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8 May 2020

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…

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1 May 2020

Y is for Yellow, Yarn...

Very creative work today from the Key Worker children in school. Our alphabet letter of the day was 'Y'. We made yellow sunflower pictures and friendship bracelets with yarn. Well done, children.

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24 April 2020

T is for...tessellations, tracing, time trials and treasure hunt

Our Keyworker children were very busy today learning about tessellations and tracing and Maths Treasure Hunt challenges. We then had some athletic time trials and timed ourselves running 90 metres. Well done, everybody!

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21 April 2020

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…

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15 April 2020

Easter Eggs and Chocolate

Year 4 Children have been busy over Easter, keeping up with their Home Learning. Here is a poem written by one of our girls. I think she may have had too much chocolate!

Sweet Glory Rebel

The bitter crunch makes kids go munch.

Kids love chocolate very much 

Gummies are nice, but…

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13 April 2020

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…

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25 March 2020

Exciting Learning Opportunities

Hello, Year 4,

I hope you are working hard at your daily lessons and finding time to take part in the various online resources we have suggested. We keep a close look at the Stats on Times Tables Rockstars and Sumdog - don't forget there are also spelling and reading options on Sumdog - please…

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11 March 2020

British Science Week 2020 - Our Diverse Planet

As part of our work for British Science Week, Year 4 have been testing different materials to see if they were good thermal insulators. We then designed a prototype for a thermal jacket that could be worn in Antarctica using the best materials. Our designs were excellent and included lots of extra…

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6 March 2020

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…

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29 February 2020

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…

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14 February 2020

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…

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9 February 2020

NSPCC Number Day

Year 4 enjoyed our NSPCC Number Day Challenges. We collected  a very large jar of 2p and 1p coins and used them to complete lots of predicting, measuring and weighing challenges, before trying out other games and puzzles connected with money. Learning about money was lots of fun and the money we…

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