Fairfields Primary School
Year 4
Welcome to Year 4. Please check here for latest updates. We hope that we can build many memories before the children move to Year 5.
Classes.
Miss Young is teaching Canberra class (Monday-Thursday) and Mrs Dawson is teaching Canberra class on a Friday.
Mrs Nijhus is teaching New Delhi.
Welcome to year 4! We look forward to a fun year together.
Meeting with parents in transition week
Click here for the PowerPoint shown at the meeting
Autumn Term Curriculum Newsletter to parents 2023/2024
Click here for the Autumn newsletter
Click here for our timetable
Spring Term Curriculum Newsletter to parents 2023/2024
Click here for the Spring newsletter
Click here for our Spring timetable
Summer Term Curriculum Newsletter to parents 2023/2024
Click here for the Summer newsletter
Click here for the Summer timetable
Summer Term
It's time now to head off on our first year 4 residential at Ufton Court! Remember to sign the photo permissions form on Monday if you would like to see pictures of your year 4 child at Ufton Court.
One camera malfunctioned today so if photos of your children are missing we will make sure that group is featured tomorrow.
Quotes from the children:
'I liked the Earth Ball and how we had to push it round the circle and it helped our team work.'
Mya
'I liked the sling shot because it showed us how to work as a team and people had to catch the ball in the parachute.'
Isabella
'Everything here looks really nice!'
Andrei
'I really liked the ballistic challenge because of the way we tried to get them (balls) in the parachute.'
Esme
'The food is yummy!'
Mustafa
'The hide and seek was good because we won every time!'
Renee, Chloe and Izzy
'The food is tasty.'
Emilia
Spring Term
Welcome back year 4!
We began our term with lots of exciting activities based around amusement. The children investigated how they hear sound and made their lego ferris wheels spin on lego WEDO.
Amusement
The children enjoyed learning about the circus and its founder: Phillip Astley. Whilst he did not call it a circus himself, he came up with idea of putting different talent together to create a show. The children wrote a biography about Philip Asltley.
We then used our biography skills to write about our fictional character Wild Boy.
Have a look at the examples below.
We then enjoyed the story: Buddy's rainforest adventure.
The children first made orangutans, then looked at the countries orangutans come from. 
Have a go at the Powerpoint Quiz to see what they know!
The children enjoyed acting out the story and thinking about how the main character feels at different stages of the story.
They wrote persuasive letters to the forestry commission to put an end to deforestation.
Year 4 enjoyed Science. We have looked at the states of matter: Solids, liquids and gases, the water cycle and sound.
The children made musical instruments, string telephones, carbon dioxide (teacher lead) and experimented with fizzy drinks!
Autumn Term
Year 4 had a terrifying start to the year because a dragon had broken into the classroom to lay its eggs!
We had to decode a letter in Viking Runes to find out what we needed to do.
The children decoded the letter and were able to work out why the eggs were there and what they had to do.
On the Friday of the first week, the children got to meet Brent, the dragon whose eggs they had cared for.
In the second week, we acted out the scene from 'How to Train a Dragon' when the characters entered the dragon's cave.
Butser farm
Year 4 went on a trip to Butser farm. Here we learnt about the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings. We were archaeologists and sewers!
The children also enjoyed writing with grass quills and carving into chalk.
Residential information
Thank you so much for the support for the residential.
Here is the presentation powerpoint
Here is the letter about the trip
Here is the link to the Ufton Court parent page.
https://www.uftoncourt.org.uk/parent-s-hub
If you have any questions about the trip, please speak to a member of the year 4 team.
Extra activities
if you would like to do some more work, please see below.
You can log on to TTRockstars and test your times tables knowledge
Have a go at today's Wordle https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html
Extra word challenge - Can you work out four Wordles at once! https://www.quordle.com/
Geography- can you work out the country in today's Globle challenge? https://globle-game.com/
Can you guess the country based on the shape: https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
E-safety
Latest News
NEWS
Year 4 Residential good morning update
We have had a good sleep and are looking forward to a morning of activities today before returning back to school this afternoon and seeing you all. Pick up will be at the normal time from school. Please can you sign for any medication you handed in to us when you pick up your child. We look forward to seeing you later and telling you all about our trip.
Year 4 residential evening 2 update
We have had another super day today. We have been holding chickens, making fires, travelling on crates and climbing over the mighty challenge wall. We are really proud of the children for pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone, and they enjoyed themselves drinking the hot chocolate they made from the water they boiled. Now- fiesta night! See you tomorrow!
Year 4 residential evening update
We arrived safely and are having a great time. We have already fired balls using sling shots, balanced a giant ball above our heads and build land rafts. Ravenous children enjoyed their jacket potato lunches and ice lollies! All the children then went happily to their dorms and much fun was had making beds! We will try and get some photos on the website later tonight, after 8.00pm. See you all soon.
House Teams TT Rockstars Battle
Year 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 have been using TT Rockstars this year to learn and practice their times tables. They were excited to organise a TT Rockstars House Team battle before the end of the term, so we have arranged this for next week. From 9.00am Monday morning next week, until 3.00pm on Thursday, the children can collect points for their house teams by playing on TT Rockstars. The team with the most points will have an extra break on Friday afternoon to celebrate.
The children will have access at school to play TT Rockstars at various points during the day next week, but they may also collect points by playing at home too. The competition will be open each day between the house of 7.30am and 7.30pm, once the competition starts on Monday, so please feel free to encourage your child to have a go at home too.
We will let you know how we get on, and good luck to all the house teams!
World Maths Day
We ran two events using online maths subscription sites this week to celebrate World Maths Day. Very well done to years 3 and 5 for their 'Top of the Rock' battles against St Bede's in times tables. The top three children in each class have received certificates. Also, well done to the 1000 Point Club members from years 4 and 5 who completed 20 challenges on Mathletics. Alex was highest in year 4 and Emily was highest in year 5. Finally, year 6 also competed in the Mathletics challenge and the highest scorer was Samuel. In this event, Fairfields came 138th in the world and 41st in the country!
