Year 4 spent their Forest School session this week continuing their work on states of matter as part of their science topic. Mr B carried out a range of experiments with us, looking at what factors could affect ice melting, the difference in temperatures, and how quickly it would take water to boil. We worked scientifically to make predictions and observations, and then record our findings.
Year 4 loved this weeks oracy challenge around pronunciation. We looked at the importance of pronouncing our words correctly, and really thought about how we use our mouths when speaking. We worked in groups looking at our class poem and then, using our physical oracy skills we performed it to the class.
Year 4 have started to look at dividing two digit numbers and dividing with remainders in our current maths unit. We have been looking at different methods to help us with this, with some of us finding the concrete resources the best way to help us visualise this.
Year 4 continued with their science topic yesterday, and this week we looked at the different particles of solids, liquids and gases. To help us visualise this, we worked in groups to position ourselves correctly to represent each of the states.
In RE, Year 4 looked at the Last Supper. We used a Conscience Alley strategy, where one member of the class was picked to play the role of Judas, with one line of the class suggesting why he should betray Jesus, and one line of the class suggesting why Jesus should not. Year 4 came up with some very compelling arguments and gave our class Judas a lot to think about!
Year 4 had a brilliant time participating in the athletics tournament at Temple Park today! We competed in a range of athletics events, including the relay, javelin and long jump. Well done on your fab sportsmanship Year 4!
Year 4 have been looking at notation this week in music. We listened to an audio clip on a thunderstorm as our stimulus, identifying different sounds and where he volume and pitch changed. We then created our own symbols to represent the sounds. After, we moved on to produce a dot notation for a familiar song, Twinkle Twinkle.
Year 4 had a great afternoon being landscape artists! We firstly looked at some pieces of landscape artwork and discussed colour, texture, line and what we liked about them. We then practiced some techniques to create ‘atmospheric perspective’ to create a foreground, middle ground and background! 
