to this week's TT Rocker.
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June 2024 - Energy from Waste Trip
The class thoroughly enjoyed their visit to the Energy from Waste centre where they learnt how general waste can be used to produce energy along with the importance of recycling and reusing. Fabulous ambassadors for the school and themselves.
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May 2024 - Maths
A huge well done to our new TT Rocker of the Week!
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May 2024 - Science
Y4 investigated the process of condensation as part of their States of Matter focus. They carried out a small investigation then made careful observations to find out what has to happen for condensation to occur.
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May 2024 - maths
Well done to this week's TT Rocker. Great job!
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May 2024 - P.E
In P.E, Mr Wilson from the Carres Outreach team is leading our Wednesday sessions with a focus on athletics. Mr Wilson has identified children within the class who have shown tremendous teamwork and great determination from the whole class. In recognition he has presented the class with certificates.
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May 2024 - Maths
Well done to this week's TT Rocker of the Week.
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May 2024 - English
In English we are currently learning to write a persuasive text based on a tourist holiday leaflet. Today's lesson was an experience day where the class enjoyed tasting various Italian food types to help them write with authority about eating out in Italy.
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April 2024 - Maths
Very well done to this week's TT Rocker.
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April 2024 - Music
Y4 enjoyed their first music session with Tom from Lincs Music Service. Today was about preparation for playing a tuned instrument and then having a go a learning 3 notes on the Toot. A fantastic lesson with great listening and super playing too.
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Spring Term 2024
Making Connections!
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Happy New Year Salisbury Class, hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. A warm welcome back to a new term and a new topic. During the Spring Term our topic is 'Making Connections' which is science based and will focus on light, electricity and sound enabling the class to develop scientific enquiry skills, make observations, predictions and conclusions. We will be using the theme of fairgrounds as the background to our learning.
For further information on the curriculum content and coverage, please click on the link below to access the Year 4 Spring Term Newsletter.
Curriculum Newsletter - Spring 2024
March 2024 - DT: Textiles
The class completed the sewing and decorating of their money containers. Please see below a few of our finished products.
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March 2024 - Maths
Well done to this week's Y4 TT Rocker of the Week who managed to achieve the highest percentage of answers correct.
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March 2024 - Maths
Well done to our TT Rocker of the Week.
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March 2024 - P.E
In Celebration Worship, Mrs Lear, who leads the swimming sessions, presented sets of achievement certificates to members of the class.
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March 2024 - Maths
Congratulations to our TT Rockers from last week and this week.
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March 2024 - Science
The class used their kn owledge of insulators and conductors to design, create and include a swithch within a simple electric circuit. A task that proved challenging initially but with some investigation and careful reflection the groups were all successful.
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March 2024 - Computing
The class completed their focus on animation by bringing together the various skills covered to make a small animation.
March 2024 - DT: Textiles
Y4, as part of their DT focus on textiles, learnt how to thread a needle and knot a thread plus had a go at practising running stitch.
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March 2024 - Science
Y4 enjoyed a science led workshop today from School of Noise. The children explored various activities investigating what sound is and the affects its vibrations have. Plus, they linked knowledge of sound to explore how it can be used, alongside technology, within industry, in particular films by recording sound effects and adding them to a film clip. Great morning of learning.
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March 2024 - Maths
Congratulations to our TT Rocker of the Week!
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February 2024 - PSHE
Our focus on Dreams and Goals in PSHE concluded with the class working as teams to achieve the goal of designing & making the Funniest Potato Person.
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February 2024 - Science
In science, the class have been learning what conductors and insulators are in relation to electricity. The children then went onto undertake an investigation to find out which materials are which using a simple electrical circuit.
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February 2024 - PSHE
Salisbury class have focused on Dreams & Goals in PSHE. The children were set the goal of taking part in a competition to create the Funniest Potato Person. The class had to work as a team to invent, design and make their person and overcome any difficulties by developing their sense of resilience.
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February 2024 - P.E
Y4 continued their focus of Net & Wall games in PE with a focus on badminton. Using skills adapted from Mr Wilson’s sessions, the children were challenged to both serve the shuttlecock and send it over the net to within a space on the court.
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February 2024 - Art
The children in y4 used their art session to add the base wash to their sketch before adding specific colour detail, for the various buildings, and the Lowry style ‘matchstick’ people. The class really enjoyed using the medium of watercolours and have produced stunning pieces of art. Look out for them once they are mounted and displayed in the junior corridor gallery.
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February 2024 - Maths
Well done to our new TT Rocker of the Week!
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February 2024 - Safer Internet Day
The class took part in a selection of computer based tasks and discussions on E-Safety and the importance of awareness of 'Phishing' on the internet; being careful about opening emails from unknown senders and being mindful of competitions with prizes that are 'too good to be true!'
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February 2024 - Handwriting
Many congratulations to our newest Pen Licence holders.
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February 2024 - Maths
A very BIG well done to this week's TT Rocker of the Week! Superb accuracy with 100% of questions answered correct.
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January 2024 - P.E
The class continued to enjoy their PE focus of Net & Wall Games with a fantastic activity which encouraged them to hit the ball and send it over the net.
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January 2024 - Art
The class have spent time analysing various artworks by LS Lowry in particular the colour palette he used. The children then investigated how to achieve the various colours with tints and tones that Lowry achieved using the 5 colours he always started with.
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January 2024 - Maths
Many congratulations to our TT Rocker of the Week.
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January 2024 - Science
Year 4 investigated the soundproofing qualities of various materials with the aim of discovering which one muffled the sound produced the best. Super conversation about what makes a Fair Test.
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January 2024 - P.E: Swimming
Year 4 are thoroughly enjoying their swimming lessons with confidence in the water growing and personal goals being worked towards each week.
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January 2024 - Maths
The class are currently learning to divide 2 and 3-digit numbers by 1-digit using a formal written method. Today we explored the proccess by using place value counters to help.
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January 2024 - Maths
Congratulations to our TT Rocker of the Week!
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January 2024 - English
The class are enjoying reading Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and to help with descriptive language, the children enjoyed various chocolate styles and tastes to create a vocab bank.
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January 2024 - Computing
In Computing, Year 4 had a go at animation and created some simple but effective moving images. Lots of laughter throughout the session especially when playing back the animation.
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January 2024 - Science
Y4 began their science topic today by investigating ‘What is Sound’. The class carried out various investigations to understand what sound is and what it looks like and how vibrations make the sound we hear.
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Home Learning
Salisbury class will be using Microsoft Teams as a form of communication between parents, children and their teacher. Please click on the links below for information on how to login and use as well as important policy guidelines on its use.
Information Letter
Microsoft Teams Policy
Teams Internet Safety Poster
How To Upload / View Documents on Teams
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