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Year 4 2026-27: Term 1 Week 5

Dear Parents and Carers, This week your children have been up to: Literacy: We finished the drafting and editing of our reports on the eruption in Pompeii before writing them up into a newspaper-style format. Next week we will study a new topic, focusing on a character known as ‘The Dreamgiver’. Maths: We spent the week […]

Year 4 2026-27: Term 1 Week 4

Dear Parents and Carers, This week, your children have been studying the following: Literacy: Having reread the story Escape From Pompeii, we took on the roles of young journalists and began to draft and edit our own newspaper reports. So far we have drafted our lead paragraph and the main body of our articles about the […]

Year 4 2026-27: Term 1 Week 3

Dear Parents and Carers, This week, your children have been studying the following: Literacy: We began the week by thinking about our senses – see, hear, smell, taste and touch – and used these to help us form some expanded noun phrases based on our knowledge of a normal day in Pompeii. From here, we […]

Year 4 2026-27: Term 1 Week 2

Dear Parents and Carers, Our first full week of the new academic year is complete. This is what we have been getting up to: Literacy: The children began the week by reading the story Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit. After making some predictions based on reading the opening page, the children did some revision […]

Year 4 2026-27: Term 1 Week 1

Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome to a new year at SCPS. We hope you have all had a fantastic and restful summer break. Although we have only been back at school for two days, we have already covered the following: Literacy: The classes created a mind map about their summer holidays and turned these memories […]

E-mail updates from the SCPS Year 4 website

You are receiving this email because you signed up to get notifications from your child’s year group web page at SCPS. Your contact details have now been updated to show your child will be in Year 4 from September 2026. You receive an email each time the Y4 web page is updated by the Y4 […]

Final week

This last post is a little different…instead of us filling you in on what’s been happening, each member of the Year 4 team has written a message. It would be incredible if you could share these messages with your children. Thank you for all your support this year. Year 4, as we come to the […]