What a brilliant time Year 4 had on their trip to the Discovery Museum yesterday. We took part in a workshop all about sound in line with our new Science topic. We learned all about sound waves and how we actually hear sounds. We then put our scientist hats on and conducted some experiments to explore the pitch and volume of sound.
Last week Year 4 were super lucky to take part in an exciting Money Sense workshop hosted by NatWest. We looked at budgeting, and working in groups, we had to plan a party within our budget limitations. Thanks so much Mrs Whittle for organising this for us!
As part of anti bullying week, year 4 looked at peer pressure. We discussed what this was, and how it can be both positive, and negative. As a class we then looked at different scenarios to determine who was being pressured and how, and then discussed what our own actions could be in those scenarios.
Today, Year 4 completed their narrative poetry Gold Write. In line with our oracy focus in school, Miss Marley talked to the class around the physical aspects of oracy, such as gesturing, tone of voice, using appropriate pauses and speaking fluently.
We practiced in our partners, then read out our finished poems to the class thinking about everything we had learned. We loved showcasing our writing! Well done Year 4!
Today Year 4 completed an N-Rich activity during their maths lesson.
We looked at a number, and thought about the different ways we could represent that number. We thought about how we could show it with concrete resources, as well as how it would look on a place value chart and part whole model, before we looked at divisions, multiplications, additions and subtractions that we could use to reach this number too.
Some of us challenged ourselves to think about how we could reach this number by adding decimals!
This week, Mrs Smith and Mrs Sharrock spoke to us all about oracy. As a school we are really focusing on speaking and listening, and how we can improve our skills.
Throughout the week, Year 4 have been practising using our listening ears, and during class discussions we have been using our ‘knees to knees and eyes to eyes’ technique to help us be active listeners! We have been fantastic at this, Miss Marley and Mrs O’Doherty are so impressed 
Year 4 started their new PE unit of Hockey this week. We did our cool task and looked at basic skills of controlling the ball with our hockey stick. We then had a challenge at the end to shoot into the goal!
Year 4 have loved learning about teeth and oral health as part of their Digestion science topic. To mark the end of our topic all of the children received a toothbrush and toothpaste from Colgate, as part of Colgates Adventurers in the Molar System, to help encourage healthy oral hygiene habits!
Year 4 certainly enjoyed our English lesson this morning! We took inspiration from it being Bonfire Night and enjoyed drawing some fireworks on the yard.
We generated vocabulary that we could then use in a narrative poem, linked with our current English learning! Our poems were brilliant, well done!
