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  • Latest news in Year 4

    Published 31/10/24, by Andy Mari

    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.  

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  • Ancient Greeks in Year 4

    Published 13/10/24, by Andy Mari

    A very busy few weeks in Year 4! We took part in a Greek workshop to  immerse ourselves in our History topic! We put on plays, made mosaics, herbal medicine and even learnt traditional dances! 

    We started off our DT by looking at how structures are made by using toothpicks and sweets. Children worked together to make the structure of a pavilion. In the next few weeks, we will be making our own pavilions based on a theme! Stay tuned to see the final outcome! 

    Lastly, we filled the corridor with smells of oregano, olives and onions! We made Greek salads focusing on key skills such as chopping, grating and measuring! 

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  • latest news in Year 4.

    Published 28/09/24, by Andy Mari

    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.

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  • Welcome to Year 4!

    Published 15/09/24, by Andy Mari

    WOW! What a wonderful start to the year we have had in year 4. We have explored the book 'Bottled' all based around our feelings and the importance of sharing our emotions. We were inspired by this book and Picasso to create artwork based around cubism. 

    To begin, in our unit of Literacy, we were visited by Timmy! We asked lots of questions and were very excited by our furry friend. We can not wait to see what else Autumn has in store for year 4! 

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  • Latest news in Year 4

    Published 15/06/24, by Andy Mari

    Year 4 have been busy revising their times tables this week. They have had fun playing a game with playing cards linked to this. We have also been exploring area and perimeter.

    In preparation for our art workshop next week with Amanda Jewitt, we have been researching a number of artists and artwork linked to a theme – sealife. This has allowed us to learn that art is often used to raise awareness about important issues such as protecting the oceans.

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  • Latest news in Year 4

    Published 29/05/24, by Andy Mari

     Rowan and Cedar have shown lots of enthusiasm during lessons for their summer term topics. 

    We have been developing drawing skills, including the use of techniques such as hatching and shading as well as charcoal and drawing with an eraser to create realistic 3d drawings of compositions involving everyday items. We have also used collage techniques to begin to explore printing techniques and are looking forward to experimenting with wax resist techniques before designing and creating our final outcomes.

    All Year 4 pupils have been busily practising and applying rapid recall of multiplication facts little and often throughout the week. The Year 4 team have been very impressed with the effort and enthusiasm shown towards this. Well done Year 4 and keep the great effort going! This will definitely support the upcoming Multiplication Tables check in June.

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  • Latest news in Year 4

    Published 11/05/24, by Andy Mari

    Year 4 have been busy completing their torch projects. They went back to their plans and then used different materials to clad their torch to help it fit the design brief. They then had the difficult job of putting their circuit into the housing without breaking the circuit. Lots of perseverance was needed at this point! We were really impressed with the creativity of the children and how they added extra features such as handles to their designs.

    In Maths, we have been using our work on decimals and applying this to money. The children have used their rounding skills to estimate before calculating worded problems. We have had lots of discussions about the relevance of this and how it is useful in real life experiences. 

    In Literacy, we have started to write a story based on the book called The Whale by Ethan and Vita Murrow. We started this unit by carrying out our own research about whales. We also had another experience day where we used items in a backpack to discover more about the main character in our story. Then, we made predictions about the choices she might make in the story.    

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  • Latest news in Year 4

    Published 27/04/24, by Andy Mari

    Year four have enjoyed kicking off the summer term with investigating, designing and making their own torches. We re used plastic bottles and applied our learning in Science lessons to create and add an electrical circuit including switches we made ourselves using cardboard, paper fasteners and paper clips. We are looking forward to including additional design features as our next step. 

    In computing, we have been animators and so far have investigated different types of animation and learnt about some features of animation programs, such as 'onion skinning' (a technique to see and work with several frames at once).

    In music lessons, we have been appraising songs by the Beatles and accompanying these with singing and instruments. We are really looking forward to creating our own compositions linked to these songs.

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  • Latest news from Year 4

    Published 02/04/24, by Andy Mari

    We have enjoyed completing our Egyptian scrolls and are really proud of the fact that in addition to composing and adding our individual designs, we actually constructed the paper for our scrolls ourselves in a way that the Ancient Egyptians would’ve created paper from papyrus for writing on!
    In PE, we are also putting our cricket skills and knowledge into practise and this has also been a great opportunity to build on our teamwork skills.
    We thoroughly enjoyed investigating bubbles with our enquiry question ‘Which temperature of water would make the best bubble bath?’ Our results proved warm water to be the best! The Easter activities provided in our Easter-themed workshop provided by students from Oaklands college were ‘eggcellent’ and plenty of fun was had by all who attended!

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  • Latest news in Year 4

    Published 15/03/24, by Andy Mari

    Last week, we were lucky enough to have an author visit. David Owen shared some of his books with us and spoke to us about his journey to becoming an author and his inspiration for writing his books.

    As part of World Book Day, we read a book called The Tower. Further to this, will delved deeper into the characters and had fun using drama to explore the conversations the children might have had with the tree man. We then went on to gather natural materials and created our own tree characters.  

    This week Year 4 started the week with a webinar session for British Science week. We enjoyed hearing from a STEM Ambassador, Liz Tinlin, who introduced us to how the planet has changed hugely over its long life and continues to change. We found out about the planet formation, surface erosion, plate tectonics, volcanoes, and even meteorite impacts. 

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  • Latest news in Year 4

    Published 02/03/24, by Andy Mari

    Year 4 have enjoyed settling back into school after the half term break.  In Literacy, we have been completing our letters to a famous author and have enjoyed learning about persuasive writing techniques. We are now looking forward to planning and writing letters to our chosen authors to see if we can persuade them to visit our school to further promote reading for enjoyment at home and school!

    In Art, we have been learning about how plants grown on the banks of the River Nile were used to make paper called Papyrus. We immersed ourselves in making our own 'Ancient Egyptian' style paper which we will then apply our designs to.

    We thoroughly enjoyed our Ancient Egyptians history workshop just before the half term break and launched into our new geography topic about the River Nile by looking at different types of maps which included the River Nile. We applied this to a team puzzle task which required us to identify features of the River Nile such as the delta, mouth and source and use this knowledge to piece together deconstructed maps. We are geographers!

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  • Busy time in Year 4

    Published 10/02/24, by Andy Mari

    This week in Year 4 we have been writing our own playscripts. Whilst in the Egyptian section of the British  museum, two mummies woke up and Year 4 had to decide what adventures they would have in Stevenage. Some chose for the chaos to commence in the bowling alley, Gravity and the cinema. We had great fun using the features of playscripts to write about our characters adventures.

    In art, we have continued to look at artwork and patterns from Ancient Egypt art. We have now started to design and plan our own scrolls based on the theme ‘ourselves’ We thought carefully about how to compose our designs and experimented with colours that we thought would work well together. We had to think carefully about the colours we picked as the Egyptians used mainly browns, reds, blues and yellows.

    As part of Safer internet day, we thought about the things that we need to do to make sure we are safe when using technology. Then, we listened to some raps about internet safety before we had a go at writing our own to share our messages. It was great fun thinking of the rhyming couplets and having a go at performing them in a rap style

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