Welcome to the Summer Term!

We can't wait to continue sharing our learning with you.

PE Days

In term 5, we have PE on a Monday, as well as swimming on a Wednesday.  This term we will be doing Athletics and Swimming. 

Please can we ask that the correct PE/swimming kit is to be in school ready for lessons at all times including outdoor PE kit as we like to get outside and be active as much as possible.

English

To begin our term we are looking at an Ancient Egyptian legend about Pharoah Osiris and Isis. 

Maths

Fractions and Decimals

To start with this term we are continuing to look at fractions and decimals.

Religious Education

Pilgrimages

During this term we are looking closely at Pilgrimages and how Jerusalem is an important place for many religions to go on pilgrimage to.

Science

Lesson 1

In our first lesson we looked at the different classifications of animals there are in the world: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. We then worked in groups to sort out some pictures of animals into their classification using the knowledge we had learnt about what helps identify them into the categories. 

Classification of animals.

During our lesson today, we looked at the different classifications of animals and then using a Venn diagram we decided if there were different ways we could group the animals rather then in mammals, fish, birds, amphibians and reptiles.  We were able to group them in what they eat: carnivores and herbivores, if they love on land or water and lots of other interesting ways.

Common plants and trees

In our lesson today we looked at how we could use a branching database to help us to identify common plants and trees that we can find in our school grounds.

History

PSHE

Lesson 2 Communities and Volunteering

During our lesson this week, we have been looking at what different groups make up communities and how individuals and volunteers help communities. 

We worked in groups to write down ideas why people would volunteers for Culture, Economic, Personal and Social reasons.

Art

Hermann Finsterlin

During out Art this term, we are looking at sculpture and the artist Hermann Finsterlin. This lesson we looked closely at some of Finsterlin's sketches he created from his dreams and nature for new building designs, and chose one we liked to replicate in our sketch books.

In our next lesson, we sketched natural items in our sketch books to get inspiration of what we could use to help us create our own building design.

Music

French

Computing

Geography

As part of our learning from earlier in the year, Year 4 had a wonderful trip to Snipe Dales Nature Reserve, to test our knowledge on how rivers are formed and explore some of the different features.