Wednesday was Sports day! Everyone participated in at least one race and it was wonderful to watch the competitiveness, enthusiasm and sportsmanship displayed by all of the children.

Take a look at some of the action shots…

We have had a great start to our final half term in Year 4.

n Maths, we have begun our new topic on Shapes. We discussed the mindblowing fact that a square is actually a retangle!

Writing introduced our new topic based on an evil character description. During our warm-ups we have been researching and using new vocabulary. The class also had a competition to see who could guess Miss Chadwick’s sentence.

To begin our new Science topic on ‘States of Matter’ we discussed properties and their states. We explored new vocabulary of Solid, Liquid and Gas. Next, we made some Ooblek (cornstarch and water if you want to try at home!) and talked about how it fluctuates between solid and liquid. Ooblek changes its viscosity based on the force applied to it. Here are some pictures of the mess we made…

Today, we visited the Science Fair and had the opportunity to see all of the wonderful experiments made. Some of our class also presented theirs!

On Wednesday, we all wore green in support of Mental Health Week. We also did a circle time where I gave every child a compliment and every child gave another person a compliment!

In Art, we have been practising our fine motor skills and made Roman-inspired mosaics!

Year 4 took part in a fun Geography activity where the children completed an orienteering challenge outside. They worked in teams to read simple maps and follow directions around the school grounds. We enjoyed exploring outdoors while developing our navigation and teamwork skills!

For our summer trip, we visited the Yorkshire Showground for ‘Country Side days’.

We took part in a range of workshops centred on life in the countryside where we explored sustainable Christmas trees and made decorations, learned how to make simple bags, watched birds of prey as red kites swooped over us, visited a mobile farm with goats and donkeys, spent time brushing the donkeys and finished with a hilarious yet insightful sheep show that showed us more about farming and animal care. We also took part in an orienteering activity and had to navigate ourselves around the woodland!

Birds of Prey

Mobile Farm

Christmas Decorations

Orienteering

Sheep Show

Tractors

Bag Making

In Maths, we have started our new topic, Money. Today we explored the value of coins and how to identify them without looking at the number. We had discussions based on their colour, shape and size, and pupils enjoyed comparing the different coins and explaining their reasoning. Next, we connected our learning to writing amounts as decimals, making links to place value. We used lots of manipulatives to support our understanding and had a competition to see how many ways we could make £7.41. It was great to see pupils working collaboratively and explaining their thinking clearly.

In Music and Computing, 4C have been learning how to use the software GarageBand to create a song. Pupils have been practising on the keyboard and exploring different sounds and instruments within the programme. They have begun to experiment with layering sounds and creating simple rhythms, showing great creativity and enthusiasm.

With our multiplication check just around the corner, we have been playing Blooket regularly to secure our multiplication facts. The class have shown excellent determination and are becoming much quicker and more confident. Please do continue to practise at home. Have a game with your family to see who will win!

This week our learning in Writing, Science and reading has been centred around food chains! We have explored the terms ‘prey’ and ‘predator’ and what that means. We also built food webs and talked about what might happen if one part of the web broke down, helping us to understand how living things depend on each other within an ecosystem.

In Maths, we are continuing with our decimals topic and have learnt how to partition these numbers in place value as well as flexibly!

This week we have explored 4-figure grid references in Geography. We practised reading grid squares by moving along the corridor first and then up the stairs, helping us to identify the correct easting and northing.

We welcomed Routes and Roots this week for a photography session and a creative writing workshop. Pupils learned about labyrinths and explored their meaning and structure. They designed and drew their own labyrinths before using them as inspiration for poetry. Each pupil created a poem and carefully wrote it around the path of their labyrinth.

Because of the sunny weather, we took advantage and read our new class novel The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane outside!

It has been lovely to welcome 4C back into the classroom this week. I have missed them immensely!

We got stuck into our new writing topic with information texts. We have found out all about ‘The Bearnafish!’. Similarly, in Reading we have explored a range of information texts to study the different features which make up an information text such as: subheadings, Did you Know facts and photos with captions!

We have begun our new Geography topic. This week, we focused on learning about compasses, understanding north and south, and discovering the Equator. The children enjoyed exploring how the world is divided and learning how these directions help us to locate places around the globe. We even had a game of globle using the atlases!

In Art, we have learnt all about the origins of Mosaics. We researched our favourite mosaics and begun a class live art drawing session. We use our iPad as a visualiser and did a live drawing lesson with Miss Chadwick, which was really fun!

Our timetable knowledge is outstanding! Watch how fast some of our pupils are at playing TTRS. I am in awe every time I walk around the classroom whilst they are doing soundchecks! Remember to keep practising at home to aim for 25/25.

This week, we have begun our new Maths topic: Decimals. We have been learning how they represent parts of a whole and connect to the fractions we already know.

In Geography, we have been looking at ecosystems and biomes. The children worked collaboratively in groups to create informative posters about different biomes, sharing ideas and combining their knowledge to present their learning creatively.

Have a lovely half term everybody. Relax, have fun and read!

4C have been working so hard on assesment week so we have delved into our creative side in the afternoons!

We have all built our own night lights in DT! We have created some superb pieces of decoration that will soon be coming home to light up their rooms.

We organised a class litter pick around our school to help reduce pollution and tackle global warming. By working together to clean our environment, we showed how small actions can make a big difference.

We have also learnt about the water cycle in geography, exploring how water ends up in the sky, falling down onto our heads, floating down rivers and ends up back in the ocean. Over the course of this week we have built and observed our own in-house water cycle. See if you can identify any parts of the water cycle from these pictures!