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Electric Explanations!
English This week, we have been continuing our work on explanation texts and how to construct them – focusing primarily on organising paragraphs and writing clear conclusions. The children were able to carefully select the information that they wanted to include in each paragraph and create subheadings that clearly indicated what each paragraph was Read More
Read newsArtefacts, explanations and electricity!
We have had another busy week in Year 4! R.E In R.E both classes explored some Islamic artefacts, looking closely to try and work out what the artefacts are used for and why they are important to Muslims. English In English, we have been learning all about explanation texts. This week we focused on Read More
Read newsWelcome to Year 4!
The children in Year 4 have had a fantastic first week and have really impressed their new teachers with their enthusiasm and positive attitudes. Here are some of our highlights from the week: Team building On Tuesday, both classes completed a series of fun team-building activities on the field. Children had to work together Read More
Read newsGoodbye Year 4!
A short blog today just to say a massive thank you to all the children in Year 4 for a fantastic year. It has been a pleasure looking after you all for the last year (or two!). All the Year 4 staff feel very lucky that we get to work with such amazing children Read More
Read newsThis Week in Year 4: Bananas, Music and Sports
English Year 4 had lots of fun writing thank you letters to the Cloud Tea Monkeys, not on paper, but on bananas! In our thank you letters, we had to practise using the present perfect tense (e.g. ‘the empress has tasted the tea’ or ‘we have paid the doctor’). It was amazing how neatly Read More
Read newsLet’s Animate!
Computing This week, the children have been hard at work creating their own stop motion projects. After spending some time reviewing their plans to make sure they had everything they needed, the children set up their webcams and were ready to begin. Each group was so focused on taking each individual picture, making sure Read More
Read newsTwo Sunny Trips to Burnsall!
Both Year 4 classes had fantastic trips to Burnsall this week, made even better (if a little sweatier!) by the glorious sunshine. All children completed a 2-mile walk along the River Wharfe to the Hebden Suspension Bridge, which made for a fun and wobbly river crossing! On the walk we made a number of Read More
Read newsFirst Week Back
We’ve had a busy start to our final half term in Year 4! English We have started to explore our new class text, Cloud Tea Monkeys, making predictions about what the story will be about and picking out descriptive language to help us make pastel pictures of the setting. 4L had an exciting lesson Read More
Read newsYear 4: Worm Hunters
Despite coming ever closer to the end of the year, the children of Year 4 have been hard at work and have definitely earned the upcoming break! Maths In maths, we have been finishing our work on decimals by exploring how to round decimals to the nearest whole number. After spending some time revisiting Read More
Read newsInvertebrate Investigators!
It’s been another great week in Year 4! Science In science this week we learnt about some of the different groups of invertebrates before going on an invertebrate hunt! We used the pooters to carefully collect creatures that we found so that we could study them more closely. We then released the animals back Read More
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