Year 4 News

This week we got to dress as a favourite book character with the theme of Journeys. We came to school dressed as our favourite characters, including Anne of Green Gables, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, Horrid Henry, Gangster Granny, dif

Year 4 have had a busy week starting new learning about Ancient Greece and animal habitats. We were able to interview famous Greeks and discovered that a lot of the way we think and behave is down to those philosophers and politicians. We have also d

As promised more news about our Australia day celebrations. We were looking at the whole area of Australian culture. We used cotton buds to create Aboriginal-inspired art, baked Anzac biscuits and understood how remembrance was celebrated differ

Sound is all around us, and for those of us who are fortunate to hear it, there are so many sounds around us all the time. Year 4 have been looking at how sound changes with different pitches. This links so closely to our music and tuning the ukulele

During the last few weeks we have really enjoyed learning about Christmas traditions from around the world. We have been able to celebrate the diversity of our Dorchester Community with Christmas around the world. If you would like to find out more p

Our Geography this week looked at what happens in an earthquake and how buildings have developed to be safer in these areas of the week. We created a 'building' using spaghetti and marshmallows, then used a tray of jelly to see how stable it