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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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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Commando Joe's

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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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Year 4 (Class 12) - Maths - Place Value

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Last week class 12 were looking at place value in maths and we making numbers up to 10,000 using different resources. 

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Maths

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Year 4 - P.E - Leeds Rhino's Player Visit

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Last week KS2 had a an exciting visit from Leeds Rhino's player Joe Gibbons.

Joe talked about what it takes to become a professional rugby player and did a Q and A session with the children.

Afterwards Joe visited some of the classrooms and signed autographs.

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Physical Education

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Year 4 (Class 10) - PSHE - Government Spending

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Class 10 have been debating what the government should spend taxpayer’s money on!

We split ourselves into teams representing areas like schools, transport and hospitals. We then thought of reasons why our department should receive money and presented it back to the class.

We then used our…

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Science - Sound

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Class 11’s science topic this half term is sound.

We thought about which areas of school would be the loudest and which would be the quietist. We made a list and went round school using the data loggers to find out the decibel reading.

We found the playground was the loudest and office was…

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Science

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Year 4 (Class 11) - Science - Sound

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Class 11’s science topic this half term is sound.

We thought about which areas of school would be the loudest and which would be the quietist. We made a list and went round school using the data loggers to find out the decibel reading.

We found the playground was the loudest and office was…

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Science

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