This week in swimming, Year 4 have moved onto breast stroke. This was one of the trickiest strokes but we all worked super hard to master the technique.
Year 4 absolutely loved this weeks oracy challenge around posture! We were challenged to see if we balance a book on our head, which we found was much easier when we had the correct posture!
Building on all we learned in our online music session with Mrs Smith last week, Year 4 have continued with our learning around composition this week. We used our notation grids again to put together our own composition, but instead of clapping out the notes, this time we used instruments and worked in groups to put our compositions together.
As part of a Safer Internet Day, Year 4 have been looking at the importance of staying safe online. We looked at how we could identify risks on the internet, including cyber bullying, misinformation and unsafe sharing.
This week in swimming, Year 4 focused on back crawl. We absolutely loved mastering this stroke in the pool, great work Year 4.
Year 4 have loved ‘Time to Talk’ day! We have had a day of learning based all around our topic of Vista and have been artists for the day ️ . We linked all of our art learning together to create our final piece of artwork…of a landscape. ️
We spent some of the morning seeing how we could edit and change the colours in a picture to change the mood and atmosphere, before then designing our own picture – thinking about the mood we wanted to create, as artists, using warm and cool colours We then created an Art Gallery for our parents/carers to evaluate our work. Well done Year 4!
To coincide with our learning in our geography topic, Misty Mountain, Winding River, Year 4 have been challenged with writing a diary entry about a journey on a river in English. To give us some inspiration, we decided to embark on our own river journey with a trip on the ferry! We talked about what we could see, hear and smell to help inspire our writing, as well as thinking about our knowledge around our geography topic, spotting the river features we recognised.
We were super lucky when our lovely Olivia spotted a seal popping out of the water, a definite highlight of our trip!
Year 4 had an extra special music lesson today…we had Mrs Smith all the way from Spain teaching us! As part of our learning around composition, we looked at how we could follow rhythms using a range of different notes. We then used these notes to compose our bars of music.
As part of their RE unit, Year 4 thought about what a memory box for a Christian remembering the life of Jesus would look like. We thought about what we would put inside and why, and then we discussed if Christians would need a memory box to remember Jesus, or what else they could do to remember him. 
Year 4 had a fab morning for this half terms trip to the library. The lovely librarian Catherine had sourced so many books on our geography topic on rivers and mountains for us to explore and take back to school. As always, we loved our story, and then spent some time back at school using our new books to read for pleasure!
