Image of Year 4 - Silver Award Winners Celebrations
23 June 2019

Year 4 - Silver Award Winners Celebrations

My, My! What a day for our amazing school and team. We all enjoyed the fantastic event put on my SLT. 

We will never forget this special day!

 

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Image of Year 4 - Refugee Day
23 June 2019

Year 4 - Refugee Day

During our Refugee Day, we looked into why people are Refugee's and what they were seeking refuge from. We put ourselves in the shoes of Refugee children  to think about what we would take with us if we could pick 1 special object. We discussed why that was so important to us an why we would need…

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Image of Year 4 - Living things in their habitat.
5 June 2019

Year 4 - Living things in their habitat.

 To kick start our new Science topic, of Living things in their habitat, we went to explore our playground to see what living things we could find in our environment. We have set up a worm and ant farm into our classroom to see how those insects work in their own habitat. We #enjoyed and #embraced…

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Image of Year 4 - Elmer's Birthday Artsmark Celebration
5 June 2019

Year 4 - Elmer's Birthday Artsmark Celebration

What fun we have had today! The children #enjoyed our celebration of Elmer's 30th Birthday. We #embraced working in the style of the artist, Wassily Kandinsky, looking at creating repeated circle pattern. We #evolved our understanding of how unique and special we all our, understanding that…

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Image of Year 4 - Outdoor Learning
24 May 2019

Year 4 - Outdoor Learning

Today, Year 4 embarked on their next Outdoor Learning session. With an Art focus, the children were tasked with creating sculptures using things found in our environment. We looked at the artist Andy Goldsworthy, a nature artist, for inspiration. We really #enjoyed looking at his work using…

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Image of History - Ancient Egyptian Timeline
21 May 2019

History - Ancient Egyptian Timeline

Today we looked at the timeline of events from Ancient Egypt. We started off using just visual images and small information to see if we could guess what order the timeline went, using clues from the descriptions. We then went back into class and learned about the dates, as they were in BC. We…

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Image of Locating Egypt
21 May 2019

Locating Egypt

Through our History theme of the Egyptians, the children used their mapping skills to identify where Egypt was on a world map. Once we found it was in Africa, we had a look at the surrounding areas to see what it was like. Plus, took advance of working out in the sunshine! 

 

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Image of Experimenting with Evaportation
21 May 2019

Experimenting with Evaportation

As part of our Solids, Liquids and Gases theme in Science, the children where investigating to see if the heat effected the rate in which liquids evaporate. We positioned some damp cloths around our environment, in different places, and used thermometers to gather an idea of temperature. We looked…

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Image of Outdoor Learning Fun
21 May 2019

Outdoor Learning Fun

Today the children took part in another outdoor learning session on our school field. We used and developed our communication skills to work together and solve problems. We even had a go a flying kites! Lots of smiles beaming when they finally got them to fly. 

 

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Image of Year 4 Science - Making Cornflour Slime
24 April 2019

Year 4 Science - Making Cornflour Slime

Today, we started our new Science topic of Solids, Liquids and Gases. We looked at the properties of each states of matter and learned about the difference in atoms. 

We then investigated what happens when some solids and liquids are mixed. The children mixed together cornflour and water and…

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Image of Year 4 - St George's Day
23 April 2019

Year 4 - St George's Day

As part of our Arts and Culture day, we have #embraced new ways of working through the theme of St George's Day. 

Through felting, we #enjoyed creating visual arts with materials, creating their own felt art from scratch. 

In Drama, we took on the challenge of acting out a dramatic…

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Image of Year 4 French Tasting
4 April 2019

Year 4 French Tasting

As part of today's French day, Year 4 learned about saying different types of activities in French. We also learned to have a conversation about our families, introducing them and telling people what they are called. 

At the end of the day we had a little tasting of some French pastries such as…

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