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!
Year 4 have had an AMAZING afternoon with John from Durham Wildlife Trust. This was our second session with John, and this time we put our plans from our last session into practice to build our own school rain garden!
This linked to our learning around the water cycle in our geography topic, and we have loved exploring this practically. Our rain garden is going to help reduce surface rain water on our yard, great work Year 4!
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.
We loved using the fire to observe changing states and observe the process of evaporation and condensing first hand…but I think our favourite part was using the fire to toast some marshmallows to end our afternoon!
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.
