Year 4: Blog items
Date: 14th May 2021 @ 7:55pm
This afternoon, the children designed their own Medusa inspired hair pieces by creating card linkages, loose pivots and a card lever to create a moving hair piece. The children created their prototypes today which went really well.
Date: 14th May 2021 @ 7:46pm
On Monday, year 4 completed a practical activity looking into digestion. As digestion isn't something they can see with their own eyes the children demonstrated all the stages of digestion using crackers, bananas, water, orange juice and tights. The children loved this activity and have learnt a great deal about digestion.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 5:39pm
In year four we have started to make different designs that have levers and linkages involved in order to make them move. We have started to plan and design our own moving design mechanism based Medusa from our previous journey in reading into writing, which was Myths.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 3:35pm
The children took part in their final forest school session of year 4. They spent time building dens, shaving tree branches, doing finger nitting and looking at the tadpoles in the pond. They really enjoyed this session and said how they were all excited to start forest school again in year 5.
Date: 2nd May 2021 @ 4:18pm
On Thursday Year 4 spent time in forest school enjoying the great outdoors. The children spent time building dens and making smores around the fire.
Date: 2nd May 2021 @ 4:11pm
On Friday, year 4 took part in a DT day inspired by the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. The children had to create a healthy snack bar that would be part of a buffet at the Olympic games opening ceremony party. The children started the day by tasting existing snack bars. Later they created a design brief and then began to design their own healthy snack bar. Once the children had created their healthy snack bar they then went into Redcliffe's to make it. To finish the day the children evaluated their designs and took their creations home. The children thoroughly enjoyed their DT day.
Date: 29th Apr 2021 @ 7:58am
Year 4 had a lovely morning yesterday as they had a virtual visitor. The children completed a workshop on Ramadan as part of their topic question of why do Muslims fast during Ramadan. The children learnt more about why Muslims fast during Ramadan, when Muslims break their fast and the special celebration of Eid.
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 4:55pm
Year 4 have started to learn how to program in computing. The children went onto Hour Of Code to complete many computing challenges in a Minecraft style game. The children had to debug some of their coding if they did not complete the challenge correctly. This was to ensure they went onto the next level.
Date: 21st Apr 2021 @ 4:00pm
As it was no pen day on Tuesday the children took part in a relay style maths lesson in which they had to collect parts of a fraction wall. As a team they had to collect all the pieces of the fraction wall to rebuild it on paper. The children thoroughly enjoyed this lesson and worked really hard to complete this task.
Date: 18th Apr 2021 @ 4:09pm
The children have begun learning the basic skills needed to play cricket. The children were working on their reaction speeds by taking part in a simple throwing and catching game with their peers.
Date: 14th Apr 2021 @ 5:17pm
On Monday, year 4 had a great afternoon learning about teeth. The children were able to discuss the three different types of teeth and the role they play in breaking down foods. The children explored this through creating their own teeth using playdough.
Date: 1st Apr 2021 @ 2:23pm
Year 4 have had a great afternoon using their knowledge of music to organise the differences and similarities between ABBA and Elton John's music careers and lives.
Solids, liquids and gases experiment
Date: 29th Mar 2021 @ 3:26pm
In science today the Year 4 predicted what would happen if we mixed together vinegar and baking powder into a bottle, with a balloon attached to the bottle. After the children made their predictions we headed outside to see what would happen. A chemical reaction took place between the vinegar and baking soda which created a gas which blew up the balloon! The children really enjoyed this experiment.
Date: 26th Mar 2021 @ 7:53pm
On Thursday, year 4 spent the afternoon creating their own art based on a short film called 'The Dot' by Peter H Reynolds. The children created some fantastic art that encorporated a black dot. The children are very proud of their creations.
States of matter using Cheerios
Date: 22nd Mar 2021 @ 7:01pm
Year 4 have had a great afternoon today using Cheerios to represent the three states of matter which are solids, liquids and gases. The children were able to identify some of the key characteristics of the three states of matter.
Date: 17th Mar 2021 @ 3:42pm
Year 4 were practising their attacking and defending skills in PE this morning during invasion games. The children communicated well with their peers to support the games they were playing.
Date: 16th Mar 2021 @ 3:50pm
Year 4 had a great morning looking at newspaper articles from the publishers called First News, which is a newspaper for children. We looked at one article together and then they used pens to highlight the key features of another article by First News in pairs.
Date: 15th Mar 2021 @ 12:15pm
On Friday Year 4 were introduced to their new topic in History, which is the Romans. They completed a research task using the chrome books to find out information on the Roman Empire, when the Romans invaded Britain and who Boudicca was.
Date: 9th Mar 2021 @ 5:26pm
Year 4 have had a wonderful WOW afternoon in Geography. The children tasted lots of wonderful food from around the world such as: Mango, brioche, pizza, prawn crackers, dark chocolate and other exciting foods. We discussed where the food was from and spoke about trade and the differing weather conditions which enables certain food to be grown in a specific country.
Year Three and Four loved their first lesson with the Royal Ballet!
Date: 8th Mar 2021 @ 4:43pm
Year Three and Year Four really enjoyed their first lessons this year with Sarah and Rob from the Royal Ballet! They learnt all about the Royal Ballet School at White Lodge and how ballet and lots of its terminology originates from France.
The children learnt some of the main ballet positions and their dance was linked to light which is one of the current Science topics in Lower Key Stage Two. Children learning at home also joined in with the Zoom lesson.
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 8:15am
Year 4 started to write their dilemma stories this week. The children worked really hard thinking of more interesting sentence starters using fronted adverbials. Miss Crystal and Mr Bamber can't wait to read the final pieces! Those children who are still in school during lockdown have the excitement of Forest School every Thursday. It's super cold at the moment, so the children made sure they got that fire started to give them some heat. Well done to those children in Green bubble!
