Using the silent film, 'Soar' (see link below), Y4 made incredible progress with their writing skills! As we watched each expressive nuance, every subtle action, we were able to find our narrative voice to describe what we could see happening. We watched it little...
"I was asked by Mrs Whitelaw to come in and show Year 4 children how to paint using acrylic paints and a palette knife for the very first time. We looked at the artwork of Flordia's Highwaymen Painters for inspiration -...
We have been learning about North American states in geography. In California, the San Andreas Fault causes earthquakes. We wanted to create our own warning system for these. Find out more about the San Andreas Fault by clicking on these links:...
Before we began any of our lessons on wellbeing, we negotiated and established our own 'ground-rules'. In our first wellbeing session we had so much fun! Using the rhythm and personality of a piece of music we gave our observational drawings of Autumn leaves a sense...
In Y4, we have been investigating the angles in triangles. After lots of practice measuring angles with a protractor, measuring lengths of sides of shapes in cm/mm, and using a template to build our own pyramids, we used all of this maths knowledge and skill to make...
To lift the water from the canal the ancient Egyptians used a shaduf. A shaduf is a large pole balanced on a crossbeam, a rope and bucket on one end and a heavy counter weight at the other. By pulling the rope it lowered the bucket into the canal. The farmer then...
We all had 2 sheets of rectangular paper. First we were challenged to make two squares. Then to fold and to cut into triangles. We were then challenged to use these 4 right-angled triangles to make other quadrilaterals - first a parallelogram, then a trapezium......
We have been learning all about Claude Monet, who was one of the main impressionist artists. Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and as a child he showed great talent as an artist. In 1872 he painted a picture of a harbour using very loose brushstrokes. He called the...
In Y4 we have spent many weeks enthralled with the history of Ancient Egypt! Last week, we learned about Howard Carter's incredible discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Using all that knowledge, we composed our own diaries as if we were Howard Carter himself,...