Year 4 had a great morning at The Great North Museum today. We attended a workshop all around Ancient Egypt and mummification. We became historians for the morning, looking at the two mummified people that are kept in the museum, completing our own investigations by looking at different evidence including X-rays of the bodies! This allowed us to draw conclusions about their life and how they had been mummified.

Year 4 had a fantastic day for our whole school Aspirations Day. We got to meet lots of different people in different job roles and enjoyed asking them about what character traits they needed to succeed in their roles. We then got to spend our afternoon enjoying lots of different workshops, including a budgeting workshop with NatWest, and a session with a Sunderland women’s team player!

Y4 and Y5’s oracy challenge this week was to take part in a workshop led by Mrs Smith all about managing our time. Mrs Smith filled a container with rocks, gravel and water to represent all the different aspects of life we need to juggle in our lives, learning how to prioritise, plan and prepare.

The workshop helped the children to reflect on their daily lives and on how they will work towards their end-of-year oracy speeches in the coming weeks. Thank you, Mrs Smith!

Y4 and Y5’s oracy challenge this week was to take part in a workshop led by Mrs Smith all about managing our time. Mrs Smith filled a container with rocks, gravel and water to represent all the different aspects of life we need to juggle in our lives, learning how to prioritise, plan and prepare. The workshop helped the children to reflect on their daily lives and on how they will work towards their end-of-year oracy speeches in the coming weeks. Thank you, Mrs Smith!

Year 4 have been focusing on stories in English, and have started to plan and draft our story from another culture linked to our topic of Ancient Civilisations. Before we began our plan, we looked at how we could structure our story and the features we needed to include.

Year 4 had a fantastic afternoon, on Friday, exploring our RE topic of Sikhism! We delved further into their beliefs and looked at The 5Ks and what these mean. We loved having The 5K objects to look at and even tried some of these on

Year 4 had a great afternoon consolidating all of their learning around their science topic. Paul, the electrician, came back in to work with us to help use our knowledge of circuits to connect our batteries and motors to make our cars go! We even used elastic bands to create resistance with our own gear boxes!

Year 4 enjoyed their art this afternoon and continued looking at Islamic artwork! We created star motifs, as an important symbol in Islam and how this is included in a lot of artwork 

Year 4 took part in a fantastic workshop at the Discovery Museum today linked to their science topic, Electrical Circuits and Conductors. We started by looking at Joseph Swan, and his journey to creating the lightbulb. We then conducted an experiment to test different materials to see if they were conductors or insulators. We finished our session by using our circuits knowledge to make our own torches!