Year 4

Welcome to Year 4!

In this exciting year, we aim to provide every child with the opportunity to fully engage in Key Stage Two and embrace the challenges it offers.

Year 4 is led by Miss Danks and Miss Fletcher-Adams, our dedicated class teachers. Together, they are committed to fostering a positive learning environment where children feel engaged and supported, enabling them to reach their full potential.

Throughout Year 4, they will encourage your child to develop greater independence, both academically and socially. 

Year Group Contact Email:

We understand that it can be challenging for parents to reach us while we are in class and you are at work. To facilitate communication, we have established dedicated email accounts for each year group, which will be monitored by the relevant staff members. We are here to address any queries you may have regarding your child’s learning, and we will strive to respond as promptly as possible.

Year Group Email address

These are as follows:

year3@deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk

year4@deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk

year5@deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk

year6@deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk

News and Updates – 2024/25

Miss Danks

Miss Danks

Miss Fletcher-Adams

Miss Fletcher-Adams

Year 4 had an amazing time on their residential trip!

So many lasting memories were made, with lots of fun and special moments shared with friends.

A big thank you to all the staff who made the trip happen and supported the children throughout.

Year 4 Trip to Creswell Crags – A Step Back in Time

We had a memorable day at Creswell Crags, immersing ourselves in history ready for our new Stone Age topic. The trip provided a wonderful opportunity for the children to experience life during Stoneage. 

Throughout the day, the children:

  • Sat inside an authentic Stone Age cave and learned about its history. 
  • Examined fascinating artifacts from the period
  • Learned survival techniques used by early humans
  • Tried their hand at creating their own Stone Age-inspired artwork

The trip was both educational and inspiring, bringing history to life and giving the children a deeper understanding of this fascinating period.

November 2024
In Design Technology lesson, we are creating their own felt book covers. After carefully planning their covers, they began the process of sewing their designs onto the front of the felt cover. It was wonderful to see their perseverance as they tackled the tricky task of threading needles and tying knots. We look forward to seeing the finished creations soon!
Autumn Term
In Music, we have been exploring the glockenspiel and learning how to create melodies using the pentatonic scale. It’s been amazing to see them experiment with different note combinations and develop their musical creativity. We can’t wait to hear the beautiful melodies they’ll create as we progress through this half term!
October 2024
Before half term, our Year 4 children took their Maths lesson outdoors for a fun and active approach to learning. To boost their times tables knowledge, they enjoyed some times table relay races, followed by practice with the standard written method for addition. It was a fantastic way to combine movement with learning, and the children loved the fresh air and active challenges.

Y4 Residential to The Oakes
Wednesday 23rd – Friday 25th April 2025

As part of our extra-curricular activities, Y4 will be going on a two-night residential to The Oakes
Holiday Centre from Wednesday 23rd April 2025 to Friday 25th April 2025. The Oakes Holiday Centre is an action packed, fun filled centre at Norton, Sheffield, based on
Christian principals.

It is a Georgian house set in acres of woods, lawns and a lake surrounded by parkland with all activities on site. There are a variety of activities for children to choose from including: archery, a ropes course, the ‘tough mudder’ obstacle course, a climbing wall, zorbing, foot golf, arts and crafts, team challenges, camp fires, radio control cars, wide games and raft building. All activities are led by The Oakes team and they have full insurance cover to
do this.

As well as the above activities, there is also a daily meeting time, a little like the daily assembly
we have at school, whereby talks around the Christian faith are given in a clear, exciting and
relevant way. There is no pressure for children to respond to what they have heard, just as there
isn’t at school. However, as we are a C of E school the children will be very used to the messages
they are hearing.

The payment  for the Residential is now available via your ParentPay account. Please see the below due dates:

 
Cost to payer: £150.00
Instalments 1: £35.00 30/11/2024
Instalments 2: £38.33 31/01/2025
Instalments 3: £38.33 28/02/2025
Instalments 4: £38.34 31/03/2025
 
Thank you

The Y4 Team

Exciting science in Year 4 today! Our young investigators made ear gongs to explore how sound travels through different objects.
 
Through hands-on experiments, they discovered that sound moves faster through solids than air! Why? Because the particles in solids are packed much more tightly than those in air, allowing sound waves to travel quicker.
 
Fantastic work, Year 4.
10th September
This term, we have started an exciting new science topic all about Sound!
In our first lesson, we jumped right into hands-on experiments to explore how sound is formed and how it travels to our brains. We discovered how vibrations create sound waves, and how our ears work to send those signals to our brain to interpret different sounds! 👂🧠
A fantastic start to the topic!

Photos from 2023/24

We had a fabulous time at The Oakes

inspiring a love of music is something that we are very passionate about at St John’s.
 
Yesterday, in music, we learned about the pentatonic scale, which is a musical scale with 5 notes as apposed to 7. Children then composed their own melodies, which we then got to play on our newly purchased glockenspiels.
7th March 2024
World Book day is a great opportunity for children to come together and celebrate the joy of reading. Sharing a book can foster a love for literature and encourage creativity and imagination.
Allowing children from across Royd and St John’s to come together to share a book helps to promote reading for pleasure as well as allowing the older children develop their leadership, nurturing and communication skills.