Welcome to our Year 4 page where you can find out more about what is happening in our class!

On Tuesdays, Year 4 have 'Together We Achieve' with Mr Mayne - this counts for our first PE lesson. Children need to wear PE kit to school.

Our second PE lesson is on a Wednesday. Please wear school uniform and bring your swimming kit (costume, towel, hat, goggles, flip flops).

If you have any questions or would like to contact the class team, please email Year4teacher@ash-grange.surrey.sch.uk or call the school office on 01252 328589 to leave a message. Alternatively you can fill in the contact form.

We're looking forward to working with you this year!

Half Term Project Details and Homework Ideas 

YEAR 4– Traders and Raiders

Project Homework is due on 16th May 2025.

The Viking Age began in Britain began about 1,200 years ago, in the 9th century AD, lasting for 20 years. Coming across the North Sea, just as the Anglo-Saxons had done 400 years earlier. In time, like the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings made their home here. They drove the Saxons out of part of the country and took it for themselves. King Alfred, Saxon king of Wessex, fought them in a great battle, but he could not drive them right away and had to let them have part of the country, called Danelaw.

 The new projects run for the first half of the summer term. Homework contributions can be made throughout the half term, please make sure your child brings in something that they have worked on at home.

Below are some ideas for each project, try one of these or something else project related.

• Use the internet to find out about any Anglo-Saxon or Viking invasions in your local area or county (Surrey).
• Try making some Anglo-Saxon bread or Viking flatbread (search online for recipes).
•  Look at King Alfred’s pledge: ‘I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works’. Write and design your own pledge – how would you like to be remembered in the future?
•  Look at images of Anglo-Saxon coins. Can you design your own coin? You could draw a picture or use modelling clay or other materials to make your coin look like metal – use your imagination!
• Do some research about Viking names and their meanings, and make up some suitable Viking names for your friends and family. Remember to describe something about the person’s appearance or characteristics.
• Find out more about the futhark or runic alphabet used by the Vikings. Write a short message using the runic characters. They wrote on wood, bone and stone. What will you use?
• Imagine you are a Viking skald, or poet. Create a poem to sing the praises of a friend or family member.
• Find out about the Sikh festival of Baisakhi (or Vaisakhi). Make a poster or power point to share your findings.

Year 4 experiences

During Year 4, Pupils take part in Together We Achieve with Mr Mayne each Tuesday. We also have sessions with an art specialist from Ash Manor bi-weekly on Wednesdays.

School Council 

School Councillor - Bell-Rose

Class Reps - Chester and Melisa

Eco Reps - Crystal and Isiuwa

Charity - TBA

Class Assembly Dates

Here are the dates for our class sharing assemblies this year. We hope you will come and join us at 9am in the hall:

• Year 4 Class Assembly - Friday 22nd November 2024
• Year 4 Class Assembly - Friday 14th February 2025
• Year 4 Easter Assembly at Holy Angels Church - Friday 4th April 2025
• Year 4 Class Assembly - Friday 23rd May 2025

Year 4 Trips and Events

Thursday 8th May 2025 to 878 AD in Winchester.