A very hands-on week for Year 4 as they stepped back in time to Ancient Egypt. Children fully embraced life as an Ancient Egyptian. Children took part in arts and crafts, role play, dance, plays and a feast!
This week we also started exploring play scripts so that the children can begin to write their own. They thoroughly enjoyed acting and performing the plays.
To kick start 2026 off, Year four have been very busy taking part in different workshops. Firstly, we were visited by a material arts instructor who taught us different moves and even challenged some of us to chop a piece of wood, with our bare hands! Next, we were joined by Mr Moran who spoke to us all about the importance of eating well to support our well-being.
Year 4 have a had a super busy week involving lots of learning and Christmas fun! We went to the church to sing carols and thoroughly enjoyed our trip to the panto!
Over the last few weeks, Year 4 have been very busy in Reading, Science and Geography, working collaboratively together. We have enjoyed using an atlas to locate where our food comes from and then calculating the food miles. We were very shocked to see how far our food had travelled !
Over the last few weeks, year 4 have been very busy carrying out their DT project, making pavilions. Children used glue guns to piece their work together.
This week, we have celebrated Anti-Bullying week by wearing odd socks and carrying out some 'top secret mission' work to put a stop to bullying.
This week, Year 4 have been getting stuck into their new Literacy topic. We followed a set of instructions to create a paper boat. We had to dig deep and find determination, but every child felt incredibly proud of their achievements after. We also used musical instruments to create a sound scape ready for writing about. We thought about vocabulary that went along with it our creation.
What a very busy start we have had to Year 4! Over the last couple of weeks, we have been visited by James Mayhew, who captivated us with his live illustrations and story telling. From this we began to explore his books and generate lots of wonderful vocabulary.
We have kicked-started our new History topic – Anglo-Saxons and are very much looking forward to our workshop.
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Year 4 have really thrown themselves into and enjoyed the end of term activities! This week they had a well-being workshop with a Speaker from the charity MIND. We learnt all about the 5 Ways to Well-being. We took part in a range of fun activities to boost our health and well-being.
Wow! Year 4 have been super busy over the last few weeks. We have taken part in sports week, sports day, Science Day, MasterChef and so much more! The children all showed great teamwork and resilience when working together and all had fun whilst doing so!
For Science day, we made catapults and looked at different objects to see which would make the best flying golden snitch!
This week, we have been Master Chefs. The children created their own seasonal crumble. They had to peel, chop, weigh and mix their ingredients. The children worked very hard and thoroughly enjoyed tasting their delicious creations.
This week Year 4 have started their new Literacy topic. To begin with we have carried out lots of research on the digestive system and recreated the process by using food, orange juice to represent stomach acid, a plastic bag to represent the stomach, tights for the small intestine and a cup with an opening for the large intestine! As you can imagine, things got pretty gross! What a fun hands on Literacy lesson we had! The last couple of weeks have been very busy in year 4 with trips to a botanical garden and VE Day celebrations!
We launched our new Science topic called 'Human Impact' with an enquiry into pollution around our school. We carried out a litter pick and analysed the results. We found out that the most common waste was plastic, with lots of this coming from wrappers from break-time snacks. We discussed next steps that could help with this and created posters to remind everyone about the steps that we need to take to reduce this. In Maths, we have enjoyed using our knowledge of measures for length, mass and volume to convert and compare measurements and solve problems. In Literacy, we have enjoyed designing hybrid characters and settings for our narrative writing based on the animation "The Lost Thing" and are looking forward to using these ideas in our next independent write.
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