Year 4
Miss HoweWelcome to Year 4
Fantastic Flexible Partitioning
Today, Year 4 have been working on their flexible partitioning of 4-digit numbers. We used our place value counters to create our numbers, then split them into different parts. We realised that we could not just partition into the thousands, hundreds, tens and ones,...
Magnificent River Models!
Today, Year 4 looked in more detail about where the water that makes a river comes from, how does that water turn into a river and where does it go at the end? They learned about the three courses of a river and sorted the features of each course. They then worked in...
Exciting Egyptians
Today, Year 4 had a fantastic day of fun and learning with Richard, ‘ That History Bloke’! We learnt all about how to greet each other in Ancient Egyptian, all about the role of the Pharaoh and what each part of their clothes symbolised. We learnt all about the...
Wonderful Water Cycle
In Geography this term, Year 4 are learning all about rivers and how they are used. To begin with, they looked at the water cycle to think about how water gets to a river and where it goes. They drew their own versions of the water cycle and were able to explain some...
Fantastic Food chains! 🌱➡️🐛➡️🐤➡️🦉
Today, Year 4 have been investigating food chains. We looked at lots of plants and animals and created food chains. We noticed how all of the food chains started with a plant or ‘producer’ and then a series of animals, starting with herbivores then carnivores and...
Amazing Amazon Animals!
Year 4 have worked very hard to research, write and present information about their chosen animal from the Amazon rainforest.They made sure to make their reports interesting, informative and engaging with lots of facts, description and alliteration.
Creative Crumbles!
Year 4 have had a fantastic day today making their own seasonal fruit crumbles!They tasted fruits and toppings, then planned their recipes. Then they made their crumbles- they particularly enjoyed mixing up the crumble toppings and getting messy hands! After a short...
A Day of Cricket!
Yesterday some children from years 3 and 4 took part in Countdown Cricket organised by the Gateshead school sports partnership. There were many schools taking part at Gateshead Fell’s Cricket Club and the children did us proud. Although we didn’t get the win we...
Painted Portraits
Year 4 have today finished their classmate portraits in the style of Sonia Delaunay.They added their colourful, floral backgrounds and final details. They’ve all done a wonderful job!
Athletics Festival 2023
We had a great time on Friday at the Gateshead Athletics Festival. 49 schools from across Gateshead came to compete at the stadium. There were events such as sprint, hurdles, relay races and long jump. It was a very long day but the children competing persevered and...
Powerful Paragraphs
This morning, Year 4 worked on their paragraph structuring. They have researched lots of different facts on their chosen Amazonian animals, but needed to check they had enough to produce strong paragraphs. They created ‘paragraph tables’ to check the strength of their...
Competitive coordinates!
Year 4 have been learning about coordinates in maths. Today, we used our knowledge to create our own grids and played a coordinates version of 3-in-a-row. We rolled two dice, one was our x-coordinate and the other our y. We had to plot our point with a cross and...