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  • Year 4 - Where is Australia?

    Published 08/01/25
    Welcome back to Year 4! This week we have started our new learning topics of Australia and Sound.In science we have been thinking about how sound is made and how it travels. Talking of travelling, in Geography we have learnt where in the world we fin
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  • Year 4 What language is Feliz Navidad and what does it mean?

    Published 18/12/24
    Feliz Navidad is Spanish for Merry Christmas! We have been learning how to sing and play this song on the ukulele in Music. We are proud of all the Year 4 children and the effort they have put into their learning this term. We would like to wish
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  • What do "Jack and Jenny" have to do with donkeys?

    Published 11/12/24
    This week we are excited about our visit from the donkeys. Donkeys first came to Britain with the Romans in AD43. Did you know that a male donkey is called a Jack and a female donkey is called a Jenny? In RE we have been thinking about the Christmas
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  • What do "Jack and Jenny" have to do with donkeys?

    Published 11/12/24
    This week we are excited about our visit from the donkeys. Donkeys first came to Britain with the Romans in AD43. Did you know that a male donkey is called a Jack and a female donkey is called a Jenny? In RE we have been thinking about the Christmas
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  • Year 4 - How can we make a structure to keep standing in an Earthquake?

    Published 04/12/24
    This week we faced a challenge of trying to build a structure from cocktail sticks and marshmallows. We practised our best collaboration skills of designing and building in groups. The tables became tectonic plates, which moved and caused the la
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  • Year 4 - What affects the speed of our sling shot cars?

    Published 27/11/24
    This week's excitement came from racing our versions of F1 cars along the corridor. In DT, we have made slingshot cars, which are propelled by an elastic band. We had to think about the aerodynamics and how they would affect the speed o
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  • Year 4 - What happens when a volcano erupts?

    Published 20/11/24
    This week we have been showing off some of the best learning so far this year through our booklets. The highlight of the week was 'visiting' volcanoes using the VR headsets to look at how a volcano erupts. At least this way we don't
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  • Year 4 - What is the difference between solids, liquids and gases?

    Published 13/11/24
    Some questions we ask in life prove to result in more questions than answers. We had great discussions about solids that act like liquids, and the difference between air and clouds. The children have shown real enquiry skills across all areas of
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  • Year 4 - Where did you travel on Around the World Day?

    Published 06/11/24
    We started our first week back by 'travelling' around the world to Mexico, The Maldives and Italy. We have learnt about the physical and human geography of the countries, spoken some of this language and looked into some of the main tour
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  • Year 4 What is "Everybody is doing it?" by Benjamin Zephaniah about?

    Published 23/10/24
    "Everybody is doing it" is one of the poems written by Benjamin Zephaniah. We used the format to create our own group poems about common themes from around the world. The original poem is about dances from around the world. We wrote about n
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  • Who painted ' A Courtyard of a house in Delft'?

    Published 16/10/24
    This week we have been taking part in the project "Take One Picture", based on the painting 'A Courtyard of a house in Delft' by Pietre do Hooch. Each class has taken inspiration from the painting. We have used it to inspire our sto
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  • What are our different types of teeth used for?

    Published 09/10/24
    This week we learnt about our different kinds of teeth and what they are used for when we eat. We learnt that we could have just one type of tooth as we need incisors to bite, canines to tear and molars to chew. Next week we will learn the importance
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