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Year 4 Teachers (ID 1210)

Space Odyssey

We have started the second half of the spring term with lots of hands on and interactive learning!
 
To kick off our Geography unit on sustainability, Space Odyssey came in to visit us with  the mobile planetarium with 360°  3D digital experience with the learning objectives around caring for our planet and sustainability. 
 
In Science, we have a new unit on teeth and the digestive system. We have been learning about the different type of teeth humans and animals have and how these are different depending on the diet of the animal. We have started an experiment on what happens to teeth (or eggs) when left in sugary drinks for a period of time. The children got to see how well they brush their own teeth by using the dental tablets to highlight the spots they may be missing when brushing so they can be more careful in the future. 
 
For our Art unit we are exploring Monet and his style of painting. We have been learning about mixing our own colours from only using the 3 primary colours (red, yellow and blue) and changing the tone of colours. 
 
In maths, the children have been flying through the subtraction pathway and are really impressing us with their effort and resilience when moving onto the symbolic method. 

Posted 29th Feb, 2024

Geometric Patterns

In Numeracy, we have been exploring fractions and decimals. These can be tricky to understand but the children have shown great resilience and worked really hard. We are so pleased with their progress.
In Computing, the children have been creating shapes and learning about repeated loops to continue to make geometric patterns. 
For Design and Technology, we have continued with our design brief on making a jewellery box for our Anglo-Saxon brooches. The children created nets, scored the card to make clean folds, decorated the boxes and strengthened them to safely hold the brooches. 
Great work Year 4!
Have a great half term and we'll see you back here soon!!

 Posted 8th Feb, 2024

Multiplication and Division Pathways

We have been very busy in year 4 so far this term! The children have been working very hard and are learning to be more resilient. In Numeracy we have been flying through the multiplication and division pathways. The children have learnt about number factors to make a product and exploring how many ways they can multiply numbers to make a given product. 

 In Design and Technology we are creating Jewlery boxes to hold out Anglo-Saxon styled broaches. We have been exploring nets and shell structures , both physically and digitally using Polydrons and an CAD design tool called TinkerCAD. 

 In PE we have been thinking about shape and balances in gymnastics. The children practiced their tucks, pikes and straddles.

 In Science we have been learning about sound and this week pitch, the children made their own simple instruments and explored how the different sized rubber bands sound when plucked. 

 keep up the good work Year 4!

 Posted 25th Jan

Anglo-Saxon Britain

So far this Spring term Year 4 have been learning about the Anglo Saxons. We started the term off by learning how the Romans retreated and left Britain and then the Anglo-Saxon tribes came in and took over. We looked at primary and secondary sources of information and explored artefacts. The children then went on to design their own Anglo-Saxon styled brooches from clay and in Design and Technology we will be designing and making jewellery boxes to contain our brooches.

In science we have started to learn about sound and how we hear. In computing we are looking at programming and creating shapes with reptation both online with the Turtle academy and with programmable devices ProBots.

 Posted 19th Jan, 2024

Investigating living things in the local environment 

Over the last couple of weeks, the children have been outside exploring the environmental area as part of their research into living things and what we have in our local environment. The children were very careful to be gentle with the creatures and not to disturb them too much!
 
In Numeracy we have been looking at statistics this week and the classes worked out how to represent the amount of food needed to feed Santa's reindeer throughout the year. 
 
They have also been brushing up their literacy, history and geography skills in a cross curricula write to imagine they were American solders about to leave from the Saltash passage to travel over to Normandy to fight in WW2.  
 
Well done on all of your hard work year 4! Keep it up.

 Posted: 18 Dec, 2023

Science, Maths & Computing 

Over the last couple of weeks in Science the children have been learning about living things and animal classification.  We practiced our own classification skills by asking yes/no questions about the biscuits to classify them into groups.  

This week's Maths learning has all been about time and converting analogue clocks to digital times. These boys have really impressed us with their progress and determination. 

For our computing lessons, we have been learning how to edit audio on the app GarageBand on the iPads and adding different sounds to our recordings. 

 Posted: 01 Dec, 2023

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