Year 4

Congratulations to Niamh who is one of 5 runners up in the Little Inventors:Pioneers Competition that we entered earlier in the school year. Her idea is called 'Pitch Black'. Niamh explains, "When you go into a room and are going to turn on the light, you need to put the pointer in the tube so…

Year 4 have had a busy start to the term. We have written explanation texts on how mountains are formed, created mountain landscapes in Art and begun our 'Climb Mount Everest' challenge. Lots more exciting learning to come. Welcome back everybody! How high will you climb this term? With our focus…

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 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…

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…

Year 4 have been very busy this week engaging in lots of cross-curricular activities linked to our Viking topic. We studied the the design and characteristics of Viking shields and then created our own versions. We also looked at how archaeologists and scientists work together to find out about…

Year 4 reinforced their understanding of the need to be safe on or near our roads by designing Parking Pals to encourage young children to stay safely on the pavement when exiting the family car. We tried to think designs that would engage the children and keep them amused whilst waiting for…

Year 4 visited our local secondary school today for a lesson on light and sound. We had great fun exploring sound waves and learning how light travels. We were able to view the spectrum of light by wearing light refracting goggles and observed how light can be reflected by using a laser beam. We…

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…

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…

Year 4 had a very busy afternoon using our DT skills to design and make a model of an Anglo-Saxon village to match the one we experienced at Jarrow Hall Museum. We all worked together as a team to make the individual pieces which were placed on our baseboard. There was lots of excellent…

Year 4 pupils have been very busy in Science lessons entering the Pioneers Little Inventors competition. We were delighted to discover that many of our energy saving inventions have been uploaded onto the Little Inventors website with comments and encouragement from the real scientists. It has…