Year 4
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Year 4 MTC: Information for Parents
Holy Rood 42: Bushcraft Day - We learnt and practised our survival skills by learning how to filter water, make and be safe around fire and investigating different animal skulls and prints.
Science: Living things and their habitats - we explored the local environment at Queens Park to observe how it changes throughout the year and how this can pose dangers to living things. We also explored how we can help to protect this environment.
Geography: We enjoyed visiting Coate Water to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of geographical skills!
RE: We have been learning about the healing sacraments. We were lucky enough to have a visit from Father Lucas who taught us all about the Sacrament of the Sick and how it can physically and spiritually heal a person.
DT: This term, we have been learning about rainforests and how the rainforest produces much of the world’s fruits. For our DT project, we made healthy fruit smoothies where we practised our measuring, weighing and chopping skills.
Holy Rood 42: Be money-wise! We calculated the total cost and change of the ingredients we needed to buy to make our fruit smoothies for our DT project.
Art: We created some beautiful watercolour paintings of the rainforest in the style of French artist Henri Rousseau!
Holy Rood 42: Local Sporting Event - Swindon Town Football Club! We were very fortunate to see behind the scenes of the County Ground stadium, visiting the changing rooms, tunnel, dugout and directors box areas before taking part in a football coaching session and finishing with some football matches on the 4G pitch at Foundation Park.
English: We came into school to find that a mysterious creature had broken in... We explored the clues to discover that it was a WOLF! This term we having been learning and writing different fables including 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf!'
Greek Day!
Holy Rood 42: Outdoor learning - Eco Bingo!
Swimming
We would like to thank you for your support with our intensive week of swimming in Year 4. Your child made some great progress with their confidence in the water throughout the week and should be proud of their achievements.
Being able to swim is an important life skill to have and essential for people of any age to stay safe around water. Following on from this week of intensive swimming, we would highly recommend your child be enrolled in further swimming lessons to ensure they are able to keep themselves safe in and around water.
Please find below some information about how to enrol your child in after school swimming lessons in Swindon.
Click HERE for the current swimming lessons at the Link Centre or you can contact them on 01793 877323.
European Day of Languages!
Enquiry: Year 4 Olympics! We trialled different Olympic activities! We then discussed each event with our teams to decide if this was an ancient or modern Olympic sport...
English: Scavenger Hunt! We went on a scavenger hunt to find hidden clues about our model text! We found lots of objects including a globe, a paint brush and pyramids... We discovered that our model text is a non-chronological report about Egyptian Gods. We have been imitating our model text using actions and our story map to help us!
Year 4 Parent Welcome Meeting
