In Literacy we used where’s wally pictures to see how important it is to describe noun’s. We began by looking for the clown in the picture, the picture was full of clowns so we had to add in more description. Can you find the red clown, and then the red clown with yellow buttons, the red clown with yellow buttons and blue and white striped trousers. We used these skills to describe the old woman in our story. The children came up with super descriptions!
The police came to visit to tell us how important 999 calls are and the dangers of prank calls. They also discussed graffiti and the importance of looking after the environment. The children listened very carefully.
On Tuesday morning Year 4 had their ignite on electricity!
It was called an electricity lego building workshop and gave the children a real life context of where electricity is needed!
We had a great morning of building houses out of lego, making circuits using a battery, wires and a bulb to light up the houses, as well as making our own small villages per class with roads.
4b worked together excellently. They showed excellent team work skills, supporting each other in their building and also structuring their village together so that it looked attractive and lit up.
Some of the children build more than one building, adding in boat houses, gardens and a lighthouse!
Attention Year 4, make sure you remember to dress up as a book character on Monday!
Who is your favourite character? Could you dress up as them?
We look forward to seeing all of your wonderful outfits on Monday morning!
Hope you are enjoying your weekend!
From the Year 4 Teachers
Wow!!! We had so much fun during our ignite morning!! The children built a lego village, they then made electrical circuits to make their houses light up! They even got to make a train move along the tracks! I have never seen so many learning zone 5’s! Best of all Mr Garside who came in to do the workshop said he was so amazed by the behaviour and maturity the children showed! We are proud of the children every single day but for someone else to say it just proves how wonderful they are!
We think the photos will speak for themselves!
We are really excited that tomorrow morning we have an electricity workshop coming to school. The children will build a city with Lego and connect it all to make a circuit with electricity. This should make the city light up and the vehicles move. Keep an eye on this page for photos tomorrow!
Class 4b have been learning lots about the Ancient Egyptians this term and we have created a pyramid reading corner! The children have really enjoyed building the pyramid but especially going inside to read!
This week’s Golden Tea party was another great celebration of the children’s successes this week. The proud attendees were:
Year 4 
Qasim
Keira
Aidan
Year 3 
Amara
Chloe B
Dravya
Unfortunately we seem to be having problems with photos on our website so there is no photo this week.
At the end of last term Year 4 all produced some fabulous poems, art work and performed to their peers. We were all so proud of everything they have achieved in Autumn term and particularly in the last two weeks of the term during Tree Week.
Here is a taster for you to see some of the children’s learning that took place!
Year 4 explored the book “Into the Forest” by Anthony Browne. The story is about a young boy who’s father has not come home and is not there in the morning for breakfast, his mother sends him off with a basket of goodies for his Grandma who is poorly, and he walks through the deep forest to get there. It is based around several fairytales, the main one being Little Red Riding Hood, and on his journey he comes across characters we would know from famous fairytales.
In Class 4b the children were challenged with the task of creating their own part of the story and the question given to them was ‘What fairytale would you like to come across if you were the little boy?’ They wrote out the extract and then in groups acted them out together. They were all very creative and engaged in this activity.
Year 4 have also been learning to play the African djembe drum in their music lessons. Over the term they learnt different sounds they could make and learnt about rhythms and pitch. The children put together a performance which they shared with Year 3. Here are some videos of what they performed.
