To finish off our DT project, year 4 created the housing of their torches that their adults helped them to create. Children used different materials and thought about the design specifications to ensure they created a fully functional torch with a simple circuit. We are certain we have lots of electricians on our hands! Great work Year 4! 

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What a busy week Year 4 have had! On Monday, the children immersed themselves in a history workshop. They created different arts and crafts, dances, role plays and much more! The children learnt about key historical figures and busted some myths around this time period. 

Later on in the week, they took part in another workshop focusing on their mental well-being and how healthy foods and exercise can help this. 

We immersed ourselves in ancient history in our recent Amazing Ancient Egyptians Workshop. We were invited to wear Ancient Egyptian-style clothing and became citizens of Ancient Egypt for the day. The morning was full of engaging activities, such as writing with inks on papyrus using hieroglyphics, sculpting canopic jars which were used in the process of mummification and even creating ancient Egyptian perfumes consisting of a ball of wax infused with fragrant herbs which was placed on the head to melt in the sun. We ended our day with a lavish feast and performances of dances and plays depicting Ancient Egyptian stories. We are looking forward to our Geography learning about the River Nile which will lead on perfectly from this!

Over the last few weeks, year 4 have been very busy with lots of different activities going on. We took part in a fun Children In Need morning where David Lyon came and delivered a fitness session. We had a great time burning lots of energy and having fun with our friends, all for a wonderful charity. Thank you adults for your contributions! 

In PSHE, we have continued our learning in our unit of 'celebrating differences'. We made clear classes to help us see clearly and not make assumptions or prejudgements about people just by how they look. 

We are very much looking forward to the festive fun in the next few weeks! 

To celebrate Black History month year 4 have been creating portraits and biography poems all about Mary Jackson and the legacy she has created through Science, engineering and mathematics. We used our sketching skills and drew her step by step. We also learnt key facts and used them to create a poem.  

Year four have really enjoyed using drama and music to develop their descriptive writing. We used body percussion and musical instruments to create a soundscape of a storm in our classroom. We then used this experience to develop vocabulary which we will be using in our writing.

In Maths we have been learning about rounding and using this alongside our calculations to check for accuracy. We have been working towards mastery using maths equipment and a range of representations to represent, explain and prove our ideas.