Struck by Lightning!
We have been 'struck' by your excellent lightning work based on the project we sent you as part of your home learning. Your art work is wonderful and many of you have used a range of techniques and found out some fantastic facts.
If you are still working on this, then please continue to send…
Challenge 1 - Words
Hi Everyone,
We've really enjoyed reading Pobble's '25 non-screen activities' list and wanted to take part. So for number 1 this week, how many words can you make out of the sentence below? We will share the winner next week. Good luck!
'Learning from home is fun'
I can already think of…
Holiday Maths Challenge!
Hi Everyone,
We hope you have had and are having a lovely Easter. Why not try the maths challenge below to see how sharp we all still are?
The bags contain 1s 3s 5s and 7s
Using 10 of any combination of numbers, find as many ways as you can to make 37! Please show us all your answers…
World Book Day!
We LOVE reading at Yarm Primary school so we had to make sure that we took the chance to fully involve ourselves in World Book Day 2020. Of course we also had the chance to see all of us in a range of fantastic costumes (including us staff of course)! We even created our own ‘mobile library’ to…
Spring Maths Sponsorship Challenge
Over the last couple of weeks, Y4 have used some of our maths lessons to make a variety of challenging and creative maths games.
We have incorporated all of our current maths knowledge and even linked some games to our previous topics.
If you are able to take part, children have brought home…
Climate Crisis?
It is the end of another half term and another few weeks of fantastic work, effort and progress. As we leave the mountains behind, we begin to reflect on our climate.
Within our next topic, we will be asking the questions - "Is there a climate crisis?" and "Are we climate leaders?". Through…
Merry Christmas
Thank you for all your support in what has been a long but incredibly productive term.
The children have worked so hard and we hope you all have a well-earned break.
Pre-Learning
In January we are going to be asking 'how high can you climb?' To help with our new 'Mountains' topic, we…
What a Week!
What a busy but enjoyable week we have had in Year 4. We've had elections, immunisations, Christmas performances and still lots of great learning.
As we enter the final stages of our 'Vikings' topic, the children developed their art and D&T skills by producing sketches of Viking helmets and…
Wonderful Writing!
Year 4 have been exploring the magical, traditional and inspiring text of 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane'.
We have focused on grammar - from conjunctions to -ed sentences and also explored character, emotion and plot. The children have produced some wonderful writing, which…
Homework, Reading and Spelling
What a lovely first week back in Year 4!
The children have returned with very positive behaviours for learning and we have already learnt all about perimeter, how the Vikings came to Britain, began some wonderful writing on our new story 'Edward Tulane' and created our own 'fireworks' using…
Times Tables!
We hope you are all having a relaxing and enjoyable half term!
We’re all about times tables in Year 4 as they are so important in building understanding in maths.
Moreover, by the end of the year, the children are expected to be able to quickly recall all their times tables to 12x12.
To…
Jarrow Hall Adventure!
Welcome to the Year 4 blog 19-20!
We have already learnt so much over the last few weeks and have been so pleased with how the children have settled into their new classes.
Through our history topic, we have explored the life and times of Anglo Saxon Britain. To support this, the children…