Year 4

Year 4 enjoyed handling Anglo-Saxon artefacts, making observations to enrich their learning. 
 

Exploring the Hill Fort Castle.

Yum yum! Ice cream and fun in the sun. We loved meeting all the animals and especially the ferret race! 

We had lots of fun climbing, sliding and running. 

Year 4 are really enjoying developing the skills needed for cricket. They particularly enjoyed using their news skills to gain points in the game. 
 

Year 4 are really enjoying learning how to play squash. Alongside developing racket and ball skills, they are learning the rules of the game and keeping fit and active. 
 

Year 4 are using Logo to learn how to use a text based coding language to control an onscreen turtle to create mathematical patterns. Today they have been learning the common instructions using the Logo programming language to create shapes. 
 

Year 4 have completed a course in Coding during their computing lessons. They have been learning new technical vocabulary associated with coding and learning how to put computational thinking into practice. 
 

Year 4 spent the afternoon outside enjoying developing a relationship with nature. Time was spent relaxing, connecting with others and the world around us, contemplating how we can feel close to nature, how feeling close to nature can help us feel happy, calm and relaxed. We carried out some…

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…