Year 4

Published on 22nd January

Today Year 4 participated in an online author workshop with Vashti Hardy, author of the Harley Hitch & Brightstorm series. She gave us lots of brilliant tips for writing our own stories, starting with drawing a map of our own fantasy land. The children had some amazing ideas - after the workshop, they drew their maps in more detail and we are planning to use them as the basis for their own stories in a couple of weeks.

Published on 21st November

In their Science lessons this week, the children in Year 4 have continued their learning about Ecology with an investigation into the effects of deforestation. We learned how to plan and demonstrate a comparative experiment, whilst also applying rules of fair testing. Our experiment was an attempt to answer the following enquiry question:

Published on 21st November

Perseus Class thoroughly enjoyed this weeks Science lesson about classification, in which we used biscuits to help us understand how to use a Dichotomous Key or Branching Diagram to sort living things.

Published on 22nd June

Year 4 visited the British Museum in order to see the Benin Bronzes as part of their topic Benin: A Lost Kingdom. They were amazed at the detail and the craftsmanship of the plaques in particular - they really are stunning in real life! The children recognised lots of the artefacts from our work in class. They then took part in a workshop about the Edo people and how we know about the Kingdom of Benin from the artefacts that have survived, as they had no written language.

Published on 8th June

Today, Year 4 watched a livestream event with the author of Varjak Paw, SF Said. We have been reading Varjak in class and based all our reading and writing lessons around it this half tem, so we are big fans! He was talking about his book Tyger, which has just won the British Book Awards Children's Fiction Book of the Year, and they children loved it when he read an extract from it. Tyger took him 9 years to write!