To finish off our DT project, year 4 created the housing of their torches that their adults helped them to create. Children used different materials and thought about the design specifications to ensure they created a fully functional torch with a simple circuit. We are certain we have lots of electricians on our hands! Great work Year 4!
Year 4 would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the adults that joined us to help finish off our torches for our D&T unit. We created electrical circuits and switches to create a sim0le circuit. We then constructed a case for our torch out of plastic bottles and tin foil. We had a wonderful morning working together!
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To celebrate National Story Telling week, we based our literacy learning on the book 'Journey'. We took part in a range of activities including role play, drawing illustrations, writing paragraphs and publishing. We then shared our work with Year 1 children, who were also exploring the same text. We loved spending time with the younger children!
What a busy week Year 4 have had! On Monday, the children immersed themselves in a history workshop. They created different arts and crafts, dances, role plays and much more! The children learnt about key historical figures and busted some myths around this time period.
Later on in the week, they took part in another workshop focusing on their mental well-being and how healthy foods and exercise can help this.
We immersed ourselves in ancient history in our recent Amazing Ancient Egyptians Workshop. We were invited to wear Ancient Egyptian-style clothing and became citizens of Ancient Egypt for the day. The morning was full of engaging activities, such as writing with inks on papyrus using hieroglyphics, sculpting canopic jars which were used in the process of mummification and even creating ancient Egyptian perfumes consisting of a ball of wax infused with fragrant herbs which was placed on the head to melt in the sun. We ended our day with a lavish feast and performances of dances and plays depicting Ancient Egyptian stories. We are looking forward to our Geography learning about the River Nile which will lead on perfectly from this!
What a wonderful start to 2025 we have had in year 4! Rowan class have dived straight into their swimming for the term and have impressed the teachers with their attitude to trying a new challenge! In science this week, we looked at how sound travels and answered the big question; does sound travel through solids? We created our own ear bongs to help us answer the question. And we concluded the answer is YES! Sound does travel through solids.
Over the last few weeks, year 4 have been very busy with lots of different activities going on. We took part in a fun Children In Need morning where David Lyon came and delivered a fitness session. We had a great time burning lots of energy and having fun with our friends, all for a wonderful charity. Thank you adults for your contributions!
In PSHE, we have continued our learning in our unit of 'celebrating differences'. We made clear classes to help us see clearly and not make assumptions or prejudgements about people just by how they look.
We are very much looking forward to the festive fun in the next few weeks!
We have had a lovely start to the second half of the Autumn Term in Year 4. In maths, we have been developing our understanding and recall of multiplication and division and have been putting the manipulatives to good use to check and prove our ideas when solving problems. In PSHE we have been celebrating our differences and used the story 'Along Came a Different' to inspire a celebrating difference poster activity. We acknowledged anti-bullying week with a live assembly and activities and of course, wearing 'odd socks' along with the rest of the school. We also created mixed media silhouette artwork as part of our activities in recognition of Remembrance Day.
To celebrate Black History month year 4 have been creating portraits and biography poems all about Mary Jackson and the legacy she has created through Science, engineering and mathematics. We used our sketching skills and drew her step by step. We also learnt key facts and used them to create a poem.
A very busy few weeks in Year 4! We took part in a Greek workshop to immerse ourselves in our History topic! We put on plays, made mosaics, herbal medicine and even learnt traditional dances!
We started off our DT by looking at how structures are made by using toothpicks and sweets. Children worked together to make the structure of a pavilion. In the next few weeks, we will be making our own pavilions based on a theme! Stay tuned to see the final outcome!
Lastly, we filled the corridor with smells of oregano, olives and onions! We made Greek salads focusing on key skills such as chopping, grating and measuring!
Year four have really enjoyed using drama and music to develop their descriptive writing. We used body percussion and musical instruments to create a soundscape of a storm in our classroom. We then used this experience to develop vocabulary which we will be using in our writing.
In Maths we have been learning about rounding and using this alongside our calculations to check for accuracy. We have been working towards mastery using maths equipment and a range of representations to represent, explain and prove our ideas.
WOW! What a wonderful start to the year we have had in year 4. We have explored the book 'Bottled' all based around our feelings and the importance of sharing our emotions. We were inspired by this book and Picasso to create artwork based around cubism.
To begin, in our unit of Literacy, we were visited by Timmy! We asked lots of questions and were very excited by our furry friend. We can not wait to see what else Autumn has in store for year 4!
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