Year 4 Class News

Half term basketball camps

As a partner school of City of Leeds Basketball Club and one of our after-school club providers, we’re pleased to share details of their half term camps held locally at Allerton High School.

Living and Learning: Me and my money themed week

Each class will have a collecting jar and children are encouraged to bring in 1ps and 2ps throughout the week. A trail will be created using all the money brought in at the end of the week.

Hotshots sponsorship event

On Friday 7 November, we will be holding a Hotshots sponsorship event, led by PE Partner. This involves each child having three chances to score a goal and their fastest speed recorded. All children will receive a certificate with their fastest shot speed and medals will be awarded for the fastest boy and girl in each class. Your child will be bringing home a sponsorship form for this event and money raised should be added to School Gateway by Friday 14 November.

Thank you for your support with these events.

 

Writing: twisted tales

In writing, Year 4 are looking at news reports.

The purpose of a news report is to tell the reader information about something that has happened.

We’re going to be writing a news report about a twisted tale. We’re doing a spin on the classic three little pigs story. However, ours is going to be the three little wolves and the big bad pig. The big bad pig needs a warm blanket for winter and wolf fur is exactly what he’s looking for!

Today, together we drew a story map (we found the drawing quite tricky as you can see!) of our twisted tale. This is going to help us write our news reports next week.

Help at home: ask your children to tell you the story of the three little wolves and the big bad pig. Can they do it like a news reporter?

Maths: calculating with 1,000

In Year 4, we’ve been looking at the structure of 1,000 in maths.

There are 10 hundreds in 1 thousand.

There are 100 tens in 1 thousand.

There are 1,000 ones in 1 thousand.

Understanding the structure of 1,000 then helps us with our calculations.

When subtracting ones from 1,000, we can partition into 990 and 10 to help us.

Once we were confident, we had a go at writing some of our own worded problems for subtracting from 1,000.

Help at home: have a go at these questions (remember to partition if you need some help):

1,000 – 5 =

1,000 – 8 =

1,000 – 3 =

1,000 – 6 =

Geography: Moortown local walk

Today, Year 4 completed some fieldwork in our local area as part of our Geography topic: Where in the World am I?

fieldwork: observing and collecting data in a locality

We were investigating the different types of land-use that we can see in our local area. Your children used the iPads to take photos of all the different types of land-use that they could spot. We were able to find four different types on our walk…

• transport – allows us to travel to other areas of land
• recreational – used for the purpose of activities and fun e.g Moortown Park
• residential – used to provide housing for people
• commercial – used for businesses e.g shops, cafes and restaurants

Your children were safe, responsible walkers and fantastic geographers!

Help at home: go on a walk (local or somewhere new) and ask your children to point out all the different types of land-use that they can see.

Living & Learning: protected characteristics

Our L&L statement for the week: I understand some characteristics are protected by law.

In our L&L lesson this week, we learnt about the protected characteristics. We discussed what they are and how they’re protected.

Discrimination is defined as ‘the unfair treatment of people because of who they are or because they have a certain characteristic(s)’. We discussed examples and the impact of discrimination.

We discussed how the protected characteristics are protected by law – The Equality Act 2010 protects people from discrimination based on protected characteristics.

A helpful way to remember the protected characteristics is by using the mnemonic:

DR GRAMPSS

Disability

Race

Gender reassignment

Religion or beliefs

Age

Marriage or civil partnership

Pregnancy and/or maternity leave

Sex

Sexual orientation

Help at home: Can you remember the 9 protected characteristics using DR GRAMPSS? Why do we have protected characteristics?

National Poetry Day!

Yesterday, we celebrated National Poetry Day by exploring lots of poetry in class and having a special poetry assembly. Year 4 have been practising our poem by Paul Cookson all week and the children delivered it in front of the school beautifully.

They projected their voices fantastically and recited the poem with great prosody. They even learnt it off by heart – well done Year 4!

Help at home: visit the children’s poetry archive and explore their brilliant website. Which is your favourite poem?

Writing: character descriptions

This week, Year 4 are writing their character descriptions of Podkin One-Ear. This is the main character from our class novel by Kieran Larwood.

Purpose: to give the reader information about a character.

Audience: children and adults

We’ve spent the last few weeks exploring Podkin One-Ear. We’ve discussed how we could describe both his appearance and his personality to somebody who hasn’t read the book. Our aim has been for the reader to get a detailed and clear picture of Podkin in their heads, without needing to see a picture.

As a class, your children came up with some fantastic adjectives to describe Podkin which they are using in their writing.

Stay tuned to find out how they go…

Help at home: close your eyes and ask your children to describe Podkin for you in as much detail as possible. Can you picture him?

Maths: column subtraction

This week, we’ve moved onto column subtraction in maths.

We used Base 10 in a fun maths game yesterday to represent our subtractions.

The children represented 49 on on their whiteboards with Base 10 (4 tens and 9 ones). They then had to roll a dice and subtract that number from their Base 10 with the aim of getting down to zero. However, this became a problem when they ran out of ones and only had tens left!

They had to exchange 1 ten for 10 ones.

This game allowed the children to really visualise and understand the process of exchanging in column subtraction.

Help at home: use this website (https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/base-ten-blocks) to play the game with your children at home.

Leeds Rhinos play offs

PLAY OFF ACTION RETURNS TO AMT HEADINGLEY

Following the conclusion of the regular season Leeds Rhinos will take on St Helens in a mouth-watering elimination play off at AMT Headingley Stadium on Saturday 27 September 2025, kicking off at 8pm.

Tickets are on sale now at Leeds Rhinos – Online ticket sales

We hope that you will join us for what promises to be a fantastic occasion as we aim to get within 80 minutes of the Grand Final at Old Trafford.

Further info can be found here Play Off Eliminator tickets on sale now