We are 4 Shields!

We are friendly hardworking group of children. Our class is named after Hannah Shields, the first woman from Northern Ireland to reach the summit of Mount Everest. We take inspiration from her every day and try our best to follow our Greenmountaineers’ code.

We are really looking forward to our year in Year 4, especially swimming! In geography, we will be looking at how Beeston has changed over the years, different climate zones (where we’ll talk to our partner school in Kenya about our different climate) and discuss fair trade and the impact it can have on lots of different people. In history we will look at Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings and the influence they have had on modern Britain. We will be developing our mathematical knowledge, especially of our times tables and prepare for our multiplication check. In English, we will be developing our skills as readers and writers and produce a range of different text types across the year.

In Year 4, we will continue to build on our personal and social development to become the best we can be!

We are 4 Chandi! In 4 Chandi, we set ourselves high expectations and make ourselves proud. Our teachers are Ms Wray Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Ms Mir on a Tuesday. Our teaching assistants are Mr Allen and Ms Turner.  

Our class is named after Preet Chandi: known as Polar Preet, she broke two Guinness World Records in Jan 2023, for both the longest solo unsupported one-way polar ski journey for a woman and also the longest solo unsupported one-way polar ski journey overall.

We are so looking forward to the year ahead!  We are going to learn to swim with our weekly swimming lessons at Armley Swimming Baths. In Science, we will learn about organisms and their habitats – we will discover a variety of living things that live on our doorstep in Cross Flatts Park and as far away as the Amazon Rainforest!  We will develop our fluency and comprehension skills through enjoying a wide range of exciting books both fiction and non-fiction. Our reading will take us on journeys like whale watching, back in time to visit ancient civilisations and to Africa to befriend lions. These will inspire our writing and help us to learn new vocabulary. In History, we will be learning about what Beeston was like in the past, the influences Ancient Roman civilisation had on modern society and the impact the Anglo Saxons and Vikings had on Great Britain. At the end of Year 4, we have our Times Tables Test and will be preparing for this in Maths lessons and by using Times Tables Rock Stars in school and at home. We will work with numbers within 10,000 using different calculation strategies. We use an enquiry-based approach in our lessons showing Confidence, Learning, Independence, Motivation and Belief.