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Our teachers are Mr Brearley-Ince and Mr Harrison, the sports coach, who supports the class until dinner. On Wednesday afternoons, we have Ms Perkin  and Mr Harrison.

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 Is Creativity Ever Wrong?

Key Driver: Art

Key Concepts: expression, communication, interpretation, structure and empathic understanding.

This term in Year 4, we will be looking at the big question ‘Is Creativity Ever Wrong?’ We will be learning about artists, musicians and their varying styles throughout history to help us mull over this conundrum.  In Year 4, our art focus will be on pointillism and sculpting, while our music focus will be on classical compositions. 

Week commencing 21.06.21

We made a list of all the components we need to include in our Podcast. We talked about some people who help our community and enacted what they do in their jobs. We experimented with electrical circuits, adding lights, switches and buzzes. Eureka! Light bulb moment.

Week commencing 14.06.21

We filled in our 100 square again! Woop woop. We looked at how to make whole numbers from tenths and hundredths. We pieced information together based on the theme of the writing. We all wore yellow in support of Cystic Fibrosis - some of us were VERY yellow.

Week commencing 17.05.21

We applied pointillism to a Seurat classic. We began to explore how to divide one and two digit numbers by 100. Cha-cha slide to the right!

Week Commencing 10.05.21

This week we started to explore tenths and hundredths in maths. We learned about some classical composers in music. In PE, we designed birds’ eye views of some assault courses.

Week Commencing 03.05.21

In art we tried to create depth and optical illusions using pointillism. In art we tried to create depth and optical illusions using pointillism. In art we tried to create depth and optical illusions using pointillism. In art we tried to create depth and optical illusions using pointillism. In art we tried to create depth and optical illusions using pointillism. In art we tried to create depth and optical illusions using pointillism. In art we tried to create depth and optical illusions using pointillism. In English, we wrote a balanced argument on the pros and cons of buying a new house. In maths, we started to look at tenths and various representations of tenths.

Week Commencing 26.04.21

In science, we learned that the source of a sound is a vibration. We learned that different shaped bands make different vibrations; making different sounds. We learned how to find fractions of a whole amount in Maths. In music, we learned to play the first few cords to Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

 Are the Fearless Brave?

Key Driver: History

Key Concepts: Law, empathetic understanding, causation and consequence, interpretation, equality

This term in Year 4, we will be looking at the big question ‘Are the Fearless Brave?’ We will be learning about courageous people throughout history to help us mull over the this conundrum; spanning from the Anglo-Saxon and Viking warriors to modern day justice seekers.

 

Week Commencing 14th September, 2020

This week, we tackled rounding to 1,000. Who remembers the worm and cowboy song? We partitioned 1,000s, trying to find interesting ways to split up 4-digit numbers. We had an ICT intensive week and learned a lot about text coding and block-based coding. We created a time line to see where our Anglo-Saxons fit in. What does BC and AD mean? Our fish settled into their new home. Meet Danny, Daniella, Dante and Danise; the danios.

Week Commencing 21st September, 2020

We planned and then wrote our wonderful adaptions of 'How the Train Your Dragon'. We explored some Anglo-Saxon artefacts to see if we could decipher more about them. We decided these look like gardening tools. The Anglo-Saxons were blacksmithing farmers! We began to come up with creative ways to capture learning in our 'Learning Journals'.

Week Commencing the 5th October

We spent a lot of time looking at exchanges when adding 1s, 10s, 100s and 1,000s. This a a peek inside Esmai's book, showing off some awesome column addition. In English, we looked at creating a non-chronological report. Katie's work is too beautiful to not share! Our stars of the week this week are Connor D and Faith, who drew when we voted.

Week commencing 12th October

Using our counters and place value knowledge to help us tackle subtractions We continued to use what we'd learned at our tables. This helped move onto finding the difference using bar methods. We wrote about the fact of climate change and the dangers for extreme weather. We learned about the Futhorc Runes, the Vikings alphabet, and turned them in our concepts.

Week Commencing the 9th November

A bit of scientific research from Lexi. Sophie's designer cowl designs in DT. A bit of extra curricular work from Keira. Keira's maths work. Layout- check! Aiden's cowl designs. One modern and one authentic. Millie's description paragraph of her favourite teddy. Very 80s. Deacon's maths - working with measurements. Cracking on with preposition, aided by a feline friend. Aiden's preposition work. Faith's autumnal cowl design. Tommy's lengths and measurements maths work. Working hard to crack that maths!

Week Commencing 16th November

Planning a myth on our story mountains These are going to be the most legendary, mythical quest stories ever! A perfect story plan done virtually! Experimenting with finding the perimeter. "Perimeter, perimeter - add up all the sides for perimeter." Looking for patterns in perimeter. We build the shapes using counters. 8cm widths = 8 counters across.

Week Commencing the 30th November

We started to look at perimeter of quadrilaterals We also had a gander at the perimeter of triangles. We came up with lots of interesting ways to represent the perimeter of shapes. We also did a bit of drama; acting out the Anglo-Saxon's welcoming Eric Bloodaxe's rule. And then kicking Eric off the throne a year later. And finally slaying Eric after he tried to reclaim the Northumbrian kingdom.

Week Commencing the 7th December

We got ready for the festive season in style, jazzing up our classroom. We created streamers and hanging decorations. We covered our working walls in splashed of colour. We dangled tinsel from everywhere we could and made awesome baubles for our living tree. We also did some epic writing about a toy that comes to life at Christmas.
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