Year 4

Year 3 and 4 enjoyed a fitness session with KidzFit today. We learned lots about the importance of a healthy lifestyle through exercise and diet. We had a go at a range of exercises to raise our heartbeats and test our stamina, agility and resilience. We also learned about the positive effects of…

Year 4 are enjoying their cricket coaching this half term. They are developing essential skills such as catching and throwing a ball. They are learning new skills such as how to hold a cricket bat correctly and effective fielding techniques. During each session, they have the opportunity to put…

What a wonderful day we had celebrating King Charles’ Coronation! We enjoyed an ice cream, a Coronation Buffet lunch outside with the whole school and had lots of fun on the bouncy castle. We discussed the meaning of ‘British Values’ and the qualities of ‘mutual respect and tolerance’ and what it…

Today Year 4 have been using their knowledge notes to build an electrical circuit. Throughout the task, they worked collaboratively and used lots of scientific vocabulary to ensure they assembled their circuits correctly. 

Year 4 have been experimenting with pace. They are trying to find what their endurance pace is so that they can comfortably run continuously over the distance of a mile.

Year 4 had a fabulous morning working with Lucy Burnett, a local poet. They read a range of poems written by different poets aloud and were able to respond about how each one made them feel. Lucy then shared lots of different ways to write poetry and showed us how much fun it is to be creative…

After lots of preparation, Year 4 took part in the Let’s Dance Competition alongside children from local schools. They performed a group dance, two solos and one duet in front of an audience and judges. They were fantastic! Well done to our dancers who were awarded ‘most creative dancer’ and ‘most…

Year 4 celebrated Saint Joseph’s day today as he is our class Saint. 

We learned about how important Saint Joseph is to many Christian’s from all around the world and about the different ways different countries celebrate on St Joseph’s Day. We even tried a traditional St Joseph’s Day…

Year 4 were very pleased to meet Team GB athlete Chris Bennett this afternoon. He told us some very interesting stories about his experiences as an athlete. 

Miss Mancebo was very impressed with the Year 4 athletic prowess demonstrated in the sponsored athletics circuits. 
 

As part of Science Week, Year 4 have been learning about the digestive system. Today they were working scientifically. We decided what our variables were then created a model of the human digestive system. We hypothesised that the faeces would be affected by the diet. 

In P.E. Year 4 are learning to interpret and respond to different pieces of music by experimenting with different body movements then putting these together to create a sequence. 

Year 4 learned about the runic alphabet and had to decipher the instructions written in runes to find out how to make ink in the same way as the Anglo-Saxons. They also learned how parchment was made then made their own quill which they used to write their own message using the runic alphabet. 
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