Year 4 Class News

Living & Learning: Speak out. Stay safe.

This week is our second week on being safe in L&L. Today, your children learnt all about speaking out to stay safe with NSPCC.

We discussed children’s rights and the importance of the NSPCCs message of ‘Speak out. Stay safe’.

All children have the right to:

• speak out and have their views taken seriously,
• be kept safe,
• get help when they need it.

As part of this lesson, your children identified their trusted adults that they’d confidently ask anything to. We discussed the importance of having these trusted adults and why we should always speak out rather than bottling things up.

Alongside this, we spoke about how our trusted adults make us feel. Your children were really confident and comfortable speaking to their trusted adults about any worries or concerns.

Our Living & Learning box, in the classroom, is another way the children can speak out and write down any worries.

Help at home: visit the Childline website with your children (https://www.childline.org.uk/kids). Explore the games, interactive tools and age-appropriate advice.

Year 3/4 football final

Well done to our Year 3/4 football team who competed in the Leeds Well School Partnership final at the West Riding FA. The team worked together to play some great football including some fantastic saves from our goalkeeper. The children should feel extremely proud they qualified for this final along with the six other best schools across Leeds.

Summer term after-school clubs

Rhinos Rugbees

Book Club: Group Reading

Hello!

This week, we’re beginning group reading again.

The class have been divided into groups and each group has been given a book to read at home. This will last for this half term.

During our Book Club sessions each Friday, each group will discuss what they have read so far and share their reading record activities related to their book. This will be a fantastic opportunity for the children to explore characters and storylines more than they might do normally!

Every Friday during Book Club, each group will be given a new page to read to by the following Friday.

What to remember:

• Your child has a book that they need to read every week (up to a chosen point marked with a post-it notes).
• Make the reading work for your child. Feel free to share the reading with them or even you read it to them here and there.
• The reading record activity needs to be completed using their new book.
• A comment from a grown up needs to be written in their reading record.
• Group reading books and reading records need to be brought in every Friday.

Help at home: ensure your child is reading up to the post-it note each week. Listen to your child read their new book and ask questions about the book to help prepare them for class discussions.

Maths: multiplying and dividing by 10

Before the Easter break, Year 4 were multiplying by 10 in Maths. We discussed what happens when we make a number 10 times the size…

When multiplying a number by 10, we move it one place value column to the left. We can then place a zero after the final digit of that number.

This week, we’ve moved onto dividing by 10. As we were confident with multiplying by 10, we discussed how division is the inverse operation to multiplication and therefore…

When dividing a number by 10, we move it one place value column to the right. 

We used counters and place value charts to practise dividing a number by 10.

Help at home: ask your child whether the answers to these equations are a multiple of 10 or not.

• 3 x 10
• 120 ÷ 10
• 200 ÷ 10
• 17 x 10
• 50 x 10
• 20 ÷ 10

Girls cricket

FREE GIRLS CRICKET TASTER SESSION

Old Leodiensians’ Cricket Club is excited to offer a FREE Girls-Only Cricket Taster Session at the club. Whether your daughter has never picked up a bat or is a budding superstar our girls cricket sessions are designed for all abilities. We have opportunities for all ages at the club, this session will be aimed at girls aged 8-13 years old.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday 30th April 2026

• Time: 5:15 pm – 6:15pm

• Location: Old Leodiensians Cricket Club

• Cost: FREE

Please see link below and poster for more information…

https://forms.gle/MzmzrA8EaMXFTgUS9

Forest school!

Year 4 have had a brilliant time in Forest School this half-term! They’ve gone out rain or shine and got stuck in with exciting things like making toffee apples, creating fairy fires and building dens. Some children have most enjoyed just playing in the mud. They can’t wait to do it again!

Leeds Rhinos Foundation Netball Camps

Easter and May half term Netball camps (open to boys and girls) are on sale and are taking place in Leeds, Wakefield, Harrogate, Pudsey and Sheffield. The camps cost £30 per day and run from 10am – 3pm.

Full details and how to book can be found here.

Living & Learning: healthy diets

Over the last couple of weeks in Year 4, we’ve been learning about the importance of a healthy, balanced diet.

We began by discussing the five main food groups. They all have a different function and help our bodies in different ways.

• Carbohydrates provides us with energy.
• Fruit and vegetables provide us with vitamins and minerals.
• Dairy is full of calcium which helps our bones and teeth stay strong and healthy.
• Protein helps our muscles repair and grow.
• Fats and oils provide us with energy and help our body absorb vitamins and minerals.

As these five food groups all have a different function, it’s important that we have a balanced diet to keep our bodies strong and healthy. We can use the Eatwell Guide to help us.

Year 4 had a go at creating their own Eatwell Guides…

Help at home: plan a balanced meal with your child and check you have a balanced amount of each food group.