Year 4

Welcome to Year 4!

Our teachers this year are: Mrs Towler and Mrs Harris

Shaping Up

Your body is the most valuable thing you will ever own. It’s your job to keep your body fit and healthy because it has to last you a lifetime! We are going to find out how best you can do that.

 

Our Knowledge Harvest

Our Entry Point: Fitness Challenge

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Gateways To The World

Everyday millions of people take to the skies, making journeys in aeroplanes. Air travel helps to connect people around the world.

Our Exit Point: Our Dream Catcher workshop.

Our Journey

Our Entry Point: Packing pandemonium and Departure dash.

Knowledge Harvest: What happens in an airport? Where have you been in the world?

The Nature Of Life

From frogspawn to frogs, from caterpillars to butterflies and from seeds to plants, all living things grow and change, feed and reproduce. But how does life begin for living things and what effect does the environment have?

Our Entry Point: An environmental treasure hunt.

Material World

 

Hundreds of different materials are used to make everyday objects. Some materials occur naturally, e.g. wood from trees while others are manmade in factories, e.g. plastic. Some materials are magnetic; some allow heat and electricity to pass through them. But with so many different materials to choose from, how do we decide which to use?
Hundreds of different materials are used to make everyday objects. Some materials occur naturally, e.g. wood from trees while others are manmade in factories, e.g. plastic. Some materials are magnetic; some allow heat and electricity to pass through them. But with so many different materials to choose from, how do we decide which to use?

Entry Point: We made our own sculptures from nature after studying the style of the environmental artist, Andy Goldsworthy.

Our Knowledge Harvest.

Making electric circuits.

Our Exit Point: The Milk Carton Challenge

 

 

Turn it up!

Entry Point: We made our own accompaniment to the 'Heinz Can Song'

We listened to 'Imagine' by John Lennon and produced a piece of artwork.

 

It's all about vibrations!

What about shadows?

 

 

 

 

Autumn Term

 

Scavengers And Settlers

 

Working with John from Historical Interpretations

How did Otzi die?

Our entry point

We pretended to be a Stone Age tribe searching for food to survive.

Turn it up! Our Exit point: A Bamboo Tamboo workshop

Turn it up! Evie And Alex's Can Song

Brainwave

We found out how our brain works.