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Year 4
Welcome to Year 4!
Mrs Stokes/ Miss Lamerton (Flamingos) and Mrs Day (Parrots) will keep you up to date with the children's learning on this page of our website.
Please click on the stars below to find out more.
Contact the Year 4 Team
year.4@newlandsprimary.co.uk
Charlotte's Web
Year 4 have started their music lessons! With an exciting new programme to follow, the children will be learning all about ABBA and learning to play 'Mamma Mia!' on their own glockenspiels! Watch this space for our performance videos...
Belonging Week
We baked a delicious apple cake, using the apples from our school site!
We held throphy competitions to decide the table trophy for the year!
We learned about our class animals and made some environments suited to them and their needs
Look what Yr 4 did last year:
We enjoyed taking part in MusicFest!
We have been busy thinking about wishes and even got to make a special wish in a wishing well today!
More photos of the wishing well...
We loved getting to celebrate Global Day! We talked about refugees and planned what we would give them in a welcome pack. We got to taste food from around the world linking to our 'Magical Planet Earth' topic. We also had a visit from Lesley and Nuria from Southampton and Winchester Visitor's Group (SWVG) who help and support local refugees. What a day!
Global day food tasting!
We have enjoyed re-capping our Geography knowledge by learning about the oceans and continents on Magical Planet Earth!
We enjoyed a careers workshop with IntoUniversity!
We have been learning about teeth in Science! We have enjoyed playing a game to help us understand how to keep our teeth healthy.We also have conducted an "EGGS-periment" to see how different liquids affect our tooth enamel!
We enjoyed a visit from Southampton City Mission as part of our R.E learning about Paschal Candles with they key concept of darkness and light.
As part of National Sign Language Week, we took part in a BSL online lesson! We learnt how to fingerspell, say our names, some useful phrases and colours!
Fingerspelling our names!
Fingerspelling our names!
Parrots went to the sustainability centre to learn about Anglo-Saxons!
We LOVED dressing up for World Book Day! Our outfits looked incredible!
We enjoyed a visit from one of our Governors! She came in to talk to the children about her job and how she reads and writes non-fiction texts!
We enjoyed having time to share a non-fiction book with our adults this afternoon. Thank you to all of those parents/carers that came!
Flamingos enjoyed their trip to The Sustainability Centre in Petersfield. We got to show off our current knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons and learnt lots of new facts! We got to see REAL artefacts, explore a replica longhouse and even met an Anglo-Saxon!
We have enjoyed "Safer internet day" today! We have been learning about how to be safe online from scams and have been learning about 'phishing' which has nothing to do with fishing!
Flamingos have loved their four sessions with Bal from the Mental Health in Schools Team. We have been learning all about emotions, flipping our lid and strategies to cope with big emotions!
We enjoyed working as a team in RSHE! We had the challenge of creating the funniest potato person and had to work together to design them and give them a name and personality!
Year 4 LOVED having Kate from Southampton Art Gallery in school for a workshop today. We got to have a go at printing using three colours inspired by a real piece of art she brought from the gallery!
We have loved making our own pop-up books in D.T this half-term!
We walked as Ancient Egyptians for the day! We looked AMAZING in our outfits!!!!
We loved getting to perform to our parents and adults! We got to show off our learning from Showcase Music and performed different songs on our instruments!
We enjoyed a workshop with Mrs Weaver from Owls (The Resource Base for the Deaf). She talked to us about the parts of the ear and how we are able to hear sound! We learnt lots of new vocabulary and even some fun facts about the bones in our ear!
We enjoyed a visit from Andy who works at SeaCity Museum in Southampton! He came in to talk to us about all things Ancient Egypt. He told us stories, some interesting facts and showed us some artefacts! He even demonstrated the process of mummification by mummifying an orange!
Year 4 have had some strange encounters this week! First a mysterious box with a message from Howard Carter and then today when they went exploring they found an Ancient Egyptian burial chamber!
Our amazing hand puppets we created in D.T inspired by Charlotte's Web!
Dress up day in court
We had a go at becoming Templeton and having to search for a word to go on Charlotte's Web! The children had to look at scraps of newspaper and find some convincing words to help save Wilbur's life!
After some strange sightings of webs and words this week, we created news reports live from Mr Zuckerman's farm to explain what had happened!
Year 4 found a web...
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