Year Four Roman Museum

We were really pleased to welcome all of our parents to the Year Four Roman Museum on 18th March. After a lot of research and detailed work, we recreated Roman artefacts to show aspects of life in Roman Britain.

Verulamium Mosaics

After looking at the mosaics in the museum at Verulamium, Year Four created some of their own using small tesserae just as the Romans did.

Roman oil lamps

Everyone in 4AW made an oil lamp this afternoon after creating their own design based on historical research. They are now drying and will be fired in the school kiln. We are really looking forward to welcoming parents to our oil lamp workshops next week.

The Lion King

On Wednesday 27th January 2016, the Year 4 children watched the stunning Lion King show at the Lyceum Theatre in London. It was a fantastic day and the children thoroughly enjoyed the show. The following day, the children in 4MR wrote a diary entry of their day. The children loved writing their diary entries and it was clear to see the children will remember the show for a very long time.

Roman invasion Friday 8th January

Year Four had an amazing day on Friday learning all about the Roman invasion of AD43. The children, all dressed as Roman citizens, welcomed a visitor who told us about life in Britain as the Romans arrived, as well as what it was like to be a soldier in the Roman army. We marched to latin instructions, dressed in Roman armour and helmets and experienced what it may have been like to be at a Roman slave auction. Thank you to all of our parents for their support with costumes for the children. There will be another opportunity to wear the costumes when we open our Roman Museum later this term.

Hour of code

Year Four have really enjoyed taking part in the 'Hour of Code' over the last two weeks. The children were challenged to write code using both Scratch and Python and were very successful. Everyone who completed all fifteen challenges was awarded a special certificate.

If you want to try the challenges again at home they can be found on https://code.org/starwars

The Year Four Team

Weaving with the Celts

As part of our history topic on the Celts all of the children in Year Four have had the opportunity to try weaving on a simple loom. We made some very colourful woolen fabrics using traditional techniques.