Welcome to Year 4
Teachers
Mrs Medall
Teaching assistant
Miss Kerr
Recorders: Tuesday
PE: Monday
Forest School: starts 23rd April
Wow! What an amazing term Year 4 have had. They have impressed me with all aspects of their learning and are building resilience. We have been working hard to follow our school rules and performed an assembly about, being respectful. Each member of the class had a verse from the poem, ‘The Respectful Rhino’ and all children spoke clearly and loudly. Well done!
Year 4 Art - Patterns
In Art, Year 4 have been learning about different patterns in nature for example, plants and flowers. Using clay, they created a tile using a variety of different colours, lies and shapes. Once dry, they used PVA glue to create a ‘glaze.’
Year 4 – Sound
This half term in science, Year 4 have been exploring sounds - what makes them and how they travel. Today, we experimented with different musical instruments from the string, percussion and wind families and investigated how each instrument changed its pitch. We discovered that the higher the pitch, the faster the frequency.
WB: 20.1.2025
This week, Year 4 had a wonderful opportunity to participate in a workshop about Earthquakes and Volcanoes. This supports their learning in geography. They particularly enjoyed acting out scenarios of what to do when an earthquake strikes!
This week, we conducted a science investigation to test the melting times of different types of chocolate e.g., dark, milk and white chocolate. Working in groups, we carefully placed the different types of chocolate into a tin and into a tray of boiled water. We used a stopwatch to time how long it took for the different types of chocolate to melt. We predicted that the white chocolate would melt the fastest because it has fewer cocoa beans and we were correct!
This week, Year 4 began their new DT topic, Seasonal Stockings. They used different stitching techniques to join two pieces of felt together. They really enjoyed the challenge and it was nice to see their perseverance in conquering a new skill.
This week, Year 4 started uni-hoc in P.E. They practised holding the stick correctly as well as controlling and passing the ball to their partner.
This week in maths, the children have been exploring multiplication. They have built arrays as well as constructed ‘factor bugs’ to find all the factors of a number.
This week in P.E, the children warmed-up with a game of ‘Tag.’ They were then put into two teams and were challenged with making ‘side passes’ to score a try!
In P.E, Year 4 are learning the basic skills of Tag Rugby. This week, they learnt how to throw a ball to one another using a side-pass.