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 ! 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

Year 4 would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the adults that joined us to help finish off our torches for our D&T unit. We created electrical circuits and switches to create a sim0le circuit. We then constructed a case for our torch out of plastic bottles and tin foil. We had a wonderful morning working together!