Year 4 had a fun afternoon exploring the key events from the Viking period. We stared by creating a human timeline, investing how dates climb in chronological order. They worked well as part of a group discussing the order of dates with similar numbers. We then created our own timelines back in the classroom.

Year 4 developing their sketchbooks using a range of skills and mixed media as part of our Explore, What on earth is going on?

Good evening everyone.
Please find below a copy of the Learning letter outlining the learning for this times Explore unit which is titled, 'What have you done today to make you feel proud?'
Homework continues to be listening to your child read (up to 3 times per week), completing tasks on Edshed (spellings) as well as going on Times Table Rockstars up to 3 times a week and remembering to record it all in their planners!

Thank you and have a good evening
Miss Foster

Multiplication Tables Check

This activity exactly mirrors the 'Multiplication Tables Check' that will be given to children at the end of Year 4. They are tested on their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12. There are twenty-five questions and children have six seconds to answer each question and three seconds between questions. The questions are generated randomly using the same rules as the 'Multiplication Tables Check' (see below).

Results can be downloaded and printed at the end of the test.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/ 

Year 4 practice for the multiplications checkPlease get your children to access this as regularly as possible in preparations for their times table check in the new year

What on earth is going on?

Welcome to 2025!

Below is a copy of the parent letter outlining the learning for our next explore.

Giuseppe Acrimboldo

We have been studying the Italian artist Giuseppe Acrimboldo and his unusual style of creating portraits by recreating features using fruit and vegetables. Here we are having a go at recreating some of his famous works using oil pastels.

A Taste of Italy

We have had a very exciting day in Year 4. This morning started with all of us making pizza and salad, a traditional dish from Italy. We all had a go at chopping the different ingredients before selecting our favourite toppings and constructing our pizzas. While these were cooking, we researched other traditional foods and drinks still enjoyed by Italians today.

We then invited our adults to join us for a tasting session in the afternoon. Needless to say, the pizzas went down a treat!

This morning, Year 4 have been learning Roman Numerals through singing and actions!!

All good fun! ����

Year 4 testing out our knowledge of Place value by playing the 'Nasty Game' . Lots of fun and very competititive too!

Barnsley Music Hub

Below is a copy of the website that the children can use to access music notation and video clips to support with their cornet and brass lessons.

https://www.barnsleymusichub.com/brass 

Year 4 having a wonderful music lesson, learning how to use the mouth piece correctly as well as looking after their instrument! Lovely to see them enjoying music.

As part of our English project 'Journey to Mars', Year 4 have been learning some subject specific vocabulary e.g.astronaut, mission, adaptable etc.To support us with this, we used spelling aerobics to help us make links between the size and shape of letters as well as syllables and sounds. A fun way to learn some tricky words.

Our first explore is calles 'I wonder' and sees us learning about the European country of Italy as part of the geography foucus. Below is a copy of the Parent letter outlining our learning intentions.

Welcome back to a new acadenic year here at Summerfields. We hope that you have all had a lovely holiday and are ready for some fresh new challenges as you move up a year group?

Below, is another copy of the 'Meet the Teacher' presentation for you to refer back at anytime. Included are the days for PE, Swimming and music lessons plus, the format and expectations for homework in Year 4.

Here's to a super year

Miss Foster

Welcome to Year 4 2024/25 and class Italy

Year 4 had a wonderful surprise to the start of the week when they were paid a visit by Nigel from Imagination Gaming. We enjoyed a session playing a variety of ‘problem solving, team building and strategy based games.’

The discussions taking part by each group was wonderful to hear!

 World Mental Health DayDay
As part of World Mental Health Day, Year 4 have taken part in a variety of activities to build upon their existing knowledge. We have looked at the meaning of Mental Health and have discussed that it is something that we all have. We also looked at how it might present itself in different people as well as different ways that we could improve our own MH through; exercise, eating a balanced diet, taking time out for mindfulness activities and, of course, talking to a trusted person.
Don”t to forget to “Get Talking!”

Miss Foster

Rabbit Ings

As part of our Explore ‘Who do you think you are?’ Year 4 spent the day at our local country park, Rabbit Ings. We had a great day pond dipping, investigating the local area and a mini beast hunt. Plus, the weather was perfect too!

We have been looking at paintings by the French Impressionist artist, Claude Monet. Using oil pastels and water colours we then had a go recreating our own versions 

Huge congratulations from all at Summerfields to Katie Wilson in year 4. Katie was one of four winners from over 300 entries across Barnsley who entered Barnsley Rockley Rotary Club’s Art competition. The presentation evening was held at the Metrodome and was judged by Barnsley’s own artist Ashley Jackson .Congratulations Katie well deserved.

Multiplication Tables Check

This activity exactly mirrors the 'Multiplication Tables Check' that will be given to children at the end of Year 4. They are tested on their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12. There are twenty-five questions and children have six seconds to answer each question and three seconds between questions. The questions are generated randomly using the same rules as the 'Multiplication Tables Check' (see below).

Results can be downloaded and printed at the end of the test.

Determined Dolphins Class Blog

www.determineddolphinsy4.com/

If you would like to brush up on your brass knowledge and skill, click on the link below: 

www.barnsleymusichub.com/brass

Hello Year 4,

Here is a panorama of the classroom. It is set up ready for you to come in to on Thursday.

We are very excited to see you and we cannot wait to welcome you back. We are going to have a fantastic year. 

I don't want you to have any worries about coming back to school but if you do, you can write these down and we can go through them on Thursday morning.

See you soon,

Mrs Whitehead, Mrs Brown and Mrs Lloyd

Any work for children at home that is put on to class pages will be to print off at home only. 
 

Due to health and safety issues we will not be providing paper copies for children at home.

You can put your answers on a sheet and take a photo to send in or put them onto a word document and email in. 
 

Thanks 

Message from Mr. Francis

Hope you are all ok. As you know we were suppose to be going to the Metrodome as part of a music festival. It will not be the experience we had hoped for but if you follow this You Tube guide you can join in from your homes. Hopefully see you all soon. 

Due to updated government guidance we can no longer provide additional reading books for home. Please read the books you have, look at magazines, share stories from your bookshelf and use our online links to support your child’s reading.

Any books returned to school will be left in a box until we can clean them for the safety of staff and pupils. Many thanks for your continued support in these difficult times.

Welcome to class Antarctica, I am Mrs. Wakefield. In this class, we are supported by Mrs. Lloyd and Mrs. Brown. We have a student teacher in our class too called Mr. Watling, he will be working with us until June.

Our PE day is Wednesday. 

We have lots of exciting activities happening in year 4, so keep an eye out and we will update the page regularly.

Home learning - 20th April 

Good morning Year 4. Hope you are all well and having fun with your families. We are all missing you at school and hope to see you all very soon. I have made a padlet for us, on it, you can add comments or pictures so why not add what you have been up to. Just click on the link. 

Reading - I have found a reading calender, have a look at all the different activities and see how many you can do before the end of April. I will add a new one for May. 

Maths - Keep working on your Times Table Rockstars - get some rock music on and see how many you can get right before the song runs out. Mr. Marsh has added some White Rose maths things too to the Home Learning page so make sure you have a look at these.

Literacy - Think about when we have learnt about verbs and adverbs. Have a look at the Animal Town sheets can you complete the Sentences Challenge sheet? Have a go at the other sheets too. 

Science - I thought it would be fun to look at sound (sorry mums and dads!!). Have a look at how sounds are made and then see if you can make some sounds using a homemade musical instrument - I have included some photographs to give you some ideas. 

Enjoy xx

How many of these can you work out? Send me your answers through the school email address

Good morning year 4,

Just wanted to say hello to you all and hope you are all ok and having lots of fun at home with your families. If you have been doing anything really exciting then send a picture to the school email address (office@summerfields@pioneeract.org.uk) and I will add them to our class page for everyone else to see. 

We have also been thinking it would be really nice if you wanted to, you could write a diary of your day or week. Let us know what you have done etc and again I will share these on the website. 

I am really looking forward to hearing and seeing all about what you are up to. 

Love

Mrs. Wakefield xxx

Useful websites

These websites are really good for maths and literacy 

Year 4 residential to Robinwood

Parents if you'd like to follow our page on Twitter, we will give updates on there and here as much as possible. Find us at Mrs Wakefield@summerprimary6

Day 3

After another good night's sleep and a full English breakfast, stream and avalanche are caving and then canoeing before the challenge course while iceberg are on the trapeze before diving into the piranha pool and the challenge course. We are having lunch and then heading down to the coach. See you all soon 

Karate 

This morning we have had taken part in a karate taster session - it was lots of fun!

How do our actions affect others?

We are learning a lot from the Victorians this half term and how their acts affected Britain and how it is still affecting our lives today. We have looked at Queen Victorian and what she was like and what she did. We have looked at the workhouses, colonisation, inventions and lots, lots more. 

This week we have been looking at Gingerbread. During the Victorian period, gingerbread was regularly eaten and enjoyed. We tried out the recipe and enjoyed eating the gingerbread we made as much as the Victorians! 

Brass lesson 

Today is our second brass lesson. Today the children have been playing along to Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. They have been learning about how to look after their instruments and how to keep the valves clean and smooth. 

Digestive system 

Using a cream cracker, banana, orange juice and water we created a digestive system. We had lots of fun digesting the food and removing the waste from our stomach. 

Hello and welcome back Year 4. I am ready for a fantastic and fun year where we are going to learn lots and lots! Don't forget if you need anything or have any questions to come and find me and I will try to help.

Don't forget parents, there is a 'Meet the Teacher' meeting on Thursday 12th September. I am looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible. I understand that some people will not be able to attend the meeting so I will add the PowerPoint on here. Any questions, please come and see me.

Today we have had our first brass lesson - we have given the children their rental agreement for you to sign. Once this is returned to school, they will then be able to bring their instrument home to practise!!

Day 4

Day 3

Day 2

Day 1

Welcome to the Clever Crocodile Class 2018! 

I am really looking forward to Year 4 and I hope you are too.

Our first topic is shared through the whole school... hidden TREASURE! We are focussing on the Ancient Egyptians as our topic and will be becoming archaeologists exploring the treasures of the past.

Welcome to Year 4!

Snow Day Homework

Task 1

I hope you have enjoyed some time playing in the snow.

As we missed World Book Day on Thursday I would like you to ask someone to take a photo of you reading your favourite book in an interesting place.  You can decide where this is.  Please bring a photo into school to show the rest of the class.

Task 2

I would also like you to do some writing to share with the class.

Imagine you are going to be trapped inside school because of the snow for 2 whole weeks.  Which 10 items would you bring with you to help you survive and why would you bring each item?

I look forward to hearing about your fun in the snow on Monday.

Miss Humphreys.

Thank you!

On behalf of Class 4, I would just like to say thank you to all of the adults who attended the Cober Hill assembly on Tuesday.  I am sure you will agree that the children had fun whilst they were away and that they learnt a lot at the same time.

Thank you

Miss Humphreys

Just a reminder that the Class 4 Cober Hill assembly will take place on Tuesday 27th February at 1.45pm.

Please return the reply slips to let us know whether you will be attending or not and how many seats you need.

Thank you

Miss Humphreys and Class 4

Cober Hill 2018

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Smile Day

Yesterday the whole school enjoyed the first Smile day!  What an exciting and fun day it was.  All of the children I spoke to really enjoyed the day and the variety of activities.  It was nice to see Year 4 mixing with all year groups throughout the day.  Check out the Headteacher's page to see some of the photos from the day.

Writer of the week

The Writer of the week award goes to Skye this week.  She produced a brilliant non-chronological report.  I was very impressed.  Well done Skye.

Pupil of the Week

This week's pupil of the week is Gracie.  Gracie always does the right thing and is a kind and friendly member of the class.  Well done Gracie.

Outstanding Writer

This week Dylan was chosen as outstanding writer due to his much improved handwriting and letter formation.  Dylan has worked really hard ensuring that his descenders fall below the line and that his letters are the same size.  Well done Dylan.

Pupil of the Week

This week Thomas was picked as pupil of the week due to his outstanding work ethic.  He always puts in 100% effort and wants to do his best.  Well done Thomas.