Welcome to our Pioneers class page 2025-26
We are the Year 4 class at Warren Hills Primary School.
The class is taught by Miss Horrill and Mrs Felstead and is supported by Miss Flamson, Mrs Finch and Miss Barnett.
PE this term will be on a Tuesday and a Wednesday
Please ensure that your child has an indoor kit consisting of a Warren Hills P.E. T-Shirt, shorts and plimsolls and also an outdoor kit consisting of plain tracksuit bottoms or leggings, a Warren Hills P.E. T-Shirt, sweatshirt and pair of trainers. Long hair must be tied back and earrings removed (if your child is unable to remove earrings themselves, please ensure they are removed before school).
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We Love Reading
In our class, we know how important reading is to help us learn and we follow a reading scheme in our school called Read, Write, Inc. We each have a home reading folder to bring our books home in every day and a yellow reading record. We enjoy reading at home and know how important it is to practise with our parents/carers regularly to help us become successful readers.
A note from the teacher: Please ensure that your child brings their home reading folder back to school every day and remember to encourage them to spend some time reading either to an adult or independently each day.
Autumn Term 2 2025-26
Marvellous Mountains
Marvellous mountains will be discovered! We will walk the closest thing we have to a mountain - Bardon Hill! On our walk we will be looking at the features and comparing them to much bigger mountains like Mount Everest! We will become such experts that we will be able to name the features and zones of a mountain and use grid references to locate them! In science we will be looking at the water cycle carrying out investigations to explore condensation and evaporation.
Please encourage your child to practise their weekly spellings. They should be able to tell you which spellings they are learning!
Weekly spellings
| Name | Format | ||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Y4 Spelling Term 1b Overview.pdf | |||
| Year 3 Term 1B Overview.pdf |
Please encourage your child to learn all their times tables. By the end of Year 4 they should have learnt them all ready to take the multiplication test in June. They all have a log in to time tables rock stars.
We looked at the different states water can be. We observed the processes of evaporation and condensation when water is heated or cooled.
Seven Trent water came to work with us. We learnt all about how wonderful water is and how it can take just 3 hours to go from the river to be treated and cleaned to get to our taps! We learnt how to be water savers and what a water waster might do!
In science we were finding the melting points of different materials. All the materials were frozen to a solid then we put them in the oven set at different temperatures. We tested ketchup, shampoo, milk, cheese, chocolate and butter. Chocolate and cheese had the highest melting point of 40 degrees and milk and shampoo had the lowest melting point of 20 degrees.
Autumn Term 1 2025-26
The Romans
Starting with a battle! We will be finding out about what the Romans did for us and how they shaped the future. Who was Queen Boudicca? A visiting Roman workshop will give us the chance to get 'hands on' experience of Roman artefacts. We will discover how the Romans built their towns.
weekly spellings
| Name | Format | ||
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| Files | |||
| Year 3 Term 1A Overview.pdf | |||
| Y4 Spelling Term 1a Overview.pdf |
Science -Roman bottom wiper!
We were carrying out a comparative test to investigate the best material for a Roman bottom wiper! We tested for durability, absorbency, softness and flexibility. We used marmite as a poo substitute! We tested a pebble,leaf,moss,sponge and tissue paper. To make the test fair we did 6 wipes and made our observations.
Noah's Ark
We helped our friends from the St David's Church tell the story of Noah's Ark in assembly. Some of us were the animals, Noah's sons and their wives.
Science
We were investigating the statement, "People with longer legs can jump further." We measured the leg length of different children across the school and then measured how far they could jump. We collected lots of data and looked for any patterns to support the statement.
Swimming this term will be on a Tuesday
Payment for this can be made on ParentPay at a subsidised cost of £1.50 per week. Please ensure your child has the appropriate kit of a one piece swimming costume or shorts, a swimming hat and a towel.
