Thursday 14th February, we welcomed Mr Singh, a special Sikh visitor, into school.  He filled our day with interesting information, calmness and ideas for leading a peaceful, happy fulfilled life. 

At the end of the day, all Year 4, including the adults, felt they knew lots about Sikhism and its followers.  They could relate the information to the Christian religion, suggesting similarities and differences.

Year 4 have had fun and worked really hard creating presentations for their Buzz! games.

The children were nervous but excited when they performed their presentation.

They also wrote letters to a local toy store persuading them to sell their toy.
They included exaggerated, persuasive sentences to make the reader believe they really need to stock the toy. 

We are loving our new topic electricity.
We have been around school looking for different appliances that run off the mains or that use batteries. We even discovered some things that were solar powered.

Last week, we were given wires, batteries, bulbs and crocodile clips and set with the challenge to make the bulb light up.
We found out that it needs to be in a full circuit without any breaks for the electrical current to flow around in order for the bulb to light up.

Some of us found it frustrating at first when we couldn't figure out how to put the circuit together correctly, but with great determination and perserverance we kept going and we were delighted when the bulb finally lit!

Year four had lots of fun today orienteering around the school grounds. We used a map of the school, a compass and some clues to find pictures relating to something we're learning about as part of our topic on Crime and Punishment with the Ancient Romans.
We had pictures of the Colosseum, slaves, a sword and helmet, Caesar holding his thumb up or down and wild animals. Can you guess what the topic might be?....
Did you guess correctly? Yes that's right! Gladiators!

Year 4 had a sticky time making mosaics with their parents in this week's family fun session.
Marvellous mosaics were  created with the help of their plans, coloured paper, glue and, most importantly,   parents! We can't wait to see these beautiful  creations on display in the  corridor, showing off their skills to the rest of school and visitors.

 This week the children have been pretending to be solid, liquid and gas particles. They learned that the more energy a particle has, the more it will move and spread out. They have learned some new vocabulary such as evaporating and condensing too!
This photograph shows the children being gases!
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It has been a great first full week in Year 4.
We have started our topic, focussing all about what the Romans did for us here in Britain.

This week we have been researching all about the first roads in Britain that were designed and built by the Romans. We made some Roman roads using food ingredients to represent the different layers. We have expanded our vocabularly and can now use words such as 'camber', 'fossa', 'groma' and 'architecti'.

Our first writing genre is reports so next week we are looking forward to using all of this new found information to write a report about Roman Roads. Look out for our finished articles and keep an eye out for our title, subheadings and facts!

In other news, this week was our first music lesson with the ukuleles. It was a great experience for all and the start of our musical journey. The children were introduced to their first chords.

In Numeracy the children have been busy rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 - so feel free to test them! They particularly enjoyed applying their learning into problems. See if you can solve this one....

Two different numbers when rounded round to 20. The sum of both these numbers is 39. What are the two numbers?

Thank you for checking out what we have been doing this week in Fabulous Four! We would love to hear from you.

A new year is on its way and that means a new School Council to drive our school forward and represent the pupil voice in Year 5. 
31 children pitched their ideas to their peers and a democratic vote was taken. Four lucky children were voted for and will represent both Year 5 classes in academic year 2018-19.
The children are: Roxie-Lea, Poppy, Max and Honey.
We wish them lots of luck in their new roles. They will make excellent School council members and will probably continually nag their new teachers in order to get their points across.
​Well done guys. 

Year 4 had a wonderful visit to Whitby to explore the Abbey linked to our liteacy work on Dracula and compare localities. We completed the walk up and down the 199 steps and enjoyed fish and chips on the beach. The weather was sunny and the children really enjoyed their day. 

Today was our final Family Fun Session. In literacy, we have been studying Theseus and the Minotaur as part of our Ancient Greece topic. The children and their parents were given the task to construct a model labyrinth that housed the minotaur. We look forward to the myths and legends they will write at home based on their structure.