Tectonic Plates

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This afternoon, we have been learning about the Earth's crust being made up of tectonic plates which fit together like a huge jigsaw puzzle. 

We have built our own tectonic plates using cream and biscuits.

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Year 4 Design and Technology

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Using Maps

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Children in Year 4 have been using their map skills to locate the world's volcanoes.  

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Year 4 - Learning about Asthma

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As part of our PSHR(S)E Curriculum, children in Year 4 have been learning about asthma - what it is and how to help someone who is having an asthma attack.  As part of the lesson, children made their own paper lungs to demonstrate what happens during an asthma attack and practised helping someone…

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World Book Day

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As part of World Book Day, we discussed that reading books can take us to different places!  As a class we used 'You Choose: Your Adventure' to write a collaborative story with our friends.

We had fairy princesses fighting aliens and then having lunch with Grandma; cowboys climbing Mount…

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Predictions, Predictions, Predictions

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Year 4 have been using key words and sentences from our new Literacy text to predict what the story might be about.  

 

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World Book Day - Year 2 and 4

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Isaac and Emily are sharing their favourite books with each other for World Book Day.

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World Book day - Year 4 and 2

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Year 2 have enjoyed sharing their favourite books with year 4.

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Reader of the Week

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Sound and Pitch

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Year 4 have had a very noisy afternoon creating straw pipes and a pipe flute. 

The children discovered that: the shorter straws produced a higher pitch note and the longer straws produced a lower pitched note.  

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Reader of the Week 13.2.23

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Congratulations to our very worthy winners of the Reader of the Week certificate.

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Coding - Variables

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This half term in Year 4, we've been looking at variables within our computing lessons. 

What is a variable? In programming, a variable is a value that can change, depending on conditions or on information passed to the program. 

We've been creating apps where when our character hits an…

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