Year 4 (Class 11) - PSHE - The Government

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Class 11 have enjoyed learning about how the government works and about the decisions they have to make.

They have worked in groups to persuade the PM why each area of the government deserves more money.

They presented their arguments for a class vote. 

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Year 4 (Class 11) - English - Author Visit

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Class 11’s first trip into the newly opened school library was introduced by best selling author James Nicol.

He told the children of where he got the inspiration for his latest book ‘The Spell Tailors’ and some other interesting memories about his life.

The children were all looking forward…

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Year 4 (Class 11) - P.E - Dodgeball

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Class 11 have enjoyed honing their dodge ball skills to enable them to play some games.

They have tried hard to think about their techniques and how best to dodge a ball.

It was a good first attempt at some games.

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Physical Education

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Year 4 (Class 11) - P.E - Dodgeball

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Class 11 have enjoyed honing their dodge ball skills to enable them to play some games.

They have tried hard to think about their techniques and how best to dodge a ball.

It was a good first attempt at some games.

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Physical Education

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Year 4 (Class 10) - English - Charles Dickens

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We have been working collaboratively to answer retrieval questions about Charles Dickens, who wrote Oliver Twist.

In our groups of 3, we each had a different section of information about his life such as his childhood or other jobs that he had.

We had to work together to find the answers to…

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English

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Music - Sound and Pitch

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Class 11 decided on how to conduct and experiment to find which pitch of sound travels furthest (low or high).

Mr Horsey played a variety of instruments the children chose, with different pitches, to see which was the loudest.

We measured the volume with a data logger, using decibels.

We…

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Music

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Year 4 (Class 12) - P.E - Ice Skating

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Class 12 had a fantastic time ice-skating. The coach was very impressed with how much they had come on, over the 2 sessions. 

Great work class 12.

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Physical Education

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Commando Joe's - Obstacles

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Class 11 have been thinking about the obstacles Ed Stafford may come across on his journey down the Amazon.

We thought about how he may have to cross the river at some point and how he would have to use anything he may have around him to make a bridge.

The children used the equipment given…

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Commando Joe's

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Homework Achievements

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Charis and Antonia from class 11 have spent some time at home creating a shoebox scene of a room in a Victorian house using what they have learnt in their topic so far.

Well done to them both. 

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Year 4 (Class 10) - Commando Joe's - Food for a Long Journey

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Class 10 had a great time learning about Ed Stafford’s adventures in the Amazon rainforest.

We thought about which foods would be beneficial to us when travelling long distances. We then had to work as a team to collect the food we needed, making sure that other teams didn’t steal our…

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Year 4 (Class 11) - PSHE - Democracy / Dictatorship

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Class 11 have been discussing the difference between a democracy and dictatorship.

They had some statements leadership they would come under. They were also able to identify the type of rule in some countries. 

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PSHE

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Year 4 (Class 11) - English - Oliver Twist Vocabulary

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Class 11 worked in their collaborative pairs to find new vocabulary in a chapter of Oliver Twist.

We then discussed the new words and what we thought they meant by reading the sentence they were in. 

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English

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