Year 4

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Curriculum scrapbook

Spring 1

alternative of the image - See caption below — We were delighted to be welcomed back to our fresh, new library. We loved reading our new collections of books and we are loving our weekly visits.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We studied the Victorian era in our history topic. This involved looking at artefacts and pictures from 150 years ago! We even found the original rules from the workhouse at Moorgreen hospital – we found this fascinating and even found out that the children had to move lots of rocks all day!

alternative of the image - See caption below — We made our own digestive system in our own classroom. This involved making food, mashing it up and then straining it through tights to make our own faeces. We loved this and it will certainly be a lesson we all remember.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Whilst researching the Victorians, we made presentations to teach our friends about an aspect of Victorian life. Our topics included: inventions, Queen Victoria, famous bridges, education and workhouses. It was fascinating to see how well the groups worked together and how much information was taught to the rest of the class.

alternative of the image - See caption below — As part of our PE, we had to learn and perform a dance, so we learnt a Victorian Waltz.

alternative of the image - See caption below — This was very different to any of our modern dances but we loved performing them.

alternative of the image - See caption below — On the final Thursday before half term, we had a Victorian Day. We had some amazing costumes including smart teachers, poor people, workhouse children and Victorian business owners.

alternative of the image - See caption below — During our Victorian Day, we tried different activities that would have been taught during Victorian era education. This included cotton weaving (pictured), long mental addition, times tables chanting and technical drawing.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We also had a Victorian PE lesson with Mr Adams as Victorian PE teacher – they are scary! This was very different to our modern day PE lessons. It involved a lot of getting up, jumping and repeating basic movements. Victorian children would have been bored but very fit!

Spring 2

alternative of the image - See caption below — After our half term break, we discovered that something had be roaming our outdoor environmental area. We had to use of detective skills to investigate what may have been lurking in our school grounds. We concluded that it had been something beastly and vicious and had the taste for blood.

alternative of the image - See caption below — As part of our English unit, we used Google software to create a very own beasts that would be included in our next writing journey. We used our computing skills to create scary 3D beasts. We also developed our skills in adding files to our class teams folders.

alternative of the image - See caption below — For World book Day, we enjoyed a fun filled day full of different activities with a focus on the love of reading. We had the opportunity to illustrate like Quentin Blake, collaborate by making a whole class story and sharing our favourite books with Year 5.

alternative of the image - See caption below — The child led collective worship children presented a fantastic and confident Collective Worship about the theme of favouritism. The children provided a bible story with the theme of favouritism and as a class we discussed the negative effect of having favourites.

alternative of the image - See caption below — As part of our music unit, our journey began by understand the beat and rhythm of songs. We understood that songs becoming faster or slower due to the speed of the rhythm.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We then developed our understanding of music in the written form and how the rhythm is presented of sheet music using crochets, quavers, semi-breves and crocket rests. With this knowledge, we created our own 8 note songs using glockenspiels and the C pentatonic scale.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Sadly, our outdoor collective worship week did not go to plan due to the weather but we still had the opportunity create a web in the classroom. This represented connection through communication. Eventually, we did get the chance to go outside and look at the signs of spring that God had provided us.

alternative of the image - See caption below — For PE this half term, we were served with developing our racket and balls skills. Tennis was the sport on the menu and over the course of the half term we developed our forehand and backhand in small exercises and then moving onto mini games. We aced many of the skills and hopefully you’ll be seeing us at Wimbledon very soon.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Smoothies were on the menu in Year 4 as part of our DT, PSHE and English units. In small groups we researched, designed and made smoothie from different healthy ingredients. We had the opportunity to then improve and refine the recipe and then make our final smoothies. These smoothies have also been made into a set of instruction in English, to then be sold in a class recipe book.

Summer 1

alternative of the image - See caption below — We made beautiful pieces of artwork, which were inspired by our rivers topic. We have sketched and then carved our image on a polystyrene block. Then we rolled our paint and pressed down firmly. This created a printed version of our sketch – these are on display in year 4 as we were so proud of them.

alternative of the image - See caption below — As part of our overall topic of Raging Rivers, we made a river in the classroom. We used different colours of material to represent the different parts of a river. Then we moved the river in different ways and at different speeds to represent what happens at different stages of the river.

alternative of the image - See caption below — After creating a river in the classroom, we researched different rivers around the UK. We found the 5 longest rivers and located them using google maps. We also researched the River Blackwater as this is a significant river that we would be studying on our class visit.

alternative of the image - See caption below — Whilst at Testwood Lakes, we studied the water cycle. This was a very enjoyable, practical demonstration of the water cycle. The children learnt a lot from this and the smiles were massive.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We had an amazing day at Testwood lakes. The children we fantastic and so curious about everything. We studied the rivers, lakes and found out some new terminology about rivers such as meanders, tributary, source and mouth.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We also played Pooh Sticks from the bridge to study the different flows of the river Blackwater.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We have been working very hard on our guided reading skills with our class story – Varjak Paw. We have thought carefully about inference skills and retrieval skills. In this lesson, we performed a conscience alley where we though about the feelings of a character.

alternative of the image - See caption below — We have really enjoyed our swimming lessons this half term. Its has been lovely to see the progress made by so many children and all children have been very well behaved – keep it up year 4.

alternative of the image - See caption below — In science, we have been studying sound. We found out how sound is created and how we hear sounds. Then we conducted a sound experiment on the playground to find out what happens to sound if we move further away from it. This led to lots of very scientific discussion about why it gets quieter and what happens to the sound wave.