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Year 4 - Snow Leopard & Spider Monkey
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Snow Leopard and Spider Monkey
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TERM 6
Week ending 6th June 2025
We were lucky enough to have the Thames Explorer Trust visit us this week to deliver a river workshop. This was a lovely start to our geography topic this term. We learnt about the parts of a river, famous rivers and the water cycle.
River workshop
Acting out the history of Leeds Castle
Week ended 23rd May - End of Term 5
We have made bird feeders in science, we had an archery tournament that was won overall by Yellow house and we are finishing the term off with an art day making collages and a school trip to Leeds Castle.
Making bird feeders and archery
Guinea pigs and Roman shields
Fortnight ended 16th May 2025
Term 5 is flying by and we are having so much fun!
As a reward for our hard work this term, we took lunch and our PE kit to the park and had an afternoon of fun activities. We may have had a sneaky Mr Whippy ice cream too whilst we were there!
We celebrated VE Day with fish and chips on the field and a family picnic after school.
Fortnight ended 2nd May 2025
We have had a fab start to Term 5. We have class guinea pigs that we all love and are learning how to look after. We have made planters for Earth Day, designed our own Roman shields and studied their battle formations, and been learning our timestables ready for the MTC next term.
Term 4 Spelling lists
Water Cycle Dioramas
28th March 2025
It has been a busy few weeks! We have completed news reports about Boudicca, learnt about the water cycle, started learning about decimals and been writing fantasy stories.
Term 4
6th March 2025
World Book Day
We had an amazing day today, all dressed
up in wonderful costumes and taking part in lots of activities. We joined up with Reception classes for a buddy read and completed bookmarks and arts and craft.
We had a wonderful start to Term 4 with our Roman Day. We trained as Gladiators, wrote in beeswax, made good luck amulets and played traditional Roman games.
It was brilliant, we all had lots of fun, learnt Latin and Roman numerals and loved dressing up.
We had a great day with Mr Berry, learning all about States of Matter. We did lots of fun experiments; we made candles, popping candy chocolate, investigated melting and cooling and an exploding rocket!
Mr Berry science day
Roman Day
Term 3
Fortnight ended 14th February 2025
We have been studying Hokusai in Art this term, looking at his 36 views of Mount Fuji and making stamps from wool and card to emulate the string method he used.
We have been enjoying science week, lots of visitors in telling us about jobs in science and doing experiments and lots of fun activities to take part in. We made rockets, played with dry ice and experimented with kinetic sand.
Fortnight ended 31st January 2025
We had lots of fun at the Ultimate Frisbee Tournament.
We have started our English unit on Warning tales, completed our multiplication and division unit in maths and have loved learning about sound in science.
We have been fascinated by the tales of Pompeii in geography and have enjoyed the range of topics covered in our guided reading lessons. PE has been dodgeball and we have been studying Hokusai in art.
Fortnight ended 17th January 2025
We have been investigating sound and vibrations in science and making dream catchers and talking about our hopes and dreams in RSE.
We have started our study of volcanoes in geography and been using what we have been learning to help us write explanation texts in English.
Y4 Spellings Term 3 Group 1
Y4 Spellings Term 3 Group 2
Spellings Term 2
Fortnight ended 13.12.24
We used our knowledge of electrical circuits to make light up LED Christmas cards!
We have been hard at work, rehearsing for our Carol concert and have been designing biscuits in DT.
We have written our own Christmas poems to perform in the concert. We attended the Carols on the Playground event and we have been "defeating the monster" in our English writing lessons.
Maths has been a continuation of our multiplication and division unit.
Fortnight ended 29.11.24
- We have created electrical circuits and tested electrical conductors and insulators.
- in Geography we created different mountains out of play dough.
Term Two
Fortnight ended 15.11.24
- We have learned about Remembrance day and explored war poetry, culminating in a wonderful display in the hall of our haikus and wartime silhouette art. We paid our respects with a two minute silence.
- We have also commenced our study of mountains in geography, electricity in science and are learning about Hindu traditions in RE.
Wartime art gallery
Fortnight ended 11.10.24
- We have continued our human body learning and explored the digestive system by making a model of the intestine out of tights.
- We have been using the column method to add and subtract up to four digit numbers with two exchanges. We have written our own wishing tales and learnt about speech punctuation.
- We have been looking at effective searching in Computing and making silhouette puppet shows in art.
Science - Digestive system experiment
Fortnight ended 30.09.24
- We have been learning about the Ancient Greeks and looking at how they influenced modern day.
- We made tin foil models of Olympic competitors and talked about the similarities and differences between the games now and then.
- In science, we have been investigating the effects of stomach acid and what happens to food on the journey through the gut.
History - Creating Ancient Greek competitors in the Olympics
Making teeth from plasticine
Welcome to Year 4!
What a fab start to the year we have had.
Term 1
- This week we have commenced our science unit by looking at teeth. We have learnt the different types of teeth and examined our teeth using mirrors. We have also learnt how to keep our teeth healthy by brushing them, and what a tooth is made up of.
- We started our learning about the Ancient Greeks by examining artefacts and talking about primary and secondary sources.
- We have been looking at numbers up to 10,000 in maths and we have been learning all about biographies in English.
- We sung Mama Mia in music and composed songs using glockenspiels.
- PE this term is swimming and gymnastics for Spider Monkeys and hockey and gymnastics for Snow Leopards.