Welcome to the class page for Year 4!
At Stockton Wood, we Lay the Foundations for Life.
Year 4 Staff:
4J: Mrs Jones
4M: Miss Martin
Information for Parents
Stockton Wood is a Restorative School. In Year 4 we use emojis to check-in to share how we are feeling and this helps us to manage our feelings.
The children are looking forward to a great year of learning, including listening to stories by new authors, learning outdoors, exploring the world around them as scientists and being physically active.
Class Dojos are used to celebrate achievements and praise efforts!
General Reminders
PE Days
4J: Monday
4M: Monday
Reading is at the heart of everything we do, so please try and read with your
child every night. Ask them questions about what they have read, encouraging them to talk about the book, whether it is a story or non-fiction. This will help them with their reading comprehension.
Reading books can be changed as soon as your child has completed their book.
Your child can bring a water bottle to school, containing water only.
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check
Curriculum Overview Y4 2026-27
These activities will explore our wider curriculum, offer creative challenges and an opportunity to earn dojos!
Year 4 Chatter
Under Pressure – Peer Influence
Year 4 discussed healthy and unhealthy behaviours.We identified the difference between being unkind, teasing and bullying. Children considered how, by resisting peer pressure, they are showing respect towards themselves and developing self worth.
Celebrations in year 4 🤩📝✍️👏
These children have demonstrated that they are ready to take greater responsibility for their handwriting, showing consistent care, control and presentation in their written work. They should be very proud of their achievements!
Year Four Art – Drawing
Lovely art lesson today retrieving prior learning and exploring lines and shapes. We produced a range of lines and turned some of them into symbols.
Year Four -PE
Great sending and receiving skills today during our first cricket lesson. Good over arm and under arm throwing skills.
PSHE – Different Feelings
Year Four engaged in group discussions and a range freeze frames linked to different emotions. They could talk about the variety of emotions and how these are displayed through facial expressions and body language.
Arts Council candidates
We had so many candidates for our Arts Councillor. Well done to every child that shared the reasons that they would be a great member of our Arts team. Unfortunately, only one could be chosen.
Arts Council
Introducing our new Art Council, these children in Year 4 to 6 will be busy this year with lots of art projects.
Dyslexia Awareness
This afternoon in assembly, we discussed how dyslexia can affect different things for different people. A person with dyslexia can be good at some things but need support with other things. It is important to remember that people with dyslexia also have great strengths too and that at our school we support each other no matter what our differences are.
Science meets Maths!
Year 4 used their data handling skills to organise and explore their Welly Walk findings, classifying vertebrates, invertebrates, flowering and non-flowering plants and making cross-curricular connections with Maths.
Stay and Learn – Reading
A huge thank you to all the parents who joined us for this morning’s Stay and Learn session! We explored how we use Ready Steady Read Together in school and shared helpful tips and strategies to support reading at home.
Children, let’s keep the story going!
Please remember to bring your reading book to school every day!
Science – Data Handling
Year 4 became scientists as we explored our school grounds on a welly walk! We looked for examples of vertebrates, invertebrates, flowering plants and non-flowering plants, recording our findings using a tally chart.
We will use our collected data to create graphs and present our findings, helping us to compare the living things we discovered and develop our data-handling skills.
Will our findings be different in Spring? Why?
PSHE – Listening, sharing and respecting others.
4M took part in a fishbowl activity as part of our Restorative Practice work. We practised listening carefully, taking turns to speak and respecting different opinions. The children reflected on how their words and actions can affect others and explored the importance of making everyone feel heard and included.
Interactive Ballet Class – Year Four
Wow what a wonderful experience we have all had this morning in Year Four! We joined in a Royal Ballet master class via zoom and learnt all about the arts. We explored a range of styles of Ballet throughout the years up until present day. Plus developed our knowledge of how stage settings, props and dance motifs are created.
Maths Party Day – Year Four
We had lots of fun using mirrors and exploring symmetry. We completed a range of lovely independent activities and challenged our partners to complete symmetrical tasks too.
Musical Monday in year 4!
🎵Year 4 enjoyed listening to live music, singing along to favourite tunes (some with tricky lyrics!) and practicing their note-taking skills 🎶🎵
Building confidence in Maths
Once again, year 4 we’re using CPA (concrete, pictorial and abstract) resources to support their learning.
Some of our children are finally mastering Subtraction with exchanges.
Amazingly, we have a handful of children in year 4 that have already successfully understood the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction.
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Take aim!
This week, year 4 have been developing their throwing skills, focusing on speed and accuracy in preparation for dodgeball. We warmed up with a fun game of ‘stuck in the mud’ – dodgeball style!
Year 4 Hello Yellow Day
Year 4 celebrated Hello Yellow Day by exploring children’s mental health.
We discussed different scenarios, shared strategies to help us feel calm, regulated and ready to learn again, and created our own personal lists of things to try when feeling overwhelmed.
We also enjoyed some mindful activities to support our wellbeing!
Black History Month
To celebrate Black History Month Year Four have been learning about a local sporting legend Katrina Johnson Thompson ‘KJT’ and her amazing sporting achievements.
Year Four – Computing and Science
Today Year Four used their scientific knowledge and computing skills to create a range of digital branching database’s.
