Year 4 - Mr Atkinson

In Y4 we are studying all the imaginary lines drawn around the Earth and how they are used to help people find there way around.

We have started using a new PSHE scheme of work called Jigsaw, and our class piece of the jigsaw is called Jaz. The cat is used to help the children pause for thought!

The children in Year Four really enjoy their maths lessons and learning how to answer complicated questions.

Year Four learnt about different Roman Gods and Goddesses that were worshipped in Britain during the time the Romans were here.

The children played a game of ‘Top Trumps’ about Roman Gods so that they could learn as many facts as possible. They then made a Roman Gods Book to show some of these characters. Finally, the children took a set of the cards home with them to play again, as part of their Romans in Britain goody bags. The children thoroughly enjoyed the whole day.

Year Four are loving their music lessons with Mr Atkinson. They are doing a unit of work based around the classic Abba song ‘Mamma Mia’, with added xylophones. The 70’s disco classic is a big hit all over again in our class!

Year Four had their final session of basketball this week, and they had to work hard as part of their end of unit assessment. The children love the new PE coaches and being able to develop their ball skills in the playground.

The children in Year Four are really excited about their ‘Romans in Britain’ day this Friday. The children have the opportunity to prepare some shields and armour in class before the big day, and some children are even making helmets to wear on the big day. It promises to be a fact-filled fun day for the children.

In Year 4 we have been learning about the Romans in Britain. We have learnt about how Romans invaded Britain, about Boudica and her rebellion and all about what the Romans did for us. We are also making shields and armbands ready for our Roman Day on the last day of term.

Year 4 have been doing autumn prints in their art work. We used polystyrene tiles and carved our designs out using lollipop sticks so as not to break the materials. We then chose our own colours and applied these to rollers before making our prints. We made copies for displays and a print in our books too.  The tiles we carved into also looked good when we dried them so we put some of these on display too.

In Year Four, we have been continuing our leaf themed artwork. This week we made leaves out of paper then used scoring and folding techniques to make the leaves have different shades of colour.

Y4 have settled in really well to their new classroom and already hard at work on their new science topic, learning about the digestive system and teeth. They have really enjoyed finding out all the exciting things that happen in our bodies as we eat food. Maybe you could ask them how long it takes food to go from your mouth to your stomach? It may surprise you.

Y4 are also enjoying their space themed reading area and the books inside it. They really are finding out that reading takes you out of this world.

They are also enjoying our new approach to whole class reading, with plenty of exciting activities based around exciting texts.

We had lots of fun on our Roman Day! 

On art day, Y4 made colourful pictures and patterns using wool and sticky-back plastic.

We have LOVED our recent topic on bread! Today, we finally got to make our own bread, with added ingrediants of our own choice! We had sweet bread, savoury bread, some bread filled with a right concoction! Look how proud of our baking skills we are!

Recently, Year 4 were lucky enough to have a whole day of Science, linked to our topic about sound. 
Sam came to spend the day with us, and taught us SO much about sound! We learnt about sound waves and how they travel through different things, including a big wooden box! We learnt about how the size of something that makes a noise affects the sound it makes, as well as how to hold or hand a pipe or piece of wood to hear it resonate. 

In the afternoon, we had the opportunity to make our own instruments and could choose what sort of instrument to make! 
It was SO much fun and we learnt SO much! 

Mr Atkinson runs a lunchtime social homework club for children who want to improve their times tables knowledge, spelling ability or who just want a chat. 

We're learning about recounts at the moment. This is story map of our recount text, which is written as a letter. You can read it here. 

We’ve been working on categorising different words at the start of our English lesson today.

As part of our Christmas RE topic, we have made Christingles, learning about the history of them and what each part represents. We took them home to enjoy. 

We have been studying the different states of matter this term. We investigated the melting point of chocolate to see when it changed state from a solid into a liquid. 

Y4 children are enjoying the new novel they are studying in shared reading on Thursdays and Friday. It's called "Song of the Dolphin Boy," by Elizabeth Laird. 

The children are enjoying their Monday PE lessons learning about team games in the hall. 

Year 4 are studying states of matter in science and ice balloons contain gas, have a solid and can melt into a liquid. The children wrote up about what they found out in their science books.

In Science this week, we studied different types of teeth then tried to reconstruct a jaw in science.

Year 4 are settling in well to the new routines and working hard! Here are some of our children in our second teaching space - The Haven!

Y4 have been finding out about prayer in RE and have made prayer cubes to help create prayers.

Y4 took part in an amazing science day and made sounds using metal bars, straws, thunder drums and other items. We also watched air travelling using a fog machine and an 'air cannon'.  We had lots of fun and the children asked lots of good scientific questions. 

In science we have been learning about how to change the pitch of sounds and we made simple panpipes to hear sounds at different pitches. The children enjoyed making these instruments but unfortunately they did not sound as tuneful as the real things! 

Children draw on paper underneath their tables to see how difficult it must have been to paint the Sistine Chapel lying on your back. It wasn't easy! 

Children sort out different fractions into smaller groups.

Year 4 acted as sound waves in Science! 

Year 4 have been researching pangolins to write a new information text. The children find these creatures fascinating and are enjoying doing the research for their project. 

In Y4 we loved Wellbeing Wednesday! We connected with Reception class in the morning. We also did a 5 kilometre race for life and made signs to show we had entered the race. Y4 had a very calm wellbeing day and learnt a lot about how to keep calm and well in our lives. 

In Y4 we have been making still life clay models of peppers out of clay.

We are loving our study of What We’ll Build by Oliver Jeffers! We’re building towers!

Our Kites topic was such fun! Here are just a few of the finished products!

Y4 have been conducting a science experiment about changing states  of water. 

In Y4 we’ve been learning about, and making, Christingles!

We’ve been working on our Let’s Go Fly a Kite topic for the last few weeks!

We had such a great day for our Africa day! We learnt loads and had such good fun!