Year 4

We have been working collaboratively in computing this term.

The children started by drawing a section of a picture and then giving it to someone else to continue – this was lots of fun.  We then worked on a file collaboratively, which was very fun but very chaotic!  The children quickly realised that we needed to establish rules for doing this.

Birch Class enjoyed learning how to say the numbers in German and basic phrases in German.  We also watched SpongeBob Schwammkopf and listened to German music.  The children learned to sing ‘Bruder Jakob’.

We created a model of the water cycle to see how rain is formed.

We went outside to look closely at God’s marvellous creations.  The children also explored the story of creation and compared God to an artist.

We went outside to find examples of invertebrates in our local environment.  We had great fun on our bug hunt!

The focus of our first Task Day was ‘take notice’.  We started the day by reflecting on the small things around us.

Birch class enjoyed taking part in a ‘Cosmic Yoga’ session. The children took some time to reflect and take in their surroundings.

Hello everyone, welcome to year 4. We are really looking forward to opening the doors tomorrow and welcoming the children into the classrooms.

This term is packed with lots of new learning which we are excited to share with the children. You can see below an overview of the term and the wide variety of different areas we will be covering.

Term 1 Overview 2025/26

Term 1 Overview – Rivers (PDF Download)

KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts)

This term for our maths key facts learning, we are asking the children to ensure they know their 3x, 4x and 8x tables. We will be revising these in class with KIRFs of the week too which we’ll let you know about via ClassDojo.

T1 KIRFs Year 4 (PDF Download)

Our PE this term will be on Mondays and Fridays. Please ensure children have their full PE kits in school every week for this important part of the curriculum. PE kit requirements can be found on the website here – Uniform – St Nicholas CE Primary Academy (st-nicholas-newromney.kent.sch.uk).

We are really looking forward to the year ahead.  If you have any questions, please contact your class teacher.

Many thanks

Year 4 team

Today, the children visited St Nicholas Church for a stained glass window workshop. They learned about the processes used to make stained glass – how to cut pieces of glass, how to colour them and how they are joined using lead.

Afterwards, they had a go themselves, creating beautiful faux stained glass to hang up at home in their windows to catch the light. Those who finished quicker also got the opportunity to go on a treasure hunt around the church, looking for objects, sketching them and writing down what they think the object is used for.

They had great fun and we are so grateful to Teach Me Courses for giving the children this wonderful opportunity.

In Beech class today, we completed the environmental project we have been working on during our six wellbeing days this year. We were inspired from our first session back in September by the actions of environmental activist Greta Thunberg and we have been following the United Nations Sustainability Goal 15 – Life on Land.

Across the year, the children have designed bug and animal shelters; researched types of bugs they would like to attract; and created information panels to inform others about the creatures they might expect to see. They even took part in interviews for an assistant site manager, to ensure they had the skills to help construct the bug shelters following the children’s design brief!

Today, with the bug shelters built, it was time to finish our project and fill the compartments with items to attract beneficial bugs to improve the biodiversity in the school grounds.

And here are the finished shelters ready for hanging on our fences along with their information panels. These panels are temporary ones which will be replaced with professionally printed acrylic boards in the same style! The children made one bug shelter per house team, with information about their saint – St Augustine, St George, St Nicholas and St Peter.

St Augustine

St George

St Nicholas

St Peter

Today, year 4 hosted their very own French Café, Café “l’Hêtre and le Bouleau” (Beech and Birch Café). We had an enormous turnout with parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and siblings all coming along to support the children. The children took orders in French and the parents had a script to reply (subtitled with phonetic spellings to help if needed!).