Year Four Blog

The spelling rule for this week is based upon compound nouns.

We have learned that they can be written in different ways. This week’s list follows the joined (or closed) format.

This week’s words are: silly, football, cloakroom, breakfast, playground, fingerprint, skyscraper, sunlight,…

The spelling rule for this week is based upon double consonants.

We have learned that double consonants are often found after short vowels, in adjectives, animal names and verbs.

This week’s words are: silly, common, follow, funny, getting, carrot, comma, scuffle, sudden and…

This morning, the Year 4 children had the pleasure of making tasty pizzas for our lunch. We had help from Alex Cook who is the owner of The Mill and Il Mulino in Stokesley. We made pizzas as part of our maths topic which is fractions. We took part in a fractions pizza quiz to end our pizza making…

A huge thank you to all of the Year 4/5’s who were such fantastic helpers to the Year One class.  The Year Ones were trying to raise money to help protect coral reefs and the year 4/5’s did an amazing job of helping them to make and sell their sea creature biscuits.  They also helped to make a…

Today, the Y4 children went to play dodgeball at the Secondary School with other local primary schools in the area. We had so much fun playing and developing our dodgeball skills. 

This week in Science Week for Year 4 and 5. This afternoon we did some scientific play to help us explain how sounds are made and how we hear things. 

What a fantastic sporting afternoon we have had!

The children have taken part in sports to promote being active while having fun. Some children went to the secondary school to take part in 'exercise for fun' activities while others developed their hockey skills ready for a tournament in the…

Using our success criteria, we tested and evaluated our ancient Egyptian shaduf models  We're all really proud of our finished products.

This morning, we had some visitors from Simon Carson Sports School. We enjoyed taking part in a range of activities, such as archery, dance and 'the game of actual life'. We would like to thank them for organising such a fun morning of activities. 

Today, we started building our ancient Egyptian shadufs. We discussed the importance of safety when using the equipment, before working collaboratively to get our models underway. We are really enjoying the project so far!

This week, we have enjoyed making prototypes and designing shaduf models. We can't wait to start making them next week! 

We used hieroglyphics to write spells for 'the Book of the Dead'. Like the ancient Egyptians, we drew pictures of the deceased on their journey to the afterlife.