With Christ at our side to guide us,
we shine in all that we do.
In Art, the children have been learning about Gustav Klimt and studied some of his pieces.
The children used the ideas of Klimt’s intricate detail and use of ‘Zentangles’ and re-created one of the patterns from the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. They then created a relief by making this pattern 3D by using rice.
Next the children will embellish their patterns using foil to replicate the metallic look used in Klimt’s work.
(More pictures to follow with finished pieces)
The children used pots with a magnifying glass to look closely at the different creatures and followed a classification key to identify what type of invertebrate it was. We discovered the best place to find a range of habitats and creatures was on the school field next to the trim trail. The children had a great time exploring and managed to find a broad range of invertebrates on their hunt. 
Parents of Year 4 children.
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Mrs Davis
Year 4 Teacher
As part of our History topic of the Ancient Greeks, year 4 have been looking at Greek art and their use of mosaics.
They have looked at how mosaics were made and the intricate detail that went into them.
The children then created their own mosaic designs on paper either copying an idea from the Greek mosaics we looked at or creating their own pattern or picture.
Children will build on these skills to create their own mosaics in a few weeks.
We even enjoyed listening to some traditional Greek music while working!
Click on first photograph to see a short video!
To start our new Science topic ‘States of Matter’, the children were given pictures of various items and worked in groups to ‘sort’ the pictures.
I didn’t tell the children how they needed to be sorted as it gave them the opportunity to discuss and come up with their own sorting criteria.
The children worked well in their groups and the scientific conversations that I overheard were fantastic.
Afterwards, I introduced our topic and the children then had to re-sort their pictures.
We discussed the differences between the three states of matter and discussed the properties of each.
The children in Year 4 enjoyed a busy day at Open-Zone at The Word on Friday.
They enjoyed time on the laptops in the morning using Scratch programme to create shapes and in the afternoon, they used Lego and the I ‘pads to build a robot and programme the instructions to make the robot move.
In English, the children have been learning the features of and writing a range of poems including: haiku poems and cinquain poems.
Today the children learnt about the features of limericks and had a go at writing their own.
They worked in pairs and used an online rhyming dictionary on the i’pads to help them find rhyming words then had good fun writing their own limerick poems.
There was lots of laughter in the class as the children worked….A great, fun lesson!
Here are a few of their poems:
There was a small child named Bea
Who liked to play ball in the sea
She played with the cat
She’d jump, run and splat
And she always got things for free!
There once was a boy names Jeff
Who liked to play chess with the chef
Who liked to eat all the food
When he was in a good mood
But then he sadly turned deaf!
There was once a Minion called Bob
Who really cared about his job
He frightened his fish
That lived in a dish
Then ran and turned into a blob!
There was a boy names Mark
Who liked to be in the dark
He liked to play ball
and liked to play with all
with a friend named Lark.
As part of Safer Internet Day, the children in Years 4 and 5 discussed the importance of not sharing personal information online and what is acceptable behaviour when gaming online.
The children discussed what they would do in a range of ‘scenarios’ when gaming online. The children had some very sensible and mature answers.
The children worked through a Safer Internet Day booklet and even 
enjoyed completing a word search and crossword.
As part of Children’s Mental Health Week (7th-13th February), Children from Years 4 and 5 took part in some activities linked to the Mental Health Week theme of ‘Growing Together’.
Firstly we enjoyed watching a virtual assembly which introduced ‘support balloons’ and ‘reaching for the stars’.
The children then designed their own ‘support balloons’ by considering the people in their lives that help them to grow. We discussed the importance of recognising the people we can turn to when we need ‘lifting up.’
They also created their star which set a goal they wanted to reach. They listened to S Club 7’s ‘Reach for the Stars’ for inspiration! The children set an emotional goal they would like to achieve or overcome then they thought about the ‘steps’ they would take to reach their goal. They wrote their ‘steps to success’ on the rungs of a ladder.
The children’s completed work will be used to create a bright, colourful display in school. 
In Science this half term, the children in Year 4 have been learning about Electricity. We decided to get creative and link this to our DT topic.
The children were asked to design Santa’s sleigh that they could make and light up by building a complete circuit which they could control with a switch that they had to make to turn the light on and off.
The children first designed their sleighs and listed all the equipment they would need.
The children brought in their boxes and they began to assemble and decorate their sleighs.
They finally had to add their circuits and light up Santa’s sleigh.
They then evaluated their sleighs and discussed what they would do differently next time to improve their sleighs. 
The children thoroughly enjoyed making these and as you can see, they did an amazing job.