Welcome to Year 4!

This week so far: 

English: This week we have begun thinking about our next write for pleasure extended write. Students will choose their own animal to write an information text about. We have started this new sequence of lessons by analysing an existing information text on penguins. We have considered the significance of subheadings and chosen relevant sub headings for our own writing. We then chose which animal we would like to write about and  thought of questions we would like to answer within our information text within those subheadings. 

Maths: This week we have recapped our knowledge of comparing amounts of money and also estimating money. We then looked at converting between different units of time and also converting between analogue and digital times in a 12 and 24-hour clock.

Science: This week looked at conductors and insulators. The students were asked to create a simple circuit to test if materials are conductors or insulators.  They were given a selection of different items to test recorded their predictions before testing out their theory.

Computing: This week completed our computing topic. We looked at various devices and established if they were input or output devices. We then looked at what makes up a computer network and walked around the school to establish where we could find the various different components. We also looked at how the internet can be used to circulate false information and different ways we can keep ourselves safe whilst online.

RE: This week we have explored how symbols and colours are used within stain glass windows. We then thought again about the nativity story and what symbols we would use to represent this. We finished our lesson by designing our own stain glass window to represent the nativity story.

PE: This term in PE we are doing gymnastics.