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Magna Trip 2025

We had the best trip on Thursday with the most fantastic behaviour and just super sensible children - wwell done everyone!

We spent the day at Magna, visited all parts of the museum, watched the Big Melt after lunch and then had time in their huge adventure playground. Please see some of the pictures below!

Challenge Homework - South America

A few photos of our challenge homework for this half term....

Stained Glass Windows (RE)

Please take a look at our Easter themed stained glass windows from the end of the unit, they look amazing.

Pompeii Diaries

Over this half term, within English, we have been reading 'Escape from Pompeii' an histroical fiction based on the true events of the explosion of Pompeii in 79AD. The children have worked really hard to plan and draft their work then take this forward to a piece for presentation. Copies have gone home for you to enjoy but here are a sample of a few.

Exciting Electricity

This half term we have explored circuits and electricity in Science. Many have found this a really fun unit with our next DT unit linking to this through making our own torches too.

Wire Sculptures

Working with wire is far more challenging that you'd think! The children worked amazingly - outside to give each other a safe distance - to twist, bend and join wire into different shapes using 2D templates. 

Soap Carving Skills (Art)

The children learned how to carve into a bar of soap to create a 3D item. Many of them chose to make a gift for Mothers Day, thinking of ways to make their item from their 2D designs.

3D Pots (Art)

The children explored the Artist, Magdalene Odundo, who creates 3D sculptures from 2D designs. Her pots and 'vessels' were the inspriation for our own 2D giant art in chalk on the playground.

Roman Challenge Day

Friday was our Roman Challenge Day in school. Thank you for all your efforts at home supporting your child in making their sheilds - one or two were so convincing I thought they were shop bought!

We enjoyed tackling a few Roman Soldier games and drills in the Tortoise and Wedge formations in the hall first off. We then had a Roman feast of bread, olives, grapes and cheese while lounging on the floor as the Romans did. In the afternoon we did a few puzzles, made a Roman Mosaic and took photos in preparation for our English writing work on Wednesday, freeze frames from the book 'Escape from Pompeii'. It was a really enjoyable day.

Water Cycle Challenge Day

We had a really busy morning on Thursday exploring the Water Cycle with our own 'Water Cycle' in a bag, exploring how clouds are made in a jar and creating our own Water Cycle Podcasts.

Please take a look at some of the picutres and the videos below.

D&T Slingshot Cars - From Making to Testing

Year 4 have completed their challenge to make a slingshot car this half term. The children had to learn a variety of skills from accurately measuring and cutting wood and dowels, to joining them into a frame, attaching wheels and finally designing and making their body work. It's been incredibly to watch them deal with challenges, be resilient and to work towards the finished product. On Friday the children tested them out in the hall. The cars need a secured item to hook onto the floor for the car to slingshot off, allowing them to go really quite far with their own momentum. We hope you enjoy the finished products which were sent home with your child on Friday. Well done Year 4!

Cutting and Joining (D&T)

Your child may have shown your their handiwork from Thursday's D&T skills lesson. This half term the children will be making a slingshot car but first we had to practise some of the skills of cutting and joining using the tools. The children did incredibly well learning these new skills. I didn't manage to get pictures of everybody as I was busy supervising and helping but here are just a few.

Merry Christmas from Year 4

The children have recorded their glockenspiel efforts this term with a version of Jingle Bells for you all to share. It shows the culmination of their skills following and reading notes as well as tracking and playing on the glockenspiels as this was achieved in one lesson - they're amazing.

Volcano Challenge Day

 The children all had a great day learning more about Volcanoes and Earthquakes too. We spent part of the morning creating our own model of the Earth with playdough, creating the different layers then cutting the Earth in half and labelling them. Afterwards we then worked in teams to design an Earth Quake proof building using pasta and mini marshmallows. They had to make them at least two floors high and have a mini lego figure too but we found the buildings challenging so some of us just had a go. We then tested the buildings using a shake table, increasing in magnitude each level to see whose survived. You can watch a really interesting video about this too below.

In the afternoon we did our own research into three significant Earthquakes from the past, creating a factfile about the Earthquake and the impact it had. Please take a look through our pictures below.

Christmas Enterprise Jingles

 For our Christmas Enterprise, Year 4 have been learning how to play 'Do you wanna build a snowman?' on the Glockenspiels along with creating our own jingles to persuade others to buy our Christmas products. We will be selling homemade playdough so you can build you own Snowman at home (£2 a bag) and homemade, luxury Christmas biscuits (£1.50 a bag).

The class were split in two halves - one half have written a jingle and designed a persuasive poster to sell the Playdough while the other half are doing theirs around the Christmas biscuits. Please listen to out jingles below!

If you'd like to vote for your favourite groups jingle, the winning team will get a prize each!

Group 1: Kealan, Jayden, Macie, Reed and Lizzie's jingle...

Group 2: William, Hayley, Arthur, Oliver and Alyssa's jingle...

Group 3: Layla, Damon, Alexis, Alveena and Izamaria's jingle...

Group 4: Harley, Henry, Max, Eva and Logan's jingle...

Group 5: Bella, Georgia, Sienna, Lara and Archie's jingle...

Group 6: Jayceon, Louie, Amber and Oscars jingle...

Volcanoes Challenge Homework

Egyptian Theme Day

Year 4 has had a fabulous day off timetable. We started the day with a look at how the Pyramids were built, looking at the different theories behind this. We then went in to the Computer suite to explore inside the Great Pyramid of Giza and a few other amazing sights. To explore these more at home follow this link.

We had fun skipping like Egyptians although we had to adjust our costumes to allow for this! We tackled a few Maths puzzles to escape the pyramids - answers can be found in the gallery for those still puzzling these out. Afterwards we wrote our own names in a heiroglyphic cartouche. Using enlarged pictures we spent the afternoon making our own Egyptian portraits - these can be found on our walls in the classroom, look out for them the next time you visit Koala's classroom.

We finished the day with a mummification race - the first team to run out of bandages was the winner! It was a really fun day, I hope the children enjoyed it too.

Please take a look at some of the photos below. 

Here are some of Learning Challenge responses to the Egyptian themed homework. So much variety and creativity from the Year 4's - well done to all of you!

Please take a look at the film the Year 4 children put together a few weeks back with Adam Pepper - it's amazing!

A few pictures of us learning the Glockenspeils this term.

Star Art work based on our class text, 'How the Stars Came to be'. These lovely stars are now on display in the hall, please take a look.