Term 2 Week 3
We paused our work on the Iron Man briefly this week to do some reading comprehension practice. The children read three different styles of text and answered a variety of questions based on those texts. The children worked well on this and are showing improvement. For Big Write this week, we took the opportunity to […]
Term 2 Week 2
Community sprit has been high this week: on Tuesday, year 4 joined the rest of the school in showing their respect to soldiers (past and present) by observing a 2 minute silence followed by listening to The Last Post. Thursday was World Kindness day, the children enjoyed a special assembly from Mr Spencer and made […]
Term 2
Year 4 have had a great first week back. We have been awarding lots of team points for the additional homework, the children have until next Friday to hand in any remaining pieces. Excellent work on the battle, there were some truly spectacular scores! In the end 4JM/KC were victorious. The top scorers were for […]
Times table games
We have been working hard to improve our speed at answering times table questions. Here are a selection of games that your child might enjoy playing to help them with this as well as some songs to help them to learn them. Enjoy! The Year 4 team Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise […]
Week 8
Well done year 4 for a great last week of term! Year 4 had a lot of fun in our big maths sessions, taking part in a variety of activities in our carousels this morning. This has concluded our addition and subtraction unit. Next term we will be looking at multiplication and division and how […]
Week 7
What a busy week year 4 have had! On Monday, the children enjoyed making a lot of noise in the ‘Sounds Rubbish’ workshop and all looked amazing for their individual photos on Tuesday. Friday was our busiest day with groups of children taking part in their sponsored football matches and our year group activity. The […]
Week 6
Year 4 have written some amazing descriptions of the main character from the story of the Dream Giver this week, as well as mapping out the story. This activity really helped the children to pin-point the key events of the story. Next week, the children will be changing elements of the story to make their […]
Week 5
This week, year 4 have done a fantastic job bringing together all of their learning about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius into a final newspaper report, they look amazing! For our Big Write session, we looked at a short film where a creature called the Dream Giver delivers pleasant dreams to children by cracking glowing […]
Week 4
This week the children have enjoyed creating colourful art work to brighten up our hall display while learning about the artist Piet Mondrian. They used rulers and the primary colours to recreate this unique style. In literacy, the children have been learning about the key features of newspapers and have begun to plan the first […]
Week 3
This week year 4 have been diving deeper into their extreme earth topic by writing a description of an erupting volcano as well as getting hands on with their learning by making their own volcanoes using some basic household ingredients with some fun and explosive results! The children are continuing to work hard on their […]
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