Year 4 – Gold and Saffron
Jan 31 2025
This week’s highlight was a visit from Mr Crick who brought in a Van de Graaff generator to show us how electricity works. We learnt that protons and electrons don’t like each other and repel away. We were able to watch lightning as electrons try to escape to earth as quickly as possible! We also …
Jan 24 2025
This week we have finished our emotive poems in English. Year 4 have worked really hard to try and choose the best vocabulary to show emotion as well as using figurative language such as personification, similes and metaphors to show the plight of the animals in the zoo. Some people have added other poetic devices …
Jan 17 2025
This week we have been experimenting with sound… by making lots of it! We learnt that sound is a vibration and this was made visible by tapping a tuning fork and placing it in water, so we could see the vibrations. We noticed how sounds are made on drums, using rainsticks, chime bars and triangles …
Jan 10 2025
Welcome Back and Happy New Year! We have a busy term planned ahead with lots of exciting new topics. We have started this week with our new sounds topic in Science, thinking about what sounds are around us all the time and how they are created through vibrations. We listened to sounds inside and outside …
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 …
