Year 4
Year 4 visit to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Year 4s visited the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park in Autumn 1 as part of our Geography learning. We made comparisons between human and physical features. The children had the opportunity to see the local area from a different perspective.
Viking Art Workshop – Year 4
As part of our learning in Art, we explored sculpture making. We made links to the Anglo Saxons and Vikings and used the skills that we had learned to create a pendant using the runic alphabet and also made a Viking warrior.
Year 4 visit to the Science Museum
As part of our Science topics Electricity and Sound in Autumn term, Year 4 had an excellent opportunity to visit the Science Museum. We were able to see the innovation in information and communication technology and how it has transformed over the years. We were lucky to see the first transatlantic communication. We also saw …
Year 4 Half Term Homework
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Year 4 Gardening & Harvesting
During the first week back, our Year 4 pupils visited the Roof Gardens and Greenhouse to discover how pumpkins produce grow on a vine; why they are green, and why some big/small sizes. The pupils learnt how long it takes for a pumpkin grow; how much water they need; the colour of pumpkin seeds …
Vikings & Anglo Saxons!
History was brought of the page and into real life as pupils in Year 4 participated in the Vikings / Anglo-Saxons ‘History Off The Page’ workshop. The pupils learnt about the different jobs and types of valuable goods made during the era; as well as becoming archaeologists and digging up treasures! Lots of fun was …
The White Fox
Year 4 have been reading the Take One Book story of ‘The White Fox’. They were tasked with writing the story from the Fox’s point of view. Pamela from 4D and Miriam from 4R did a really good job, using paragraphs, imagery and fronted adverbials.
Poetry in Year 4
Year 4 have been looking at Poetry in English. They are in the process of creating poems about someone they remember. This week they completed their Hot Task. Here we have Sam’s poem from 4R and Apsora’s poem from 4D.
Y4 Sculpture Project
As part of their Art curriculum, the pupils in Year 4 worked with Artsgeneration to create colourful modroc sculptures of chameleons inspired by Mexican folk art and the energetic work of the Colombian artist Gustavo Ramirez Cruz.
Year 4 Science Topic
Water transportation in plants Method 1: ‘Walking water’ activity to show how water from one container can be transported into another to show ‘capillary action’. What is ‘capillary action? Where water uses fibres (in teh case of plants, stem fibres) to transport itself upward. Method 2: Cut flowers were used and left …
