Blog by Category: Year 4

Kai has been super busy this weekend sewing an amazing 3D Father Christmas. We are very impressed!

We are mega proud of two of our sporting legends in Year 4. 

Tayon received Most Valuable Player in a recent football match and Kaiya has earned her Red Belt in martial arts! Aren't they amazing. 

In English we were looking at embedded clauses. We played a game where we had to role a dice to choose a sentence from the ‘main clause’ column and another sentence from the ‘embedded clause’ column, then we had to write the sentence correctly in our books. We ended up with some really funny…

We are practicing speech in Year 4. We use a speech sandwich to help us remember - Bread ("), butter (words spoken), ham (punctuation), bread ("). Today we  constructed speech sentences making sure we had EVERYTHING we need!

This week we are thinking all about the nativity story and how it shows us that God fulfilled his promise to Mary.

We had to re-tell the story in different ways. Some of us had to create comic strips and some of us had to create news reports!

Check out our newsreports in this video. Miss…

Year 4 are becoming experts at block coding. We are using our skills to create an online game through Espresso Coding. This term we have been learning all about variables and changing different ones. This week tested our knowledge by 'debugging'; we had to spot the errors in a code and fix…

This week is the first week of advent, which is Hope. We looked at Matthew 12:17-21 “And in his name, the nations will put his hope” and discussed what this scripture may mean.

We joined in with a song all about hope, this was a really joyful, uplifting song, which showed us that when we put…

Today we learnt all about Joseph and how angel Gabriel visited him to tell him about Mary having a baby. We realised that he really had to trust in God as it was such a scary, unknown and unusual thing for him to do. We went outside to complete a trust exercise with our partner - we were able to…

We are becoming so confident at calculating the perimeter of rectangles and squares! 

Today we were introduced to perimeter. Perimeter Man walks around the entire outside of a shape, adding as he goes. This helped us understand that perimeter is the total length of all the sides of a shape. To help us learn we did a few fun activities.

1. We went outside to draw the perimeter of…

In RE this term we have been learning about people in the Bible who had to trust in God. This week we spent time learning about Mary and exploring the story of when Gabriel visited her to tell her all about having baby Jesus. We thought lots about how Mary would have felt, why God chose her, why…

We are loving our ICT lessons. This term we are learning all about Block Coding, we have to follow the instructions to create a game. Miss Collins is so impressed with our skills.