Year 4

Published on 15th December

This term, the childrne have taken part in the Delight in Watts perogramme in conjunction with the Watts Gallery and artists from Paintbox. They started the project to a visit to the Watts Gallery and a collograph printing workshop, then worked alongside professional artists over three days to produce a painting on the theme 'Neighbourhood Nature', which links with our science work on ecology. The project culminates in an exhibition of the children's paintings at the Watts Gallery - parents and carers came along to our grand opening and the children all dressed up in their finest outfits. The work they have produced is fabulous!

Published on 15th December

In literacy this half term, we have been inspired by Hermelin the Detective Mouse by Mini Grey. After learning all about Hermelin's detective adventures and making lots of inferences about the chracters living in Offley Street, the children wrote their own sequels to the story - The Mystery of the Missing Moggies. They took great pride in producing their own 'casebooks' for their stories.

Published on 15th December

In history, we have made links with the National Civil War Centre in Newark. The curator there has been writing some materials for KS2 about the Civil War, so Aquila Class have been trying them out for her! They learned all about the different kinds of soldiers, how to besiege a garrison (Basing House in Hampshire) and what life was like under siege. They also took part in an online workshop with Denise, the curator, where the children had to take the parts of real people from Newark and discover what happened to the town and its people when it was besieged.

Published on 3rd November

Year 4 have started the year learning about Shackleton's Journey, using the wonderfully illustrated book by William Grill. They were each assigned a character from the crew, wrote letters of application to Shackleton and have been writing diary entries about different points in the expedition. This week, they debated whether or not to move on after the Endurance sank. Shackleton, Worsley & Wild gave a motivational speech to spur the crew on, and next week the crew will move to safer ice to try and make it back to civilisation...