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7 September 2020

Chocolate Madness

What a start to our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory week! The children have #enjoyed dressing up as their favourite characters today and looking at parts of the book in more detail. We looked at the Chocolate Room and used our senses to start pulling ideas ready for out writing…

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4 September 2020

First Week Back in Year 4!

Wow! Such an amazing start to Year 4 this week. The children have #enjoyed exploring what Year 4 has to offer. We have had a great few days and have #embraced all the changes around school perfectly. 

 

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12 March 2020

Year 4 - Sports Relief Mile

Year 4 #enjoyed their Sports Relief Mile, trying to beat their previous scores. They #embraced the time set aside to complete the mile after their swimming lesson. 

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6 March 2020

Year 4 - World Book Day

Wow, What a day!

Today we #embraced our Harry Potter themed World Book Day. We started the day making a wizards drink, Butter Beer. We #enjoyed watching it fizz like a magic potion. After that, we watched and read the section about The Great Hall. We then wrote exiting, magical setting…

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27 February 2020

Year 4 - Tonal Paintings and Drawings

Year 4 has really #embraced our new art skill of adding tone and shade to our work. Some very impressive pieces created. Take a look at just a few that were ready to photograph. 

 

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27 February 2020

Year 4 - Science

As part of our new science topic this term we will be looking at living things and their habitats. We kickstarted our learning by going on a worm hunt. With a worm house, we will be keeping the worms we found in our classroom this term and seeing how they react in their habitats. The children…

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11 February 2020

Year 4 - Safer Internet Day 2020

Today we looked at the theme of ‘identity’ as part of our Safer Internet Day. We #embraced discussions of how we we can protect our online reputation through creating suitable usernames and avatars. We also looked at what others has put online and judged them based on the way they treat others and…

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Image of Year 4 - Tonal Drawings
10 February 2020

Year 4 - Tonal Drawings

Today Year 4 have #enjoyed experimenting with tone and shade. We started by practising drawing from dark to light and then using our new skills to create a small tonal drawing based on water. 

 

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5 February 2020

Year 4 - Art

Today, we have been investigating a new artist in Year 4. We #embraced the glasswork of Adriana Brinsmead-Stockham. We observed that her work looked like water or eroded rocks. We #enjoyed learning new things about an artist and looking at how we can use some ideas to create our own drawings based…

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29 January 2020

Year 4 - Locating UK Rivers

Year 4’s new geography topic is based on UK Rivers. We #evolved our understanding of atlas’ to help us locate the rivers of the UK and learn what areas they pass through. We #enjoyed working in different ways and starting our new topic. 

 

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Image of Year 4 - Australia Day
29 January 2020

Year 4 - Australia Day

Year 4 #embraced our learning during Australia Day by looking into the recent bush fires. We learned about global warming and the effect it is having on our planet. We #enjoyed creating catchy headlines about the fires and using alliteration or repetition to make them stand…

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Image of Year 4 - Creating a Google logo
16 January 2020

Year 4 - Creating a Google logo

Year 4 have #evolved their programming skills by creating their own Google logos. We programmed the phrase through Scratch, using different sprites to choose our own theme. We really #enjoyed using our programming skills in different ways. 

 

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