Year 4 – Gold and Saffron
Dec 13 2024
This week started off with a DT extravaganza. We were knee deep in cardboard, cellophane, double sided sticky tape and electrical components but the children worked really hard and all of them managed to make a working light. We had lots of different designs including flowers, footballs and shells as well as lights for different …
Dec 06 2024
This week we have been working on creating a character description for a goblin, who we met through the poem ‘Overheard on a Saltmarsh’ by Harold Monro. He is a particularly gruesome, putrid character with fetid breath and blood-shot eyes! These are some of the words we have been using to describe this vile creature. …
Nov 29 2024
This week Saffron had some very exciting news! All the children in years 4, 5 and 6 recently took part in a competition to redesign Victoria Street. Out of all the children in St Albans who took part, a group of children in Saffron class were awarded first place by the Mayor. Congratulations to Sophia, …
Nov 22 2024
This week we have been experimenting with electrical circuits. We have used different electrical components to build and test different combinations to see if they made complete circuits. We have also been considering useful features of lanterns and lights and using this information to design our own small light. We had to consider who the …
Nov 15 2024
This week we became town/city planners with some visitors from Hertfordshire County Council asking us to help think of ideas in order to regenerate Victoria Street in St Albans. The problem is that Victoria Street is not currently a very attractive street in St Albans and does not give the best impression of the city …
Nov 08 2024
Welcome back! We hope you had a very enjoyable half term. We started this week looking at our new book Journey by Aaron Becker. This is an illustrated story following a girl on a journey with her magic pen. We have been retelling the story using story maps and analysing our model text finding useful …
Oct 25 2024
The highlight of this week was our Ancient Egyptian Day on Monday. We were visited by Ani an Ancient Egyptian scribe who showed us how to mummify a body in order to prepare it and it’s soul for the journey to the afterlife. We also wrote a message in hieroglyphs, using ink and bamboo pens …
Oct 18 2024
Year 4 have now finished their suspense stories about the magnificent discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, describing the footsteps taken by Howard Carter in 1922. They have been using various techniques to build suspense including short sentences, show not tell and have ended on a cliffhanger. They have worked really hard with their stories, adding strong …
Oct 04 2024
This week we have been practising some techniques to add to our suspense stories. We particularly like ‘show not tell’ which is when we don’t tell the reader exactly what emotion a character may be feeling but show them through their actions. For example: ‘When he finally saw the tomb, his eyes lit up and …
Sep 27 2024
Bonjour! Ola! Ciao! Privet! Namaste! Hello! Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed our Languages Day yesterday and all looked so colourful in the colours of so many different flags. We had a great time choosing landmarks from around the world of places we have visited or our families have originated. We then created silhouettes of each landmark …