Blog Author: Julia Hall

We had a fantastic day yesterday!

We began with a range of activities, we printed superhero logos and comic book onomatopoeia.

We also wrote our own playscripts and programmed a superhero script on scratch.

After play we went into the hall and did a Super circuit training session…

After practising for our production this morning we set each other a challenge.  We wrote a question that included a fraction on one side of our whiteboard. On the other side we wrote the answer, we found a partner and asked them our question.  If they got the answer right we swapped boards. This…

In maths today we have been practising our problem solving skills. We worked in teams to find the answers to some very difficult problems! We then chose one problem to explain to the class how we solved it.

This week we are learning about bar charts, pictograms, histograms and line graphs.

We have been interpreting data and representing data using various graphs and charts.

Miss Moss has set us a challenge this week to create a bar chart with real data.

Today we have been talking about electrical power sources. In our groups we sorted a selection of images into three categories,

• Battery
• Mains
• Battery and Main

We looked at each other's work and discussed the similarities and differences.

We then discussed the dangers of…

This week the blog of the week is composed by Luke...

This week in numeracy we've been learning how to tell the time. In our books we wrote in 12 hour time and 24 hours .  In literacy we've been looking at narrative writing. Today in maths we wrote the time in words and in 12 hour clock .…

This week we have been looking at descriptive writing.  We have deconstructed texts by looking at how the author used all of their senses to describe what the character could see, hear, smell, touch and how they were feeling.

Today we went outside and chose a spot in the playground. We…

To begin our topic about electricity most of year 4 have created learning logs. Today we have looked at each other's learning logs and commented on what aspect we think is really good and how we think they could be improved. 

Learning logs are a very good way of showing what we already…

This week the blog of the week is written by Amelia.

This week we learnt about coordinates and where to put them on a grid. We also learnt about apostrophes where to put them and when to use them. We learnt about translation on a grid .This means that you have to slide them to a new…

Today we have been using Scratch Junior on the iPads to use coding to create a scene with two characters having a conversation.

We needed to think carefully about the timings and check our programming constantly to debug any coding.

Each week a child in Year 4 will compose a blog entry about our work during the week.  This week the blog entry comes from Olivia.

This week we have been doing perimeter and area in numeracy and in literacy we have been doing about information text about our superheroes. In topic we have been…

This afternoon we have had our class council session. We use this time to discuss as a class any issues put forward anonymously.