Author: year4

Hello and welcome to Year 4.

We are really looking forward to the start of the new academic year and welcoming the children into the classrooms.

This term is packed with lots of new learning, which we are excited to share with the children. You can see below an overview of the term and the wide variety of different areas we will be covering.

Here is a copy of our first set of KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts).  More information will be shared about these throughout the term.

We are really looking forward to the year ahead.  If you have any questions, please contact your child’s class teacher.

Many thanks,

Year 4 team

How have we reached the final term already?

Here is an overview of what we will be learning this term.

Our KIRFs for this term.

We celebrated Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday by dressing up as animals and explorers.  During the day, we learned about his life and his career.  We also watched a special live assembly.

 

It was fantastic to have Sammy come to talk about his footballing experiences with some of the big clubs and to show the children some of the things he and his twin brother, Charlie, have been up to.

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Sammy went on to demonstrate the knuckleball skills with the children outside in the sunshine and they had about 45 minutes practising together.

 

Here is the overview of what we will be learning this term.

Here are the KIRFs that we will be focusing on this term:

Here is a selection of our Easter Bonnets.

 

This term, we explored the cog ‘to give’.  We explored what kindness means to us.  We also made cards and wrote letters to the people who we appreciate most.  Finally, we shared positive comments about each other.

We had a fantastic Ancient Egyptian day. The Living Workshop really brought ancient Egypt to life for us.  We made our own cartouches by sanding down the metal and engraving our initials in hieroglyphics.  We played Tomb Raider, carved our own figures, wrote our own afterlife spells on papyrus paper, weaved with reeds, ground grain to make flour, learned how to play a game called Senet, took part in an artefact quiz, mummified apples and lots more!

We had great fun carving sculptures out of soap for our art topic this term.

Here are some of the finished products.

 

We carried out a number of investigations.  The first investigation involved putting eggs in water.  In a glass of water, the egg sank.  When we added salt, the egg floated because it made the water denser.  The salty water pushes it up more.  This is like the Dead Sea.

We put food colouring into milk.  The colours mixed.  When we added soap on a cotton bud, they shot away and swirled.  This is because milk contains fat and the soap started to break down the fat molecules.

 

We explored different designs of paper planes and spinners to see which would stay in the air the longest or go the further.  We also tested different materials and size.