Today when we arrived at school something odd had happened! Frogs had fallen from the ceiling! Over the next week we are going investigate what has happened and create newspaper reports based on our findings. Today we walked around as detectives and created questions that we could ask eye witnesses. Read more…
Year 4s Science topic this half term is ‘Phases of matter’. During our Science lesson we learnt that all matter can come in three states: solids, liquids and gases. Each of these three states of matter have particular properties. These properties can help us tell which state of matter a Read more…
Year 4 Hawthorn have had a fantastic morning! Touchstones came into our school to teach us all about the Romans. We learnt facts about the Romans and we created our own veillums. Touchstones have also left an artefacts box with us to have a look at over the next few Read more…
The children have settled in really well into Year 4 Hawthorn! During English lessons this half term we will be looking at ‘The BFG’ By Roald Dahl so we started the school Year off with some fun BFG activities. We created dream catchers, dream jars, drew pictures of the BFG Read more…
During Art week, Year 4 researched the artist ‘ William Morris.’ First they went on a hunt outside to find facts that were around the play ground about William Morris. Next, they used the facts they had learnt to create an artist research page. We then practised drawing flowers and Read more…
A group of children were very lucky to work with Mrs Weatherhead, who is the author of ‘Lizzifly in a quest for paradise, last week. These session included: dancing to warm up, performing, playing musical instruments, writing their own poems , writing, answering comprehension questions and remembering facts and much Read more…
A fabulous Summer fair with a great turn out.
During Science, we conducted an experiment called ‘Dancing Raisins’. We placed raisins in water and also in lemonade. The raisins in lemonade started to dance. The combination of raisin and gas is less dense than the raisin alone, so when many “bubbles” form on the raisin, they lift the raisin Read more…
During Geography lessons, Year 4 are learning about Rivers so we took a trip to see the River Roch. Whilst were we there, we conducted an investigation to look at the speed of the River. We also enjoyed some quiet time sketching the river.
During Science this week, we looked at the digestive system. We thought it was very funny creating our own model with Mrs Downing. We could talk about the functions of the mouth, saliva, the esophagus, the stomach, the small intestine, the large intestine, the rectum and the anus. We are Read more…