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.

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.

Year 4 have been learning about Sound in Science this half term and we have completed lots of investigations to answer scientific questions.

As part of the Harris Schools Sports Partnership, Year 4 took part in a cricket festival at Harris School.

Year 4 have been investigating materials, so they can make educated decisions about their own greenhouse designs.

Year 4 have had a great day learning all about habitats and environmental issues with James from OneDay Creative.

Year 4 have had a fantastic time at Rugby School’s ‘Festival on the Close’. We took park in Sports, Mandarin, Engineering, watched an interactive performance by TeachRex Live and finished the day with some Biology experiments.

Sports day was lots of fun and it was great to see so many parents there supporting us.

We enjoyed having an extra 15 minutes of playtime, for winning Reading Heroes.

We’ve had lots of fun on the climbing wall and learning circus skills.

This half term, Year 4 have been identifying and investigating the properties of different 2-d shapes.

As part of Year 4’s DT project ‘Making mini greenhouses’, they have been exploring stable structures and deciding which 3-d shape will allow in the most light but also remain strong and stable.

Year 4 have been learning all about volcanoes and today they produced non chronological reports.

Have a look at their work in progress.

As part of Year 4’s Art topic - ‘Conference for the Birds’, they have been learning how birds build nests, experimenting with charcoal, graphite, water colours and wax resist and exploring malleable materials to make their own nests.  

Year 4 have been analysing the features of non-chronological reports.

Today, Year 4 went climbing. Lots of the children conquered their fear of heights. They were a true inspiration and supported and encouraged each other throughout.

We had an evening walk (approximately 3 miles) around the beautiful Stanwick Lakes and even had a go on the zip wire.

We had great fun canoeing and going for a swim in the river.

Year 4’s adventures at Rock UK Frontier Centre, have got off to a fun start.

In our Listening and Appraisal lessons, we have been listening to lots of different genres of music. Have a look at the children’s responses.

In English, we are learning about the features of a diary and how to write them.

Year 4 have been working hard learning about different units of measure.

We have been creating classification keys for animals that live in different habitats.

Year 4 produce some work with Clare Pentlow of CJP designs, to produce a piece of public art for  the Routes and Connections project.
The artwork will be displayed on Albert Street from May 2024.

Year 4 have been learning how to find the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.

Year 4 have been out investigating invertebrates in our local environment.

Our knowledge of pneumatic systems, helped us to create moving monsters.

Year 4 have created art work in the style of Hilary Pecis.

Year 4 have been working hard learning about decimals.

Year 4 have had lots of fun, celebrating World Book Week.

we’ve been on book hunts, read stories to Year 2, designed book tokens, guessed the Masked Reader, designed our our mythical/magical creatures and had an amazing visit off the author Cat Weatherill.

Year 4 have been working hard (and having fun) in Maths, learning about decimals.