Year 4 Ocean Blog
Black History Month
This Year in Ocean and Sky class we have celebrated Yinka Shonibare. He is a British artist living in the United Kingdom. His work explores cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. A hallmark of his art is...
Wroxeter Trip
What an amazing day. We went to Wroxeter, the largest Roman town of it's time in Shropshire. Our guide Lucy was fantastic and answered all our questions fully. To think we were standing in the Roman baths from around 2000 years ago was a phenomenal thought.
International Day of Peace
Thank you to all the children who completed their homework for International Day of Peace. We had some wonderful contributions and explanations of what children believe peace is and how it can be achieved across the world. Here are a few examples: Many...
Loudmouth Theatre Company
This afternoon we had a visit in Year 4 from Loudmouth. They taught us about bullying and the things we need to do to keep stand up to bullies and keeping us safe. We also looked in more detail at cyberbullying and how we could help 'Mo' with his situation. The...
History and Geography combined
This afternoon we thoroughly enjoyed the beginning of our Theme topic - The Romans. We looked at our school timeline before heading back to the classroom to use Atlases. We found Europe, Italy and finally Rome. We then learnt about key events in the emergence of the...
We are going paperless!
In order to reduce the amount of paper usage in school, we are moving towards a completely paperless system for communicating with parents/carers. Information regarding clubs, trips, events etc will now be sent exclusively via ParentMail with no letters sent home with...
What a delivery!!!
The Chest In the school holidays an archaeologist delivered a wooden chest from Pompeii with relics in from Roman times. We were intrigued to see what was inside and to learn more about its’ origins. We retrieved our knowledge about nouns and could easily identify the...
Maths
This week we have been learning our 3 and 6 times tables. Today we have used arrays to help us solve some multiplication sentences. Some of us in the class have been solving sentences beyond 12x.
Forest Team Building Morning
What an amazing morning team building in the forest. We even had a small fire and made smores, yummy. A massive thank you to Mrs Harrison for organising the morning and Mrs Kayla-Barratt.
Year 4 DT
We have been practising our sewing skills in Year 4, as well as attaching fastenings. We originally designed book jackets, but we ended up making wallets with different fastenings and designs. We used backstitch to join the edges, attached a button, a press stud or...
Olympic Art in Ocean Class
As part of Sports Week, each year group has focused on a different continent. In Year 4, Asia was the continent we studied and, in particular, China. On Wednesday afternoon, we studied the traditional art of Chinese paper cutting. This art dates back to when paper...
Bishop’s Wood – Y4 Anglo-Saxon Day
Year 4 enjoyed a visit to Bishop's Wood Activity Centre in Stourport last week. It was a lovely sunny day and we had a great time getting into character as Anglo-Saxons travelling to Britain and settling. The day was jam-packed with fun activities including...
Year 4 multi-skills afternoon
Today, 30 Year 4 pupils went to Perryfields Academy to take part in a multi-skills sports afternoon. We had the opportunity to participate in five different activities: bowling, archery, obstacle course, quoits and 'grab the cone'. We also had a game of dodgeball...
Batik Art Y4
As one of our enrichment activities in Year 4, we have been learning about the technique of Batik to produce patterns on fabric. Batik is an art and craft that is popular around the world. It originated from Indonesia and uses wax-resist dyes applied to cloth. When...
Frank Chapman Photos
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Frank Chapman Day 2
Frank Chapman Day 1
We've had a wonderful start to our residential at Frank Chapman. The sun has been shining all day! This afternoon, we've been having a go at archery, obstance courses (with blindfolds) and high ropes. In the evening, we've ventured through the woods to the magic tree.
Music
In Ocean class, our music lessons this term are linked to our Anglo-Saxon topic. We are following the story of Beowulf and learning songs, focusing on the major and minor key and how this can portray the emotion in the music. We will also be practising some rhythmic...
Enrichment Day in Ocean Class
On Friday, we had an enrichment day in school. In Year 4, we focused on structures - in particular, bridges. We looked at different types of bridges from around the world and discussed ways to make a bridge stronger. We experimented with simple beam and arch bridges...
DT Energy Bars
In Year 4, we designed and made energy bars for a mountaineer. We based our energy bars on a basic flapjack recipe and added extra ingredients such as raisins, chocolate chips or fruit. Once they were cooked, we enjoyed tasting and evaluating our finished products!
Science Week
The theme for this year's British Science Week was 'Time'. In Year 4, we talked about how time is measured now and how it was measured in the past. We looked at images and a video about sundials, which were first used in Ancient Egypt and were adopted by the Romans in...