Year 4
Fabulous Finish - French Cafe, making felt, playing knuckle bones and building bridges.
Year 4 Cricket Festival
Sports Day
Exploring and discussing the question ‘Can you be a Christian Online?’
DT Week 1 - exploring secure structures as part of our Mini Greenhouses project
Art Day 1 - Experimenting with charcoal, graphite and clay - drawing and making nests inspired by the Migrations Project and Marcus Coates
Working as a team to make exploding volcanoes was the main activity for Year 4’s Stunning Start.
Coil pots - inspired by pots of ancient Greece
Art Day - Still Life Art inspired by Hillary Pecis
Making habitat dioramas to support their Science learning - Animals and their Habitats
Finding areas of objects using cubes
Asking investigative questions and researching information as part of our unit on writing non-chronological reports
Exploring perimeters using geoboards
Adding and subtracting decimals using bead strings and Base Ten
World Book Week 2025
Year 4 have enjoyed taking part in a book hunt and sharing their favourite books with each other, as well as playing Top Trumps to find out more about Ancient Greek gods, sharing their favourite books with each other and creating their own mythical creatures.
Our storytelling session with Mike Peyton was very inspiring and engaging.
Making pneumatic systems and choosing which would be best for our Moving Monsters.
Investigating whether a material is a conductor or an insulator.
Ninja Warrior Kids
Year 4 had a wonderful time watching The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at The Symphony Hall.
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Art Day Spring 1
Year 4 are studying the post-surrealist artist Paul Cezanne and his still life works of art.
They have created their own still life motifs from glass bottles, perfume bottles and flowers.
Using a variety of mediums such as oil pastels, wax crayons, chalks, pencil crayons, graphite and felt tip pens, they have experimented with different elements of art.
Year 4 have been researching the changes in population and reasons between Ancient and Modern Greece and presenting their findings as posters and information leaflets.
Year 4 have been finding non unit fractions of amounts.
As part of our Fabulous Finish, Year 4 children followed instructions to make woolly mammoths out of milk cartons.
Father Christmas and his elves visited Northlands and gave each child a gift.
Art Day
Year 4 have been studying the work of illustrator and author, Cressida Cowell to inspire them to create their own versions of illustrations from Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’.
In Science, we are learning about changing states of matter.
Today, we performed an experiment to discover which drink contained the most carbon dioxide and therefore was the fizziest.
Year 4 have been working hard recalling their multiplication facts on TTRS.
Year 4 have been comparing and sorting materials, considering their properties and particle arrangements.
Year 4 have been been learning about musical notations to improve their improvisation and composition skills.
In English today, we have been asking questions about The Water Cycle and researching the answers in preparation for writing our explanation texts.
Our new topic in Science, is Changing States of Matter. Today, we learnt about Bernard Palissy and his work about The Water Cycle.
In maths, we have been using different methods to represent and solve multiplication problems.
In maths, we have been learning how to use different methods to solve multiplication and division problems.
We used RUCSAC to help us too.
We have been practicing our sewing skills - learning how to do running stitch, cross stitch, over stitch and back stitch.
Year 4 Art Day
we have been learning about the illustrator Laura Carlin and experimenting with different types of charcoal and used putty and white chalk for mark making.
we also explored the poem ‘Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll and used our imaginations and mark making skills to create images.
Year 4 worked on the computers to compose rhythmic patterns- showing their understanding of pulse, rhythm, tempo and time signatures.
In Maths, so far, we have been learning about place value, rounding and exploring different strategies for addition and subtraction.
This half term, we have used the books How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth and Stone Age Boy in English.
We have written instructions, a diary and a setting description so far.
We went on a school trip to Compton Verney, where we took part in a Stone Age workshop to enhance our History skills and knowledge.
Year 4 have been listening to and appraising lots of different types of music, including Early, Music, Baroque, Romantic, Early Classical and Classical and Contemporay.
