04
Nov
Making pop up books in Year 4
This week in Design Technology we have been exploring different mechanisms to design and make our own pop up books....
Year 4
20
Oct
Exploring how to keep a ‘Positive Classroom’ in Year 4
In PSHE this week, we had a discussion about how important a positive classroom environment is and how we can help to create it individually and collectively. Together with our teacher, we created our own learning charter that we all agreed to follow by signing...
20
Oct
Performance poetry in Year 4
In Year 4 in our writing, we analysed poetry and put on some amazing performances. Next we will be writing our own and performing them....
14
Oct
Writing persuasive letters from someone else’s point of view in Year 4
We have been exploring the book ‘Emmanuel’s Dream’, an inspiring story about a young boy born with one deformed leg who later became a cyclist, riding an astonishing 400 miles across Ghana! This week we wrote letters from the point of view of Emmanuel to...
07
Oct
Maya Angelou poetry in Year 4
We explored the poetry of Maya Angelou for Black History Month. We annotated her poems in groups and put on performances which we hope you’ll enjoy during our culture evening....
07
Oct
Debating ‘Is Junk Food Suitable for Children?’ in Year 4
In Writing, we are looking into persuasive techniques to prepare us for writing a letter next week. To prepare us for this, we took part in a class debate. Our topic was: Is junk food suitable for children? Where we had to come up with...
29
Sep
Exploring 4 digit Numbers in Year 4
We are exploring 4 digit numbers in Maths. We broke them down and are now rounding them to different place values!...
23
Sep
Raisin dance investigation in Year 4
In Science we have been investigating the properties of solids, liquids and gases. We used raisins to make them 'dance' as the gas in the fizzy water made the solid move with the bubbles....
16
Sep
Weighing ice and water experiment in Year 4
This half term we are looking at 'changes of matter 'in Science. We did an experiment to see if the weight of ice changes when it melts to water. Ask us what the results were!...
16
Sep
Exploring multiples of 100 in Year 4
In our Maths lessons, we have been exploring different strategies we can use to add multiples of 100. We used different practical resources to help us....