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Year 4 Weekly News

Weekly update of activities in Year 4

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  • 13/02/25

    Friday 14th February 2025

    This half-term in Computing, the children in Year 4 have been using a music app called Isle of Tune to create beats, rhythms and melodies. The tune is played when a car moves along a road, and it passes different icons, such as trees, houses and lamp posts. The children have been really creative!
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  • 07/02/25

    Friday 7th February 2025

    Continuing with their learning in History, the children had to find clues in the Forest School. Once they found the clue, they needed to piece together the information sheet. They discovered many important dates to add to our timeline on our window. 1533 was a very busy year for Henry VIII!
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  • 31/01/25

    Friday 31st January 2025

    Year 4 are doing gymnastics for indoor PE (much nicer in this cold weather!) and the children have been creating their own sequences in partners. These included balances, bridges, rolls and turns and different ways of moving around the apparatus. All the children have also remembered to include...
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  • 23/01/25

    Friday 24th January 2025

    In History this term, the children in Year 4 are learning about Henry VIII and the Reformation. At the moment, we have heard why he wanted to “break away from Rome” - that is, to move away from the Catholic Church and the Pope, and start the Church of England. The class learnt that He...
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  • 17/01/25

    Friday 17th January 2025

    This week in our Science lesson, the children in Year 4 were learning about the digestive system. They cut out pictures of the organs that the body uses in the digestion process, and glued them in the right place on a template of the body. In the pictures, it looks like we’ve got some new memb...
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  • 09/01/25

    Friday 10th January 2025

    On Thursday 9th January Year 4 completed a bike workshop learning how to fix a bike. This was a fantastic workshop, teaching them how to change a tyre, fix a puncture and how to complete the ABC safety check on their bike before they start to ride. They also planned their bike routes!
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  • 19/12/24

    Friday 20th December 2024

    Year 4 have been getting ready for Christmas and making the classroom look Christmassy. They created a wonderfully picture with Mrs Bird, each colouring in one section at a time, then putting it all together to make one big picture on the window. The postbox for Christmas cards is filling up and the...
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  • 12/12/24

    Friday 13th December 2024

    Last Friday, 6th December, in preparation for our Advent celebrations, Year 4 visited St George’s Cathedral in Southwark to attend their Advent Mass. We joined many other schools from across south London boroughs in singing carols and telling the story of the Nativity. As always, the children...
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  • 27/11/24

    Friday 29th November 2024

    On Tuesday Year 3 and 4 enjoyed a special showing of the film Migration at the O2 Cinema. We arrived at the O2 just in time to pick the best seats and although the film lasted over an hour and a half it was so entertaining the time just flew by. Everybody really enjoyed the film! We were very lucky...
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  • 22/11/24

    Friday 22nd November 2024

    On Monday this week, Year 4 spent the whole day with Ian, John and Triby from Arty Party, creating lanterns in preparation for the parade around Greenwich on Wednesday.  It was a great day making three huge lanterns - two polar bears and the Snow Queen from The Lion, the Witch and the Ward...
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  • 14/11/24

    Friday 15th November 2024

    This week Year 4 have been writing diary entries.  We thought carefully about the features to include, for example, time conjunctions, informal language and writing in the first person.  We linked this with our class book ‘The One and Only Ivan’ by Katherine Applegate.  Th...
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  • 08/11/24

    8th November 2024

    The children in Year 4 have now started reading their new text for this half-term - The One and Only Ivan. It’s a based on a true story about a gorilla who lived in a shopping mall in the USA. So far, the children have been very descriptive in detailing the domain in which he lives. The cla...
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