Year 4's new book this half-term is the wonderful "Boy at the back of the class" by Onjali Q. Rauf.  Already the children have written pieces of work about the characters in the story, a diary entry as a character and questions that they want to know the answers to, such as...

Year 4 are continuing to make great progress in learning their times tables and the picture shows a selection of TTRS papers the children have completed.  We enjoy listening to music as we rock out and try to answer 60 questions in three minutes - that's 3 seconds per question!  Mr...

This week, the children in Year 4 have undertaken a sound survey around the school.  They are learning about sound in Science, so they have taken sound level recordings to see which part of the school are quiet and loud.  By using Microbits (devices often used in our Computing lessons) the...

In the last week before the Easter holiday, the children in Year 4 finished their science topic about Forces, with one last experiment: - to see how water resistance affects an object. The children made cubes, spheres and cones out of PlayDough and dropped them into a cylinder of water and timed...

Every day, the children in Year 4 have time for reading for pleasure after lunch. On St Joseph’s Day, (Wednesday) we were able to take advantage of the nice weather and sit in the St Francis of Assisi garden with our books and share some time in the sunshine. It was lovely to be outside and we...

This half-term in Science the children in Year 4 are learning about forces. This week they investigated how levers work and proved that you can lift a heavy weight without much effort! Using a lever and a Newton meter to measure the effort (force), they showed that a 1kg weight can be lifted using o...