Year 4 Class News

Environmental Scientists!

Continuing with our STEAM week investigations, Year 4 took a trip to nearby Caldy Woods, this time taking on the role of ecologists and environmental scientists. Thankfully the weather stayed dry for us and armed with our wellies, we took on the muddy terrain!

The children had a wonderful time exploring and looking for living things, and we were able to see a wide range of plants and minibeasts while we were there. The children were also able to make comparisons between our school grounds and the woods as two different habitats in our local environment. They came up with some excellent enquiry questions to investigate!

Year 4’s behaviour was absolutely exemplary and Mrs Cody and Mrs McGregor are so proud of how well they immersed themselves in this super learning experience.

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STEAM Week

Year 4 have started off their STEAM week learning by taking on the role of biologists and exploring the school grounds to identify living things. As part of our enquiry into “What will nature be like in the future?”, the children made observations of the plants and minibeasts that are found around our school grounds and asked careful questions such as thinking about why it is a good thing to have a variety of living things in our local habitat.

The children were then able to analyse the results of what they found by producing a table, a tally chart, a pictogram and a bar chart! We also discussed which was the most reliable and informative way to display our findings out of these different representations.

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Enterprise Week

Year 4 has been transformed into Santa's Workshop this week with their preparations for Enterprise Week. The children decided to design and create sweet treats to sell, including making reindeer out of candy canes.

They have also created Christmas frosted jars and will be putting home made fudge into them to sell.

There have been lots of opportunities for cross curricular links, including using maths to measure all the ingredients for the fudge and work out our budget and expected profits; and art, to design posters to advertise and decorate our stall where we sell the goodies. 

Year 4 have shown lots of excellent team work and have been really creative and enthusiastic during all their hard work this week. 

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Simple Circuits

Year 4 have really enjoyed investigating electricity during their science topic this half term. They have created simple circuits using components like bulbs, buzzers and motors, and have made observations of what happens when the circuit is connected. The children are able to make connections as to why a bulb is brighter when there are two batteries in the circuit, or what the impact of having two bulbs in a circuit instead of one will be on the brightness.

The children have finished up this topic by identifying materials which are good conductors of electricity and which are insulators. They really enjoyed searching the science room for materials and tested everything from a hole punch to a lab stool, and a pencil sharpener to the metal coat hangers.

Miss Robertson has been really impressed by the children's working scientifically skills!

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African Inspired Artwork

Year 4 had a lovely afternoon on Friday creating artwork inspired by traditional African patterns. The children began by using pencil to sketch out their ideas and then went over their finished pattern in black pen. They now have the task of using earthy colours like orange, brown and yellow to finish off their pieces. 

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European Day of Languages

Year 4 had a great day on Monday travelling around school and visiting each classroom, which turned into a different European country for the day. They made sure to get their passport stamped at each country/classroom they went to visit.

Their first stop on their Avalon Airways journey was to Croatia, where they learned about features of the landscape and architecture that Croatia is famous for.

The children then enjoyed looking at the works of Croatian artist Ivan Rabuzi, who has created artwork to reflect the beautiful Croatian countryside and distinctive red roofed buildings. They had a go at creating their own artwork in the style of Rabuzi, using sketching techniques.

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Welcome back to school Year 4