This morning we had some lovely visitors from Touchstones museum come to our school and deliver an Anglo-Saxon workshop to our Year 4’s. They taught us lots of interesting facts about the Anglo-Saxons, brought a box full of artefacts that we enjoyed looking at and showed us how to do Read more
We have started our new English unit where we will be writing a factual tour about the water cycle. We spent today’s lesson learning some facts about the water cycle and creating our own mini water cycles to observe the process.
We have had a lovely afternoon at our Shared Learning experience with our families. We linked our activity to the book we are currently reading in our English lessons – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The children worked with their adult to design a new chocolate bar – they had Read more
In our Science lesson today, we carried out an investigation to see if the hardness of a toothbrush affects how well it cleans. We tested 3 different types of toothbrushes: soft, medium and hard and timed how long it took to clean whiteboard pen off a sheet of laminated teeth.
Our art topic this half term is Sculpture and 3D. Today we created our own sculptures out of a bar of soap. It was very tricky as the soap was very delicate and broke easily, however, we showed excellent problem-solving skills! Have a look at some of our creations! Read more
Today we had a practical maths lesson to reinforce what we’ve been learning in our maths lessons over the last week. Around the classroom were question cards, each with a different multiplication question. We have to solve the calculation which then led us to the next question.
In our Science lesson this afternoon, we have been learning about human teeth. We have learnt the names of the four different types of teeth in our mouths and the roles that each of them play. * Incisor – used for biting and cutting food. * Canine – used for Read more
This year, Year 4 are taking part in ‘The Linking Project’. We have been partnered with St. Peter’s Primary School and today we got to meet our partner class for the first time. We met at the M6 theatre in Rochdale where we took part in different workshops and activities Read more
We started a new unit in our Maths lessons today, learning about how to find the area of a shape. We talked about how the area of a shape is the name we give to the space it takes up. The larger the shape, the larger it’s area. We used Read more
This half term in Year 4, our DT topic is Structures: Pavilions. In our first lesson we have been exploring different frame structures to test which are the most stable, using toothpicks and sweets. We made basic geometric structures and then created larger structures considering strength and stability. We also Read more