Class 10

Lake District Residential - Day 1

We have had a brilliant day around the Lake District today. At lunchtime, we visited Windermere and had a go at skimming stones for one of our golden opportunities. Then, we moved on to Hawkshead where we spent the afternoon bug hunting, drawing and learning to use a compass in the grounds of the youth hostel. After dinner, we played outside or painted by the stream. To finish the day, we had fun singing together while Mr White played the guitar.

Well done to our certificate winners.

As part of our Ghana topic, Sarah from the DEC came to school to teach us about Fairtrade and cocoa farming in Ghana. We found out how cocoa beans grow in pods from the trunks of cacao trees that are planted and cared for by farmers in the forests of Ghana. Twice are year, the ripe pods are cut down so that the cacao beans inside can be removed, dried out, weighed and taken across the sea to different factories to be manufactured into chocolate products. To be paid a fair price and treated fairly, the farmers need to be part of the Fairtrade organisation.

Year 4 really enjoyed learning about sound practically from our visiting scientist Sam. He showed us different experiments to help us understand how the volume, and pitch change depending on different factors. We learned sound does not just travel through air and we explored how we hear because sound waves enter our ear.

Certificate Winners-Week ending in 17th January

Well done to everyone who received certificates and prizes this week for excellent work, behaviour and homework

10th January 2025

Here are some of the masks we made in DT after learning about what theatre was like in Ancient Greece.

20th December

Well done to all of our attendance winners this term.

15th November 2024 

Class 10 enjoyed Children in Need today and we were very impressed with the cake competition entries from our class.

Well done to everyone who got certificates over the last 2 weeks too!

25th October

As part of Black History Month, Year 4 chose who they wanted to find out more about and they worked in groups to make posters to show in our parent assembly. 

Well done to everyone who got an attendance certificate for Autumn Term 1.

18th October

Year 4 had a brilliant trip to Leeds City Museum. We took part in workshops about Ancient Greece and we really enjoyed exploring the Greek and Egyptian artefacts.

11th October

We have enjoyed learning about the Ancient Greek Olympics this week and we are going to write a newspaper report pretending we have been to watch one of the events. You will be able to read them when you come in to see our work.

Well done to all our certificate winners this week!

4th October

Well done to everyone who won certificates over the last two weeks.

27th September

Year 4 enjoyed finding out about different European countries to celebrate European languages day. We listened to different languages being spoken and had great fun playing bingo with how to greet each other in different languages. Our art work shows the Greek temple the Parthenon.

20th September

In science this week, Year 4 have enjoyed investigating how to make a circuit. They learned to connect wires to a cell and a bulb to make the light work. When they added a switch, they could make the light turn on and off.
 

9th September

In Year 4 this week we talked about the history we learned last year and then we launched our Ancient Greece topic. To help us think about what we would like to find out about in this topic, we explored different resources in groups. We watched videos on BBC Bitesize to find out what life was like in Ancient Greece, looked at reconstructed pottery, made notes using the non-fiction books we had and tried on dressing up clothes. After that we talked together about the key questions we want to research and answer this term.