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  • Why was Boudicca a good leader?

    Published 02/10/24
    Last week we became entrepreneurs, creating our own company for making biscuits. We adapted recipes to include chocolate, marshmallows, icing and sprinkles in a range of interesting shapes. Some biscuits were more successful than others. We also wrot
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  • How did Julius Zebra feel about moving to Rome?

    Published 25/09/24
    This week has been a very busy week. We have been working on our English diary writing, from the point of view of Julius Zebra. He is a zebra living happily in Africa, during the Roman times. He is captured with a warthog and a lion and is transporte
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  • What are the main organs in our body?

    Published 18/09/24
    I'm sure you will agree that this example of home learning from one of our children this week is amazing. We have been learning about the different systems in our body, and how they are connected. We all agreed our body is incredible, especially
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  • Year 4 - Who were the Celts?

    Published 11/09/24
    This week we have started our lessons in full force. We have been thinking about who the Celts were and that the Iceni Tribe, from modern Norfolk, were one of the most influential tribes. We discovered that they were the people in Britain before the
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  • Year 4

    Published 04/09/24
    Welcome back! It was great to see the children back in school this week. We have settled back into our new classes well, getting to know each other, with everyone starting to make new friends. We have been writing poetry and exploring place value. We
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  • Year 4 - How can you make art from card and wire?

    Published 19/07/24
    We have had fun looking at a range of artists that create sculptures from different materials. We discovered that Jaume Plensa creates art from metal. Some of his sculptures can be seen at London Bridge station.  This inspired us to cr
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  • Year 4 - How well could we skip?

    Published 12/07/24
    This week we took part in a skipping workshop. We learnt some basic skipping skills and also some tricks - some were easier than others! We also had a go at big jump ropes. We had so much fun, even if we found some of it challenging! This week we
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  • Year 4 - So what did the weather forecaster say?

    Published 05/07/24
    These lyrics are famous from Louis Armstrong's song "Jeepers Creepers".  Now, I don't care what the weather man says, When the weatherman says it's raining You'll never hear me complaining. I'm certain the sun
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  • Year 4 - What is Eudaimonia and how do we show it?

    Published 28/06/24
    Year 4 have discovered that Eudaimonia is not a disease - which was one person initially thought - but it is in fact the state of happiness and joy that we feel when we are growing and flourishing. We all experience this at different times of th
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  • Year 4 - A generous donation led to an afternoon of creativity!

    Published 21/06/24
    Last week, Green class had an amazing opportunity. After a generous donation of some boxes of Lego, Green class got creative. They were given the title of "A way to travel" in any time period. They were putting into practice the s
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  • Year 4 - Read all about it!

    Published 13/06/24
    Read all about it here! - well, in our Star Write books. This week we have put our best journalistic skills to the test in researching and writing a newspaper report about Henry VIII's break from the Catholic Church and his marriage to Anne Boley
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  • Year 4 - Do you think Henry should be allowed a divorce from Catherine of Aragon?

    Published 06/06/24
    We have become detectives this week, finding the real reasons why Henry VIII wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon. We are going to put these to good use over the next few weeks to write a newspaper article on the scandal that was the reformatio
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