Year 4 - Summer 2 - Week 3

Date: 19th Jun 2024 @ 11:53am

A week full of memory making and learning highlights in Year 4!

‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ is one of the most famous fables and we loved revisiting the story this week to think deeper about our understanding of our Collective Worship value, Truthfulness. In RE, we reflected on times when we engage in prayer and the time it gives us to truly reflect and take a minute to ourselves. We discussed the places and times other religions pray, taking a closer look at prayer mats and the symbols we would include on our own mats.

In English, we continue with our story, ‘Blue John’. Before we started reading the new chapter, we explored our new STAR vocabulary, using our dictionaries to define the words and creating a glossary for future reference. We connected our learning with Geography, discovering new terms such as stalagmites and stalactites. Using Hot Seating, we explored the thoughts and feelings on the Queen of Darkness and used fronted adverbials to create sentences about her actions towards Blue John. Our learning then progressed to spotting features in explanation texts and justifying when a new paragraph should be used. 

In Maths, we identified different sizes of angles recognising those that are obtuse, acute and right angles. We compared angle sizes in different shapes before identifying angles as turns.

To kick start our DT project, we conducted some product research with biscuit testing! After analysing the appearance and packaging of different biscuits, it was time to sample their taste and texture. We look forward to designing our own recipes and packaging for our own biscuit designs.

To celebrate National School Sport Week, our Sports Ambassadors devised a plan to set up different sporting activities on the playground for us to enjoy at breaktimes this week. From dodgeball to tennis, we spent our breaktimes playing with friends, developing our skills and enjoying time taking part in team games. We are thrilled to have been given the opportunity to grow in confidence and take part in sports we might not normally play.

The countdown is now on to Sports Day and we are looking forward to inviting our loved ones to come and watch us race next week! Have a great weekend, Year 4.