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.

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! 

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! 

 Rowan and Cedar have shown lots of enthusiasm during lessons for their summer term topics. 

We have been developing drawing skills, including the use of techniques such as hatching and shading as well as charcoal and drawing with an eraser to create realistic 3d drawings of compositions involving everyday items. We have also used collage techniques to begin to explore printing techniques and are looking forward to experimenting with wax resist techniques before designing and creating our final outcomes.

All Year 4 pupils have been busily practising and applying rapid recall of multiplication facts little and often throughout the week. The Year 4 team have been very impressed with the effort and enthusiasm shown towards this. Well done Year 4 and keep the great effort going! This will definitely support the upcoming Multiplication Tables check in June.

Year four have enjoyed kicking off the summer term with investigating, designing and making their own torches. We re used plastic bottles and applied our learning in Science lessons to create and add an electrical circuit including switches we made ourselves using cardboard, paper fasteners and paper clips. We are looking forward to including additional design features as our next step. 

In computing, we have been animators and so far have investigated different types of animation and learnt about some features of animation programs, such as 'onion skinning' (a technique to see and work with several frames at once).

In music lessons, we have been appraising songs by the Beatles and accompanying these with singing and instruments. We are really looking forward to creating our own compositions linked to these songs.

Last week, we were lucky enough to have an author visit. David Owen shared some of his books with us and spoke to us about his journey to becoming an author and his inspiration for writing his books.

As part of World Book Day, we read a book called The Tower. Further to this, will delved deeper into the characters and had fun using drama to explore the conversations the children might have had with the tree man. We then went on to gather natural materials and created our own tree characters.  

This week Year 4 started the week with a webinar session for British Science week. We enjoyed hearing from a STEM Ambassador, Liz Tinlin, who introduced us to how the planet has changed hugely over its long life and continues to change. We found out about the planet formation, surface erosion, plate tectonics, volcanoes, and even meteorite impacts.