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!
It also made us think about what jobs use Science, and just how many amazing jobs using Science there really are!
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 
Year 4 loved art this afternoon, exploring water colour techniques. We looked at the properties of water colour and how to make it more translucent! Our work looks amazing 
In Geography this week, Year 4 looked at the tropics. We looked at locating the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn on the map, thinking about their position against the equator. We also thought about which countries they ran through, and what the climates of these countries looked like.
This week in PE, Year 4 focused on our rolls and rolling skills linked to gymnastic techniques. Miss Marley was so impressed with some of our forward rolls! We found keeping our legs straight and the bean bag between between our ankles tricky!
Year 4 loved taking part in National Fitness Day this week! We ran, jogged and walked laps around our yard, with lots of us managing to complete a whole mile! Well done Year 4!
