Year 4 were super lucky today and had a visitor in class this morning. Paul is an electrician, and came in to help us with our new Science topic, Electrical Circuits and Conductors. We constructed a simple series circuit using a range of components. We then used our knowledge of circuits to predict if different circuits would work or not, and then worked out how to fix the ones that didn’t work.

As part of our new topic Ancient Civilisations, Year 4 have visited The Great North Museum. We completed a workshop on mummification, and even got to study some real mummified Egyptians that the museum have, looking at X-rays to discover what objects were buried with them, and what their facial structure was.

Year 4 explored the Egyptian gallery, completing some activities to further our understanding. We also had some time to explore the museum and check out the other exhibitions too…another great trip!

Year 4 took part in a hockey festival today, and spent the morning playing against lots of other schools in the area. Year 4 were perfect ambassadors for St Oswald’s, and won lots of their matches! 

This week in science we have conducted an experiment to see how water absorbed through stems of celery. We found out that he water travels up the site, in tubes called xylem.

Today Year 4 were super lucky to have a whole day computing workshop. We had Mr Roberts from The Word come to spend the day with us to help us create our very own podcasts! We learned how to record, add sounds, change the volume and edit our recordings before we put them all together. We have loved our computing filled day!

Year 4 loved their first PE session of the summer term. We started our Athletics topic last week, thinking about what sticky knowledge we had from previous years. We looked at javelin, shot put, hurdles and jumping. Great work Year 4!

What a fantastic trip Year 4 have had to The Discovery Museum! To kick start our new Science topic, we took part in a workshop all about electricity. We looked at the founder of the light bulb, thought about conductors and insulators, completed our own circuits and made our very own torches!

We even had enough time after to explore the Science Maze in the museum too, which not only had an electricity area, but lots of other areas linked to our previous Science learning too!

Year Four had the most amazing rich experience yesterday at Low Barns farm linked to our topic of Misty Mountain Winding Rivers!

We had the most fantastically muddy time taking a walk down to the river where the south of the river met the north of the Tyne. We collected information about this, before heading back up to the farm.

We then were so lucky to see lambs being born and experience this first hand…wow! What a fab day ☺️⭐