Year 4 Archive

Summer already?!

The first week of Summer term is already over! We have hit the ground running this week, launching into our new ‘Inventions’ project which will be exploring the...

What an APPEALing week!

Wow, we were impressed with the Year 4’s writing this week! After learning about formal and informal language, we spent some time writing appeals to the Prime Minister...

World Book Day!

We have had an exciting and busy day in Year 4 this week. Thursday was World Book day and we all enjoyed sharing our favorite books and looking...

Refugees

This week we have started our new project which is  a geography led project on Refugees. We have started by learning the difference between a refugee and migrants,...

Literacy legends

This week we had the privilege of not one, but TWO incredible literary visitors to the school. The first was Matthew Goodfellow, who led some workshops on poetry...

Boudica Boudica Boudica!!

We have another wonderful week n year 4 – full of creativity, learning and exploration. We have focused on the value of Empathy this week and it has...

The Romans Invade!

We have continued the story Queen of Darkness this week, with such exciting scenes! We have got to the part where the Romans have invaded Britain and Boudicca...

Queen of Darkness

We have had a wonderful (but cold) second week of the Spring term. All classes started Forest school this week and it was great to see the children...

The Red Tree

Welcome back! We hope you have had a lovely holiday and restful break over the Christmas period. We have enjoyed welcoming the children back to class and launching...

‘Twas the week before Christmas (holidays)!

We have really enjoyed learning with Year 4 this half term. For those of you who were able to make it to Family Friday, we hope you will...

Biome experts

We have had the most wonderful week in Year 4, full of writing and getting in to the festive spirt. In English, we have be writing our biome...

We have had the most wonderful week in Year 4! In English we have continued our work looking at Non-Fiction texts. We are going to be writing our...

Temperate Forest Biome

This week has been an exciting one with lots of amazing learning happening! We have started a new Guided Reading text called ‘Twitch’ which links to our biomes...

New Project: Biomes

This week was the first of our new Geography-led project on Biomes. Children have explored the different biomes found all over the world and researched the climate and...

Firebird!

This week was Arts Week, and what a week! The children have had such an amazing time learning about the Russian ballet ‘The Firebird’ and the composor, Igor...

Windrush Adventure and Greek Play!

Thank you all for your help and support with the Greek play. We have been so proud of Year 4 for their perseverance in learning lines and confidence...

Which drink can make you loose your teeth?

What a fantastic week it has been in Year 4. We’re delighted to share our latest activities and a sneak peek of what’s coming up next week. In...

The lost Chapter!

What a wonderful week of learning we have all had in Year 4! Lots of us have started rehearsing for our Ancient Greek performances – we already cannot...

Digestion detectives!

What a wonderful week we have had in Year 4! We have been blown away with the children’s passion and dedication to their learning. In English, we have...

Let’s become Historians!

Year 4 have had another brilliant week! We have enjoyed getting to know our new topic in more detail and cannot wait to see what we discover next....

Wonderful week 2

We have had such a wonderful second week in Year 4, it has been lovely to see the children’s passion for learning shining through and we cannot wait...

Welcome to Year 4!

The Year 4 team are delighted to welcome you all (parents and pupils) to our Year 4 community. This blog will be an essential tool to support your...

What a week we’ve had in Year 4!   In English, we looked back at our year and reflected on all the amazing topics we have covered. From...

Let’s test our lung capacity!

We have had a wonderful week learning in Year 4 this week! In English, we have been using the story of ‘Arthur and the Golden Rope’ to write...

Let’s story map!

It has been a hot but wonderful week in Year 4. We have been impressed (as we always are) with the dedication and passion that the children have...

Great Summer Learning

We have had an amazing week in Year 4! It was incredible to see everyone so determined to learn even when the heatwave hit us! From new Maths...

Bring on Summer 2!

It may have been a short first week back but that did not stop Year 4 from doing some brilliant learning! It was lovely to see all the...

A wonderful end of the year!

What a wonderful end to the half term we have had in Year 4! We all ended the week with our computing showcases, it was great to see...

Circuits circuits circuits!!

Our first 5 day week in a while and it has been wonderful to see the passion for learning seeping from all of the Year 4 classrooms! In...

Engineers and Designers

We have had an exciting week of learning in Year 4, getting stuck in with our projects and exploring what it means to be an engineer and a...

Coronation Celebrations!

We have had a wonderful week of learning and celebration this week in Year 4. Although the week was slightly shorter we have been blown away with the...

Caythorpe!!

What can we say, we have had the most amazing week in Year 4! The children were a credit to the school and we were blown away by...

Bring on the Summer term!!

We have had a lovely first week back at school, it has been wonderful to hear all about the children’s Easter adventures. We have had a very busy...

A wonderful end to Spring term!

We have been overwhelmed with pride thinking about all of the wonderful learning that has taken place this term. As always, Year 4 have blown us away with...

Stopping Deforestation

Another incredible week in Year 4, everyone tried their hardest and created some incredible pieces of work!   In English, we continued preparing our presentations about the Mesozoic...

Geologists at the ready!

Year 4 have been amazing this week – what lucky teachers we are to have them in our classes! Even though our week looked a little different, the...

Aspiring Songwriters

We had an incredible week! Year 4 worked super hard learning about the Paleozoic era and all the different periods inside it. We explored the evolution of fish,...

Book week!

What a wonderful week of learning we have had this week, the children have loved getting to know our new topic more and we cannot wait to see...

A wonderful first week back!

We have had a lovely week back and have been incredibly impressed with the children’s dedication to their learning. We have been spotting the school values everywhere! In...

Final week!

We had an incredible end of Half Term week in Year 4!   In English, we finished reading “Queen of Darkness” and enjoyed discussing the different twists and...

Historical music makers!

We have been so impressed with the children’s dedication this week. In English, we continued exploring the book “Queen of Darkness”. We started the week by looking at...

Wonderful Week!

We had a productive and fun week in Year 4! We started the week with a wonderful poetry workshop from the one and only Michael Rosen – what...

Times Tables and Traditional Tales

Yet again, another busy and productive week in year 4! In English we started to read our new text ‘Queen of Darkness’ which is a historical fiction book...

Let’s explore Ancient Rome!

What a wonderful week we have had. We have enjoyed our first week back of full learning and loved getting stuck into our new topic, Ancient Rome!  ...

First week back!

Happy new year and welcome back! It has been lovely seeing everyone’s smiling faces back at school this week. The children have returned with such enthusiasm to learn...

Last week!

What a wonderful final week we have had in Year 4. We want to take the time to thank all of the children and their people at home...

Christmas comes to UCPS!

What a great week we had! It seems crazy that we are already at the end of the first term of Year 4! We finished our English and...

An impressive week!

We have had a wonderful week in Year 4, it was lovely to share how proud we are of the children during learning conversation and family Friday! What...

A wonderful week!

We had a very positive week in year 4! We continued our school books and we are now getting to the ending of both our English and Guided...

Appeal writing!

We have a had another wonderful week in Year 4! In English, we have continued reading or class book, ‘The Boy at the Back of the class’ and...

Week 3!

What a wonderful week of learning we have had this week. We have been impressed by the children’s dedication and creativity in all areas! This week In English,...

Week 2!

As always, we had a wonderful learning week in Year 4! We have continued exploring our “refugees” topic. In English, where we continued reading our class book “The...

Fabulous first week back

What a brilliant start back to term we have had in year 4! We have started our new project all about refugees this week looking a the terms...

Groovy Greeks!

Wow! What brilliant performances we have had this week. The year 4 children worked incredibly hard and put on shows to be proud of! Thank you for all...

Wonderful writers and awesome acting!

We have had a wonderful week in Year 4 – we are very excited to show you our performances next week! In Art, we have been working on...

Ancient Greece!!

Year 4 have had a wonderful week full of learning, singing and preparation for our show! We have been blown away with everyone’s brilliant attitudes and have been...

What a wonderful week we have had!

We continued our journey into Ancient Greece, discovering what happened in the Golden Era. Athenian power grew and we learnt about Pericles and answered whether we thought he...

What a wonderful third week!

Another week full of learning in year 4! We continued our journey into Ancient Greece, discovering what happened in the Archaic Era. Did you know that the very...

Ancient Greece!

What an amazing week we have had in Year 4. We have been been learning lots about our new topic, ‘Ancient Greece’, and have been blown away by...

First week back!

Year 4 have had such a wonderful first week back! We have been incredibly impressed with the passion, dedication and resilience that they are already applying to their...

Carnival Time!

It has been another great STEAM week in Year 4 this week, with a particular focus on art and learning about carnival!   We started the week by...

Tooth Sleuths and Fantastic Forensic Science!

It was the first of our two STEAM weeks this week. STEAM stands for: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Music. We have enjoyed lots of learning connected to...

Brilliant bugs and bees!

This week has been all about insects, with a visiting bee expert, detailed insect drawings and create persuasive double page spreads urging people to support bees. In English...

Super Sports Day!

Super Sports Day!   We have had a great week in Year 4 this week. We have been on a local walk around Eddington and really enjoyed Sports...

Clever classifiying

Year 4 have had a busy week in the sun! We have been writing in the style of Anne Fine, looking at coordinates and symmetry, classifying living things...

Exploring Eddington!

Welcome back to the final term of the year. We hope you all had a good half term break. We are looking forward to lots of exciting learning...

Puppets, Plays and Platinum Jubilee!

And once again we are the end of another wonderful term. Highlights of Summer 1 have been our Caythorpe residential, creating puppet shows and our jubilee celebration lunch....

Showing off with Shadows!

In Year 4 this week, we have been busy working on our shadow puppet theatres, writing imaginative stories and continuing to build our knowledge of fractions.   In...

Mirrors, myths and maths

We have been fully in the swing of learning this week, with mirror investigations, myth writing, fractions and painting puppet theatres. In English this week we have continued...

Marvellous Myths!

In Year 4 this week, we have been learning the story of Perseus and Medusa, practising our tennis skills and investigating light and dark   In Topic, we...

Caythorpe Residential!

We have had an extra special week, with our Year 4 residential trip to Caythorpe. Many of you saw all of our adventures via our Twitter feed. Activities...

Year 4 investigate sightings of a mysterious creature in Eddington!

We were delighted to welcome everyone back to school after the Easter break this week and hope that you all had a restful break. We are all very...

Around the World Event

We have reached the end of a wonderful Spring term. This term has been jam-packed with dance, art, hockey, Spanish, scientist visits, author workshops and many other fun...

Spices and Chai

We have had another busy week in Year 4. Highlights of week 4 have been experimenting with spices and making chai tea, using magnets to understand more about...

Planning portal stories!

In Year 4 this week, we have been busy planning portal stories, getting to grips with hockey and learning notation to help us create rhythm patterns we can...

Division, dips and dance

Despite the rain, we have had another wonderful week in Year 4. Our timetable this term has a vast range of subjects including; Spanish, art, dance and cooking!...

Spectacular Performance Poetry

We were delighted to welcome everyone back to school after the half term break this week. We hope that you all had a restful break and are feeling...

Mellow Yellow

We cannot believe we have already reached the end of another half term. As usual, this was a very busy term filled with many experiences including; circuit making,...

Brilliant Board Games!

We have had another jam-packed week in Year 4 with the highlight being an extra-long topic morning to create board games. During English this week, we have been...

Circuits and board games!

In Year 4 this week, we have been making circuits, designing board games and thinking about trust in our friendships.   The children have been especially excited about...

It’s cricket in Year 4!

In Year 4 this week, we have been busy getting to grips with cricket, practising giving very specific instructions and finding out about the dangers of electricity.  ...

Inventions and Instructions

This has been a great first full week of Spring term which was once again jam-packed, starting our new topics across the curriculum including inventions, cricket, multiplication and...

Kicking off 2022 with Book Week!

Happy New Year! We were delighted to welcome everyone back to school for the spring term this week. We hope that you all had a restful break and...

Chickpeas, campfires and Christmas!

What a fantastic final week Year 4 have had, we cannot believe that our first term is already finished. We have all had a brilliant term learning about...

Frequencies, forest school and festive fun!

We have had a great week in Year 4 this week. As the Christmas holidays approach, we have been getting into the spirit of the season and have...

A journey to Kensuke’s Kingdom and a trip through the ear!

It has been another great week in Year 4. The children’s fantastic speeches about supporting refugees are finished and we are now working on typing them up so...

Speeches, sawing and STEM

We have had a wonderful week talking to everyone during learning conversations, alongside exciting activities such as STEM day, speech writing and forest school. This week in English,...

Kindness, computing and courage!

It has been a short but jam-packed week in Year 4! It was anti-bullying week this week and in our classes, we discussed what bullying is and how...

Inspiring Individual

This has been yet another busy week for Year 4. We have continued looking at the journeys and experiences of refugees across English this week. We were extremely...

Phenomenal Forest School!

We have had a fantastic start to the new half term! The children have started their new topics and have enjoyed many exciting learning opportunities.   Our topic...

Great Greek Salad!

It has been another busy week in Year 4. This week we have continued to develop our knowledge of Ancient Egypt and have worked very hard to finish...

Rounding and reporting

We’ve had a busy week in year 4! After working hard over the past few weeks finding out information about Tutankhamun, in English we have finished our non-chronological...

Amazing Artists

Amazing Artists This has been yet another fantastic week in Year 4. We were very lucky this week as each class had the opportunity to contribute to an...

Adventurous Archaeologists!

It has been another exciting week in Year 4. This week we became archaeologists and explored the tomb of an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh. We worked in teams to...

Exciting Egyptologists

What a wonderful week we have had in year 4! We have launched into our new topic of Ancient Egypt, learning about Tutankhamun and taking part in playful...

Learning to Learn Week

Welcome back! What a week we have had! The children have come back raring to go and we have all enjoyed ourselves greatly. We wanted to thank you...

Growth Mindset and Courage

We had a visitor this week who taught us all about the power of positive thinking and growth mindset. Mike Mullen is a BMX world champion and the...

Sports Day!

This week we took part in Sports Day with Year 3. Even the teachers ran a race! Everyone cheered for each other and was very supportive, well done...

Arts Week

Year 4 have had a fantastic week this week utilising their creativity and knowledge of the arts to generate amazing ideas and produce fabulous work! We expressed our...

Adventurers and explorers in the Amazon rainforest

We started the week with a crash – literally! Our text focus is The Explorer by Katherine Rundell, which is a story about 4 children who survive a...

Propelling STEM forwards in Year 4

This week saw our annual STEM event for the whole school, with a Design & Technology focus. In Year 4, this was lived out through the planning, designing,...

Our hard work pays off!

This week saw the culmination of a range of different projects that year 4 have ben working on. Firstly, we finally finished writing our stories! These were based...

Release the imagination: Fashion edition

Our text focus from last week, Bill’s New Frock by Anne Fine, inspired our writing this week as we imagined an item of our own clothing which could...

They woke up one morning in……. Dr Biddulph’s body!

This week we explored the meaning of stereotypes and we reflected on the importance of not judging by appearance. We were inspired by the book Bill’s New Frock...

Sustainable solutions, fast fashion and daily digestion!

This week was our final week to finish our video messages about Fast Fashion in English. We worked in our triads to create the scripts for our videos,...

What do plasticine, elastic and weighing scales all have in common…?

… they were all used to investigate scaling in maths this week! Yes, that’s right, our maths lessons took an adventurous turn as we investigated scale factors and...

Fashion’s Dirty Secrets…

We’ve had another full week of learning with lots of passionate discussions about the environment and how we can all make a difference to our world. In English,...

An Introduction to Fashion

Welcome back Year 4! We’ve had quite an exciting start to our new term and topic this week. We started our week with… a fashion show! This event...

…Clouds Before Sun ☼

Can you believe we’ve reached the Easter holidays already?! These past three weeks of in-school learning have flown by! Thank you to all of you for your positivity...

Rain Before Rainbows…

Our English lessons this week were inspired by a story called Rain Before Rainbows, all about a girl and her pet Fox who go on an adventure together....

Welcome back, Year 4!

This week we welcomed back our classes with smiles and optimism – it’s been wonderful to get back into our routines again! We are focusing on the PACE...

“It’s behind you!”

Well, we’ve come to the end of our first term together. Thank you all for your support and understanding, and we hope you have a restful and enjoyable...

“Make way for the East India Trading Company!”

Using our setting and character description from last week, we continued with our narrative based during the British invasion of India in the 17th century as we focused...

The British are coming!

Following our research into the British Empire last week, we utilized our knowledge of the era this week in English by starting a story about the British invasion...

Were the British right to invade India?

We continued with our skill of debating this week, using our topic of Power and Invasion as inspiration. We argued the statement: “The British were right to invade...

Is school where you learn best?

Short and sweet this week has been, but we’ve been busy learning and doing as always! We embarked on a two-week focus in English, that of debating. Our...

The Proudest Blue

We continued looking at our topic themes of discrimination, prejudice and injustice this week through the eyes of Faizah, the main character in our text focus The Proudest...

Power and Invasion!

Our topic launched this week with the introduction of new “rules” in our English lesson… The children were shocked to learn that one table group needed to tidy...

Physical health week and an end for Ancient Greece

As we finish our first half term together, the year 4 team would like to thank all parents and carers for their support and community spirit over the...

What’s your superpower?

Continuing our immersion into the world of the Greek gods this week saw us imagining what our superpower would be if we travelled back in time and were...

The Lost Chapter

We became authors of ancient history this week when we wrote our own lost chapter to Odysseus’ story. After being washed up on a strange island, we used...

Ancient Greek Clay-Modelling!

We journeyed along with Odysseus this week, from the Sirens we found ourselves choosing between the whirling vortex of Charybdis and the 6-headed Scylla! Using sentence openers to...

Singing Sirens…

This week we explored Odysseus’ journey, focusing on expanded noun phrases in English and building our vocabulary through the story of Odysseus and the Sirens. We also read...

Adventuring into Ancient Greece

This first week we have been busy learning about our new topic Ancient Greece. Please find our focus vocabulary for this half-term Topic Vocabulary Ancient Greece. We delved...

Learning to Learn Week

Welcome back, parents and pupils of UCPS! We’ve started a new academic year together after several months of online learning, and our classrooms are full of wide smiles...

The Rescue! (w.c. 13th July)

The Rescue! Welcome to week 3, the last week of your ‘UCPSpace’ project learning and the final week of your online learning before the holidays! Hooray! You have...

Crash Landing! (w.c. 6th July)

Crash Landing! Welcome to week 2 of the ‘UCPSpace’ project learning! We hope that you enjoyed the launch of our new learning projects last week! The anticipation is...

Lift Off! (w.c. 29.6.20)

We Have Lift Off! This week, the University of Cambridge Primary School is embarking on a three week project that will culminate in the children meeting their new...

Learning Links for w/c 22nd June

Hello everyone. Welcome to a new week of your online learning! Messages for the Week Premier Sport have very kindly offered to send us some fitness and exercise...

Learning Links for w/c 15th June

Hello everyone! Welcome to a new week of your online learning. Please see the sessions below to link you to your learning for the week. Messages for the...

Learning Links for w/c 8th June

Hello everyone! Please see below for all of your learning links for the week. Although we have numbered the sessions, please feel free to go at your own...

Learning Links for w/c 1st June

Hello everyone! Welcome back to your online learning! We hope that you had a lovely half term. Please see below for all of your learning links for the...

Virtual Learning for w/c 18 May 20

Dear Year 4 Welcome to the new week. Mental Health Awareness Week Hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from 18-24 May 2020....

Virtual Learning for w/c 11 May 20

Dear Year 4 Welcome to the new week. Here is an uplifting video shared by Mr Smith. You could use this as a prompt for a P4C discussion:...

Virtual Learning WC 4th May

Good morning Year 4 You will be sent a daily email from enquiries@ with the  UCPS YouTube videos for each day’s learning. This blog page will be updated...

Virtual Learning WC 27.4.20

Good morning Year 4 You will be sent a daily email from enquiries@ with the  UCPS YouTube videos for each day’s learning. This blog page will be updated...

Virtual Learning WC 20th April

Welcome back to online learning with Miss Janes and Mrs Bullen-Smith.  We hope you and your family kept safe and had a lovely Easter break. Our new topic...

Easter Holiday Blog

Dear Year 4 Families, It is vitally important you get a good break over Easter. The following activities are provided for you to dip in to should you...

Virtual Learning week commencing 30 March 2020

Good morning Year 4 You will be sent a daily email from enquiries@ with the  UCPS YouTube videos for each day’s learning. This blog page will be updated...

Virtual Learning for the week of 23 March 2020

Good morning Year 4 Update  READING: check out getepic.com! We have set you up with an account and you will find a tutorial link and your class code...

STEM week

Wow! What a fun filled week it has been. We have been non-stop enjoying a range of creative lessons inside and out. Inside, we have produced different types...

Sound science and snuggling with stories

Brilliant learning in science this week as children investigated how sounds are made and how the effect of vibration can be seen and felt. It was lovely to...

Around the World in 80 Days

This week we have immersed ourselves in the story Around the World in 80 Days. In our new learning street we have thoroughly enjoyed getting creative while discovering...

All about books…

By a Nile Reporter: All about books… It is Book Week! This week we’ve been working on characters from ‘Here We Are’ by Oliver Jeffers. Nile Class has...

From our own correspondent

From our own correspondent in Nile class: In English this week we have finally started to write our speeches!  We started on Monday with our introductions and on...

Guest editor

This week’s blog is brought to you by a guest editor in Nile class: Swimming This week at swimming Year 4 had the longest lesson yet.  This was...

Museum of Technology

We have had a busy but fantastic week this week, with our second lesson of Forest School, Swimming and of course, the highlight of our week, our school...

Swimming and Sandwiches, Forest School and Fun

Amazon had a fabulous start to Forest School with great team work and exploration.  Nile were den building and making mobiles this week. Both classes started swimming lessons...

Welcome Back

Happy New Year. Thank you again for all the extremely generous gifts we received at Christmas, it is very much appreciated. It has been drunk, spent and eaten...