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!
Year 4 took their maths outside last week, and looked at adding and taking away from a four digit number using their place value knowledge. We looked at how we could recognise what columns needed to change, and what to do when we needed to exchange columns.
As part of International Democracy Day, Year 4 have been looking at what a government is, how democracy works and what an election is. We elected party leaders who told us what they stood for, and then we cast our vote, electing our class Prime Minister for the day.
Our gorgeous Beau won the election by a landslide representing the Green Party!
Year 4 began their first PE unit today, where we focused on gymnastics. We looked at our sticky knowledge around balances, rolling, jumps and travelling, to see what we could remember from our previous learning. We are super excited to look at each of the elements and perfect our techniques ready to put together a gymnastics routine!
Yesterday in Year 4 we started our new art topic Contrast and Compliment, which we were very excited about! We began with our cool task, looking at how what we knew about creating shade and using colour techniques for effect.
For our first PE session last week, Year 4 looked at fitness. We focused on our new ‘mile a day’ yard markings, and some of us challenged ourselves to run the whole mile! We then finished our session looking at the Paralympics, and watched some of the athletes competing.
Year 4 have made a flying start to their Place Value unit in Maths this last week. We have loved using the practical resources to help secure our knowledge of tens, hundreds and thousands and exploring how we can represent different numbers.
