Year 4
Year 3 and 4 computing sessions
Years 3 and 4 shared a computer session for an afternoon where the year 4 children showed year 3 skills they would need in KS2. The year 3 children soon picked up the skills and surprised the year 4 children with their confidence.
Paper challenges
Year 4 were set two paper challenges in their first weeks.
Their first challenge involved folding a piece of A4 paper into a circle. Many children used different methods to create their circles, their perseverance was amazing.
The following day the children were split into groups, given 3 sheets of A4 paper, two pairs of scissors and a glue stick and asked to make the longest paper chain they could. The classroom was filled with laughter and then fierce competition kicked in. The longest chain measured 6m 23cms!
Olympic Event at Newton Abbot College
National Writing Day
The children in Years 1 and 4 came together to celebrate characters. The children began to think about characters from their favourite books and what traits they have. The two classes began to outline their character’s features and to draw them. They then added details of their character’s place in a story, some speech and most importantly colour!
The children then began to share their work with both classes.
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Colour Mixing Workshop
Year 4 enjoyed a morning with Cara who visited and treated the children to a Helen Foundation supported workshop facilitated by Daisi. The children learned how to mix colours and the effects these colours can have. The class then used their work on Fairy Tales to explore an image from ‘The Little Mermaid’. This allowed the children to understand how to express the sea using different colours and effects.
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Torbay Music Festival
KS2 Handball Festival
National Story Telling Week
Years 3 and 4 have spent this week sharing their story telling skills, and learning new ones! The week began with the children gathering together to listen to a virtual talk from an author. The classes then split into groups to share their reading books.
On Thursday the children gathered together to gain skills in re-telling the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Year 4 taught year 3 the story through signing, the classes could then choose to share the story through signing, painting, story mapping or through body percussion!
Handball workshop and game
Year 4 joined year 3 for a skills workshop and handball game. The children brushed up on their skills of dribbling, passing and catching before taking part in a game with year 3.
Using DT skills to make waving hands
Linkages and Levers are part of year 4’s design technology learning, the children spent time understanding how to use their skills to make things move with an input. The class created a mini moving part, a waving hand, as a prototype for their eventual project of making a moving poster.