Well done Year 4

On Thursday the children completed the front pages of their rainforest newspapers on time. They had all been allocated jobs - editors, reporters or photographers. Some of the published stories were only short snippets due to lack of space on the paper (and size of handwriting). They certainly used their communication skills to do this!

Rainforest Newspaper

The children are making the front page of a rainforest newspaper. They decided on the name of the paper and the typeface to be used for it. Each group of children played the part of a different type of rainforest worker. They the interviewed each other as if they were a reporter, asking how the logging would affect the forest. This will be written up as a front page story with photos of themselves as the native workers. They are using communication skills, ICT skills and thinking skills to do this.

Sampling Invertebrates In The Nature Garden

Year 4 have been developing their enquiry skills today.We are carrying out a survey to count and observe invertebrates in the nature garden.We will use pitfalls to count and observe the invertebrates.We will measure and observe the species in our nature garden and we will look at the influence of light and water in where they are found.We will use thinking ,communication and number skills.

Don't Spoil Our World!

The children took a walk locally to pin point the areas that need cleaning up if we are to look after our world.
In R.E. they are discussing how we are all responsible for it's care. To do this the children use Thinking skills, ICT and Communication skills.

Rainforest jewellery

The children practised their skills in preparation for making their own Rainforest jewellery. They learned how to plait, and made designs in their sketchbooks. This involved using ICT and Communication skills.

The Art Club visit Giles Gallery

The Art Club visited Giles Gallery to look at the work of local artists. They were all particularly impressed with many of the abstract pieces of work.

P.S.E. in Year 4

Year 4 have been exploring friendship in P.S.E. today. We had to identify the characteristics of a good friend with our taking partner.Then we teamed up with our group to snowball our ideas.Finally we had to rank our characteristics using the diamond nine.We came up with some wonderful ideas and we believe that to be a good friend you should be:
honest
kind
caring
loyal
reliable
thoughtful
sensible
cheerful
non- judgemental
We used thinking and communication skills.

Music in Year 4

Year 4 have been having lots of fun making music today! We listened to the Christmas calypso then we had to compose a rhythmic accompaniment using untuned percussion. We used thinking skills and wider communication skills.

Circuit training in the yard.

For our Health and Fitness programme of work this term, the children took part in our own circuit training. This involved a series of aerobic exercises, moving from task to task for a limited time, and recording their performance. Can they beat this next time? This involved using number skills to keep count, and communication skills.