As part of our worship challenge this week, Year 4 have been thinking about justice and fairness.
We looked at various different scenarios, debating these with our partners thinking about fairness and if justice had been served. Then, using our oracy skills, we shared our thoughts in a whole class debate, thinking about how we could put our points across to others.
In RE last week, Year 4 looked at temptation. We came into the class to find bowls of chocolate on all of our tables, to see if, like Adam and Eve, we would give in to temptation! We then roll played Adam, Eve, the snake and God, thinking about how the snake could be convincing, and what God would’ve wanted.
One of our Ozzie 80 categories is to learn sign language…and what better way to tick this off than during International Day of Sign Language! Year 4 linked this to our current music topic, and used one of the songs in our genre to perform in sign language. We learned how to sign ‘Wonderwall’ and performed this as a class.
Year 4 have been practising their jumps and balances in PE this week. We have been challenging each other to see how long we could hold our balances for.
This week in guided maths, Year 4’s red group tried out our new class game linked to our times table. We worked together to complete the multiplication grid, then challenged each other with the multiplication question cards.
Year 4 visited Hebburn Comprehensive School this week to take part in a modern languages workshop. We worked with some of the school’s language ambassadors, who helped us with a French lesson! We used our listening skills to identify words and phrases, and some of us had a go ourselves! Thanks so much to Hebburn Comprehensive for inviting us.
In History, Year 4 have been looking at the impact of the Anglo Saxon invasions. We looked at the creation of the seven kingdoms, and then we looked at how many places still exist today with Anglo Saxon suffixes! We enjoyed using our geographical skills to locate these places on a map.
As part of our current Science topic, Year 4 visited the Life Centre to take part in their Disgusting Digestion workshop, and what an amazing time we had! We became real scientists for the day, conducting our own experiments to investigate what happens in our bodies when we eat our food, right down to the methane gas we produce at the end!
Year 4 took their RE learning outside this week. We visited the nature garden to look at nature’s ‘wow’ moments, thinking about what Christians might believe about why God created these, and what we can learn from this. We picked our favourite nature moments to photograph, and made voice recordings using our oracy skills to describe why we thought God would have created these.
Year 4 enjoyed playing a ‘nrich’ game today, linked to their learning on place value. We have been rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000! We used 3 dice to create a 3 digit number, we then rounded this up or down 
