Entries by Claire Hoadley

Welcome back to Spring 2

Welcome back to school, we hope you all had an enjoyable half term break. This half-term our topic will be ‘Here Come the Vikings’. We will learning all about how the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons invaded and settled in the UK. We will be writing a newspaper report and a narrative. In Maths, we will be […]

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Bikeability

This week, Year 4 have been practising their cycling skills and earning certificates in their Bikeability lessons!

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Coding in Computing lessons

This term, Year 4 are practising their programming skills using Logo. We practised inputting basic commands to make an onscreen turtle move, then we moved onto inputting a longer string of instructions to make shapes and digits.  

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Multiplication in Year 4

This week, Year 4 have begun to learn how to multiply using the written column method. We used 10s and 1s place value counters to represent the calculation visually, then we used this to multiply the numbers in a formal method.  

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Happy New Year and welcome back for the Spring Term!

Welcome back to school everyone, we hope you have had an enjoyable break. This half term, Year 4 will be learning about the United Kingdom. We will be looking at the geography of the UK and will be writing our own travel guides. This term we will also be visiting a Buddhist centre for an […]

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Year 4’s Christmas Doors!

As we are preparing for the festive season, we wanted to share with you our classroom doors decorated for Christmas! Hubble class have created Christmas elves and Pioneer have made a reef from their handprints.  

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Learning about sound in Science!

In our last two Science lessons, Year 4 have been learning about how sound is produced by vibrations. We have carried out some simple investigations to see and feel sound vibrations. We also looked at how to change the speed of vibrations and explored how this effects the frequency of a sound. The investigations we […]

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