March in Year 4

What a busy month Year 4 have had. From dressing up for World Book Day, becoming rock stars for our TT Rock Stars day and wearing red for Comic Relief it seems our uniforms have not had a huge amount of wear! All of these exciting activities while still learning about fractions, play scripts and states of matter to name a few.

World Book Day 

Although we had celebrated our love of books and reading in the Autumn Term with our book week, we couldn't see the official World Book Day go past without celebrating again! On Thursday 7th March we all dressed up as something connected to books and enjoyed sharing our outfits and creating story cubes and short stories using these with our CJS families in the afternoon.

Play Scripts

While dressed up for World Book Day, we were lucky enough to have one of our parents, who is an actor, join us to run a workshop. This aimed to help the children understand more about how a play script is used to produce a performance and direct actors, supporting them to write their own play script based on a Horrid Henry story.

International Women's Day

On Friday 8th we marked International Women's day by researching and creating a poster about Grace Hopper in each class. She was a computer scientist and mathematician, who was involved in developing  a computer programming language still used today.

Science Day and Comic Relief

Friday 15th had us all celebrating the wonders of science with our science day while dressed in red to raise money for Comic Relief. The theme for this year's science day was time and Year Four were able to participate in a workshop looking at a timeline of different electrical inventions and used themselves to create a circuit diagram. They also found out about some endangered animals, including some which we had never heard of such as the Humphead Wrasse which could reach 180cm long! We also carried out an investigation to find out how the length of a pendulum affects the number of swings it does in a minute.

TT Rock Stars Day

Year Four have been busy all year working on their Times Tables knowledge ready for the National Multiplication Tests all year four children now take in the summer term. The Year Four area was turned into a disco and everyone dressed as rock stars and spent the day participating in lots of fun times tables activities to allow them to see how far they have come in their journey to Times Table Rock Heroes. Some parents were able to join us and get tested themselves by their children, sorry parents! Everyone looked amazing and showed why they should be so proud of themselves for their hard work.

Belfast Bonus Day

4CHe learnt a bit more about St Patrick's day as part of their Belfast bonus day and made their own shamrocks, which looked amazing!

After such a busy month the children now have a well deserved Easter break. We hope you all enjoy the holiday and come back ready to see what April will bring.