Year 4 loved their first swimming session today! We had so much fun in the pool practicing front crawl ♀️! Miss Marley can’t wait to see our confidence and swimming ability grow over this term 
Year 2 began their music learning for the half term with a COOL task all about composing alongside a stimulus. They were given a piece of art showcasing a stormy sea and were asked to compose a piece of music to it in small groups. We are loving all of the links to our new topic of Coastlines!
Year 4 have spent their afternoon exploring coding as part of their computing unit. Using Turtle Academy, we followed the basic commands to make our turtle move in different directions. We then followed through the steps to turn, combine commands and create shortcuts. We LOVED this, and can’t wait for our next computing lesson already!
Following on from our Forest School session, Year 4 have been exploring states of matter further. We looked at lots of different materials to determine whether they were a solid, liquid or gas. However, some were harder to categorise than others…shaving foam and toothpaste caused quite a class debate!
Year 4 had a fab Forest School session yesterday! The cold weather worked in our favour for our afternoon exploring solids, liquids and gases for our new science topic, ‘States of Matter’. On our hunt for different materials we loved finding ice, thinking about it had changed state from a liquid to a solid, and some of us enjoyed trying to reverse the freezing process to change it back to a liquid. Great work Year 4! 
Year 4 took part in a workshop ran by Nexus this morning. We learned all about the exciting new metro trains, and more importantly, how to stay safe on the metro and near the tracks. We talked about where is the safest place to stand on the metro platform, and what to do if we need help. 
Year 4 have been thinking about composition in music. We looked at different instruments in our COOL task, thinking about the way we could use them to make different sounds. We worked in groups to look at how we could create our own piece of music. Year 4 loved this and can’t wait to explore composition this half term. 
Year 4 have loved kickstarting their new art topic, ‘Vista’. After researching some landscape artwork we liked, we created our own picture frames to see what landscapes we could capture in them. We experimented with different views and discussed which ones we liked best and why!
In English, Year 4 have started to look at persuasive writing. Today, we worked in partners, and picked a topic to debate. Using our eyes to eyes and knees to knees technique, we discussed the reasons for and against our argument, and then thought about the language we could use to persuade our audience. We then recorded our arguments on Seesaw, thinking about our physical oracy skills when doing this, ensuring we were speaking with clarity.
What a fabulously festive afternoon we all had watching the pantomime yesterday! Year 4 LOVED Mother Goose, and we all had such a gorgeous time!
