13
May
News reporters in Year 4
This week, we will begin writing a newspaper report based on a tale from the ‘Tales of China book. In preparation, we worked in groups to create our own news reports....
Year 4
13
May
Shang Dynasty fact files in Year 4
In topic, we are learning about the Shang Dynasty. This week, we worked in groups to discuss what we have already learnt about the Shang Dynasty and asked questions about what we wanted to find out, e.g. How did the Shang learn? How did the Shang...
06
May
Shang Dynasty in Year 4
In history we are continuing our investigation into Fu Hoa’s tomb. We used our classification and inference skills to organise the artefacts found into groups that could tell us about life in the Shang dynasty. ...
29
Apr
Observing artefacts found in Fu Hao’s tomb in Year 4
In History we took a close look at the artefacts found in Fu Hao’s tomb in the Shang Dynasty. Fu Hoa was a female army leader and she was buried with many valuable items....
29
Apr
Getting back to ‘green’ in Year 4
In PSHE we explored the different zones of regulation and discussed the importance of acknowledging our feelings and understanding that everybody at some point experiences all of the different zones and that is ok. We discussed different strategies of managing our feelings such as breathing...
22
Apr
Willow Pattern Story in Year 4
In writing, we have started reading the beautiful 'Willow Pattern Story' by Allan Drummond. The story is pictured in the very famous willow pattern blue and white crockery still used today. At the start of the week, we immersersed ourselves into the story and made...
01
Apr
Playscripts inspired by ‘A River’ by Marc Martin in Year 4
This week in Writing, our learning objective is to write a play script. In preparation for this, we immersed ourselves in play scripts by acting them out, explored and identified features of them and planned our own based on the book ‘A River’ by Marc...
01
Apr
Testing circuits in Year 4
This week as part of our science enquiry, we devised a fair test to see what variables could impact the brightness of a bulb in a circuit....
25
Mar
Investigating area using manipulatives in Year 4
In maths we were investigating area using manipulative, we challenged ourselves to see how many different shapes we could make with an area of 7 squares of the same size....
25
Mar
Geoboards in Year 4
We have loved learning about area this week using technology. We have learnt that area is the space inside a closed two-dimensional shape. We have been calculating area, comparing area and making our own shapes of a certain area using Geoboard on Braining Camp....