Effective Searching

This afternoon we have been learning about how to carry out effective searches using the internet. We worked together as a class to find the answers to some simple questions. We investigated how searches, which are not clear enough, result in us finding the wrong information. The children then worked Read more

Migration

This half term Maple have been learning all about Migration in Geography. We’ve learnt about why people migrate and how this affects people and places. We’ve investigated some of the push and pull factors that cause people to leave particular countries and the reasons for why they might stay in Read more

Pronouns

This morning Maple have been learning about pronouns. We worked hard to identify pronouns within our own writing. Applying our understanding of nouns, we replaced nouns identified within our work, with pronouns. As part of our extension work we investigated personal. possessive and relative pronouns. Playing a sorting game, we Read more

British Science Week

This week Year 4 Maple have been celebrating British Science week and thinking about what it means to be a Scientist. The children each drew a picture of what they think a scientist looks like and unsurprisingly we had a lot of Einstein style drawings. We want young people to Read more

Buttery biscuits!

This afternoon we have been tasting and making biscuits! We began by evaluating 6 different types of biscuit according to their: taste smell texture appearance packaging target audience We then followed a basic biscuit-making recipe. We used techniques such as creaming, sieving and rubbing to combine all of the ingredients. Read more

Forest School

This week Year 4 Maple have enjoyed our first Forest School session. We are linking our sessions with RE in the lead up to the celebration of Easter. Today we learnt all about the beginning of lent and why we celebrate with pancakes. We then enjoyed some pancakes by the Read more

World Book Day

Today has been World Book Day. The children from Maple all looked fabulous dressed up in their favourite character costumes. We began the day by writing a review of our favourite books – books by Roald Dahl and David Walliams were very popular! We took part in a ‘live lesson’ Read more

Space

This half term year 4 will be learning all about space. During today’s lesson our focus question was ‘What are solar and lunar eclipses?’. To help us understand how an eclipse works we went into the playground and worked in groups of 3, with one person playing the role of Read more