Year 4 Science Week
On Thursday, we celebrated National Science Day by investigating if we were like sharks! A shark’s age can be determined by their length; we compared our height to our age…
Year 4 News
Year 4 Geography: where our food comes from
This term, in Geography, we are researching and learning about where our food comes from. This week we identified key bits of information about how certain foods impact the environment.…
Year 5 Writing: The Listeners – written by Walter De La Mare
Year 5 have started to analyse the fabulous and eerie poem The Listeners – written in 1912 by Walter De La Mare. The children explored the language of the text…
Year 4 Science: Electricity
This week, in Science, the children were investigating & explaining the use of materials as electrical conductors or insulators.
Year 4 Writing Techniques
This week, the children have been writing using persuasive techniques (rhetorical questions, commands, hyperbole and emotive language) and using the present perfect tense. Their writing has been based on the…
Year 4 look at the Amazon Rainforest
This week, Y4 children have been describing & giving examples of a biome. They used atlases to find the location & identify features of the Amazon rainforest.
Year 4: An interview with Ernest Shackleton
This week in Year 4, we took part in a reenactment of an interview with Ernest Shackleton, exploring his incredible adventure to Antarctica. We are really enjoying learning about his…
Year 4 caring for their teeth
This week the children have been investigating how to care for their teeth. They created a plan and an enquiry by considering which variables should be changed, measured and controlled. ‘Yes,’…
Year 4 reading “Until I met Dudley”
This week we have been asking ‘Dudley’ how a kettle really works! We have used adverbials, conjunctions and the possessive apostrophe to help us. Written by Roger McGough and illustrated…
Minster Junior Newsround November 2025
Welcome to Minster Junior Newsround and our November edition. In this bulletin, our years 4, 5, and 6 reporters give us the lowdown on some fantastic trips, amazing sports…
Year 4 have been making masks!
To celebrate Many Cultures, One Family the children created masks that represented their own culture. They researched, planned and then created their masks.
Year 4 visit the V&A
To help the children discover more about our History theme of ‘How Children’s Lives Have Changed’, we visited the Young V&A (Victoria and Albert) museum in Bethnal Green. Thank you…