Year 4 – Gold and Saffron
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 …
Sep 20 2024
The highlight of this week was investigating what happened to cornflour when water was added as part of our continuing work on states of matter. We all loved playing with the oobleck and were fascinated by the fact that by applying a lot of force the mixture behaves like a solid, but when we let …
Sep 13 2024
This week we have been preparing to write a letter to describe an Ancient Egyptian artefact. We have extended our vocabulary using adjectives and prepositions in order to write extended noun phrases. In maths, we have represented numbers beyond 1000 in different ways and compared the size of different numbers. We have been working on …
Sep 06 2024
What an amazing first week we have had back! We are so proud of Year 4 who have settled into life back at school brilliantly and have been learning their new routines. We have talked a lot about our school values and written our own class expectations. We started the week with some fantastic team challenges …
