How quickly this half term has flown by! Year 4 have completed half of their year already and will be in Spring Two will be here before we know it!
Congratulations to Year 4’s new School Council members Zak and Avie! The votes were counted and verified and the class had two clear winners! Year 4 are confident they will do a fantastic job.
In Maths this week, Year 4 have spent the week mastering their formal written multiplication. Year 4 spent more time exploring what it means to partition numbers into parts based on their ones and tens. Year 4 used part whole models to explore how a whole number can be split up into two different parts. Having a deeper understanding of how and why numbers are partitioned really aided the class in their written multiplication. In addition to this, Year 4’s times tables skills have really been improving! This has been another factor in helping Year 4 become more confident in practising the written multiplication.
In English, Year 4 have spent the week writing their explanation texts. Year 4 made sure they included the exciting adverbs and conjunctions they had previously collected in their books as well as using as much of the key scientific vocabulary surrounding the topic of Sound. Then, Year 4 started to write out their paragraphs, explaining all about; how sound is made, vibrations, sound waves, how sound travels through the ear and pitch and volume. The class’s writing was very impressive, the best piece they have produced so far this year! Handwriting is improving consistently, so much care is being taken with spelling and their subject knowledge about Sound really shone through their work.
In RE, Year 4 explored the eight Beatitudes attributed to Jesus. The class discussed these proclamations together and then carefully translated their meanings. As Christians, it is important that we understand why Jesus gave us these messages to help guide us in our journey to become closer to God. These proclamations, give us clear signs of the values Jesus wanted us to maintain such as; patience, kindness, mercy, honesty, fairness and many more.
In Science, Year 4 had a wonderful time testing the theory that distance affects the volume of a sound. We discussed why we thought that a sound is quieter at a longer distance and louder at a shorter distance, exploring how air particles affect how loud or quiet a noise is. To put this to the test, the class created their own cup and string telephones and practised communicating from close together and far apart.
Year 4 discussed how we could make sure the experiment was a fair test by using the same volume when we were communicating close together and far away. We also discussed how our experiment possibly was not fair, some cups ended up with bigger holes than others and we agreed together that that could affect how and where the sound traveled to.
In History, Year 4 carried on exploring King Ethelred and how he payed the Vikings not to invade Britain. The class used a Viking poem to bring out their acting abilities to act out the story of King Ethelred the ‘Unready’ failing in his fight against the Vikings! Everyone was split into five groups and each group were given a verse to bring to life. The class worked so well together, show casing how much they have developed their resilience and team work skills.
In Geography, Year 4 have been looking at where our food comes from. We looked at different types of food and which countries Great Britain get their imported food from. We were surprised to learn we get a lot of our produce all the way from China and India! Year 4 then looked at the negatives at importing so much of our country’s food. Some of the negative impacts we discovered were the effect food miles has on global warming in producing so much carbon dioxide, creating less work for local British farmers and how we may lose understanding of where our food specifically comes from. The class then ordered the nine negative facts about food miles from what they thought was the most serious down to what they believed to be the least serious.
If you are on the Holy Communion programme, please remember to bring your ‘I Belong’ book on Monday ready for Tuesday’s session.
Congratulations to our award winners:
Golden Award - Bobby.
Writing Award - Emma.
Maths Award - Charlotte.
Thank you from everyone in Year 4!
