Year 4

Year 4 have been investigating symmetry in maths this week.  They have made their own symmetrical patterns to illustrate their understanding with super results.

Year 4 have been learning about family members in French and they perfected their use of “j’ai” to say who they have in their family, remembering to use the correct “mon / ma / mes” for each person or people. Year 4 challenged themselves by learning the negative version “je n’ai pas de…” too! To…

Year 4 have been investigating perimeter and area. They created shapes and pictures using a geo board and calculated the area or perimeter of their shapes. The children demonstrated super learning and some wonderful creativity.

Our busy scientists have been making a mucky model of the digestive system today. Can you guess what each bit represents?

In maths the children have been using arrays to create the 11 and 12 times tables. They also used this knowledge to investigate the factors of different numbers, creating arrays to show the factor pairs of numbers such as 24 and 16.

Year 4 scientists are learning about our senses this half term and this week are challenging their taste buds to identify sweet, sour, bitter or salty foods. Yum or yuk?

This week Year 4 journeyed further into Surrealism by way of Monoprinting. Their three chapter story was portrayed with a simple line drawing on a piece of paper, this paper was then carefully placed onto a layer of ink. The lines were redrawn on the paper which picks up ink onto the underside of the…

This week the children have been looking at how the oceans are being changed as a result of the things we do. The children learned about overfishing and climate change but looked particularly at plastic and its impact on animals living in the sea. They were surprised to learn that we could end up eating…

Leo P brought in some beautiful tropical shells and presented them to the class as part of our ocean research. He was very well informed and the children were fascinated.  

As part of their topic of Water Year 4 have been looking at settlements and investigating why humans have settled by coasts and rivers.  As a year group they created their own river including waterfalls, tributaries, meanders, flood plains and an estuary.  Then they created their own settlement thinking carefully about where it would be…