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....
Year 4
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....
08
Sep
Chariot races in Year 4
In Writing, we are exploring a new book - 'Romans on the Rampage'. To immerse ourselves into the book, we pretended to be Romans and took part in a chariot race on the playdeck!...
08
Sep
Exploring measures in Year 4
We have been looking at the number 1000. We have used different types of measures to explore the number, looking at capacity, length and mass....