Year 4 News

This week, Grebes and Penguins visited the Science Museum to help our understanding of the states of matter, different scientists and how our bodies work. Next week is Kiwis turn!

In Year 4, we have finished reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. The children then created their own portal stories, here is are some samples of their work.

This week the children have been learning about liquids, solids and gases. They conducted an experiment using ice cubes, testing how quickly they melt when placed in liquids of different…

This week, Year 4 have been producing non-chronological reports based on the book Weslandia. At the end of the week we watched The Wild Robot, as we have been studying…

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…

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 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…

This week, in Science, the children were investigating & explaining the use of materials as electrical conductors or insulators.

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…

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.  

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…