🌟 Year 4 – Weekly Update 🌟

 We’ve had a fantastic week in Year 4, filled with creativity, learning, and exciting experiences!

📚 English

In English, we continued exploring our class text The Crown. The children worked brilliantly on using expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, and similes to enhance their descriptive writing. It’s been wonderful to see their confidence grow as they experiment with rich, imaginative language.

➗ Maths

In Maths, we moved on to our new topic: area. The class enjoyed working practically and visually as they learned how to calculate and compare the area of different shapes.

🎨 Art

Art has been especially fun this week as we continued decorating our robins. The children have shown great attention to detail, and their designs are looking fantastic!

🕌 RE / Visitor

We were delighted to welcome Sherene, who visited us to talk about her Islamic faith. The children asked thoughtful questions and showed great respect and curiosity during the session.

🖼️ Friday Trip

To finish the week, we visited the art centre to see the birds we created earlier this term. The children loved seeing their work displayed in a real gallery setting—such a proud moment for us all!

Well done, Year 4, for another great week of hard work and enthusiasm! 🌟

Autumn 2, Week 2 in Year 4

What an Amazing Week!

We’ve had another fantastic week in class, full of resilience, excitement and lots of happy faces. The children have shown such enthusiasm in everything they’ve tackled, and we’re incredibly proud of them.

Maths

In Maths, we continued our work on the column method for both addition and subtraction. The children are becoming much more confident with setting out their calculations and understanding the steps involved. It’s been wonderful to see their persistence paying off!

English

In English, we began exploring our new book The Crown. The week started with great excitement when a mysterious scroll appeared in the classroom, asking the children to make a crown to help save the girl in the story. We read the opening pages together and made predictions about what might happen next. The children were buzzing with ideas!

Science

Our Science learning focused on changing states of matter. We explored how materials change when heated or cooled and carried out an investigation using a thermometer. The children loved making predictions, observing changes, and discussing their results like real scientists.

PE

PE was definitely a highlight this week! The children practised handstands, headstands, and both forward and backward rolls. Their confidence and control have grown so much—well done, everyone!

Reminder: If your child is taking part in the Rugby event, they need to come into school wearing their PE kits and will need football boots as it is tag rugby.

See you in the morning!

Year 4 team 

Welcome back Year 4

🌟 Welcome Back to Autumn Term 2! 🌟

We hope you all had a lovely break and are ready for another exciting half term ahead!

Just a few reminders for the coming weeks:

• PE will now take place on Wednesdays – please make sure children come to school with their PE kits to be kept in their lockers.

• Swimming will continue on Thursdays, so don’t forget swimming kits and towels.

• Reading records should be brought in on Fridays – thank you to everyone who’s been keeping up with reading at home!

We’re still waiting for the whole class to have their reading records back in — let’s see if we can make it happen this week!

Looking forward to seeing everyone bright and early in the morning.

The Year 4 Team

Evacuated!

 Today, we were delighted to welcome Cheselbourne First School for an immersive World War Two Experience Day at The Prince of Wales School. The children arrived as evacuees, stepping back in time to discover what life was like during wartime Britain.

Throughout the day, pupils took part in a range of hands-on activities that brought history to life:

• 🌱 Digging for Victory with Gardener Jim – learning how people grew their own food during the war.

• 🍰 Rationing Baking with Mrs Bernard – finding out how to make tasty treats with limited ingredients.

• 🪖 WW2 Artefacts with Mrs Collett – exploring real wartime objects and hearing the fascinating stories behind them.

• ⚽ WW2 Games – enjoying traditional playground games from the 1940s.

• 🏫 WW2 Classroom Experience with Miss White – stepping into a 1940s-style classroom for a taste of wartime schooling.

The children (and staff!) had a fantastic time dressing up, learning through play, and experiencing what life might have been like for children during the Second World War.

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make the day so special — especially our visiting teachers and our wonderful pupils for their enthusiasm and curiosity throughout the day.

WW2 Day – Monday

WW2 Day – Monday

We’re excited to announce that on Monday we’ll be holding a World War II Day in school!

Throughout the day, children will take part in a variety of engaging activities including baking, gardening, VE Day games, classroom projects, and exploring WW2 artefacts.

We’ll also be joined by another school for the event, giving children the chance to share their learning and experiences together.

To help bring history to life, we ask that all children come dressed in their evacuee costumes for the day.

We’re really looking forward to an exciting and memorable day of learning!

Any question please email.

The Year 4 Team

Farm visit, author visit and Harvest Festival

Yesterday, the children had a fantastic time at the farm, stepping back in time to experience what life was like as an evacuee during World War Two. They took part in a range of hands-on activities such as collecting wood for the cookers, and even making soap out of conkers and ivy leaves! Everyone rose to the challenge brilliantly and showed great teamwork and enthusiasm throughout the day.

A special highlight from today was meeting author Chris Smith, who shared his inspiring journey to becoming an author. The children were fascinated to hear about his experiences and left feeling inspired to write their own stories.

We’re now looking forward to our Harvest Festival tomorrow at 9:15am, and we warmly invite you to join us. Afterwards, please come into the classroom to taste the biscuits we made. The perfect way to celebrate a week full of learning, creativity, and community spirit!

See you all tomorrow!

The Year 4 Team