Blog Author: Miss Mancebo

Year 4 have been learning racket skills. They learned to hold the racket correctly and control the ball. They quickly realised that it requires a lot of strength and skill and that it’s not as easy as it looks. 

Year 4 enjoyed exploring the new Castle in the warm Spring sunshine.

This half term, Year 4 have been exploring different ways to open a story. We read a range of openings from well-known novels and compared the different ways each story starts. We then read the opening chapter to ‘The Hobbit’ and used it to write our own gripping start to a fantasy story in the…

We have had some very open and honest discussions about what autism is a what life is like living with autism. 

The children were so thoughtful and insightful and those with a diagnosis of autism kindly shared with us their experiences of the world and some of the challenges they encounter in…

Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their taster session of cricket this week with a visiting cricket coach. This was a good introduction to cricket in preparation for their P.E. lessons next term. 

Year 4’s class saint is St Joseph which is celebrated on March 19th each year but Pope Francis proclaimed that we celebrate a Year of St Joseph. Today we learned about Saint Joseph and about why the Pope admires him. We also researched the different ways that the feast of  St Joseph is celebrated…

While Year 4 were learning about carpentry, they compared the methods and tools Saint Joseph might have used with those used by carpenters today.  

Here are our completed Stars of Bethlehem.

St Joseph was a carpenter so today Year 4 were working with wood to make a Star of Bethlehem. They learned that carpentry requires the use of different skills, an understanding of safety and a lot of concentration. They also discovered that having an extra pair of helping hands is very useful. 
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Year 4 have been learning different types of stitches. They first created a design in their sketch books, thinking about the use of different colours which complement one another. We have learned that stitching requires a lot of patience! 

Our spellings this week are the soft /c/ spelt ‘ci’ and one of our spellings is ‘cinnamon’ so we decided to make some cinnamon toast with one of our spellings. We agreed it’s good to try new things and although some of us were reluctant at first to try cinnamon, we discovered that we quite like…

Year 4 have learning about the human digestive system. They have learned to identify and name all the parts and can explain the process of digestion using scientific vocabulary. Finally, they enjoyed making a working model of the digestive system.