Investigating Materials
As part of our topic in year 4, keeping warm, children were set the challenge of building a shelter with limited materials. The aim was for a single piece of […]
Category Archives: Year 4
Year 4 teachers are Miss Johnson, Mrs Gilroy and Miss Burkinshaw.
Y4 Posy Bags
The whole of Year 4 have been busy making their very own, beautiful smelling, posy bags to sell at our Christmas fair this coming Tuesday! This relates to the topic […]
Imaginary Communities
The children in Year 4 have been learning about the features of play scripts and completing a range of drama activities to develop speaking and listening and use of voice. […]
Cycle Skills Day
On Tuesday the 19th of November 2013 as part of Road Safety week, Natalie Whelan, Sustrans Bike It officer for our school, taught a group of Y4 children how to […]
Eyam Family Learning
The children and parents in year 4 are learning how to make a church using 3D techniques. On a recent visit to Eyam the children visited the church and looked […]
Talk into Writing
During autumn term the children in Year 4 were involved in Talk for writing. Improving their literacy skills through creating actions to a non-fiction book based on the plague! As […]
Testing Materials
The children were asked to test how absorbent different types of paper are and how useful they are to mop up spills. The children designed a fair test to find […]
Performance Poetry
In Year 4 we have been looking at a range of poetry, we began by looking at the poem Ring a ring of roses which links to our topic on […]
Building switches!
In year 4 we are learning about electricity and its importance. We discussed our morning routine and all the things we wouldn’t be able to do without electricity. The children […]
Eyam (The Plague Village)
Wednesday the 23rd of October 2013 was the day our Year 4’s and some of our Y5’s visited the historical village of Eyam in Derbyshire. This educational trip was organised […]
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Children in Mr Williams’s club have been learning how to play All Things Bright and Beautiful on the xylophone. Listen to how good we sound.
Neat Numicon!
On Thursday 20th June the year 4’s were fortunate enough to experience a fun and interactive numeracy lesson delivered by maths whizz Mrs Coppley. Using Numicon, a colourful and eye-catching […]
Year 4 Using and Applying
In Numeracy this term we have been putting our maths learning into real life context. We have ventured outdoors to investigate and solve number problems. Meanwhile indoors we have been […]
Herringthorpe’s Live Radio Broadcast!
On Monday the 10th of June we welcomed Reach LIVE into our school for four fun-filled exciting days. Reach Live are a company that delivers exciting radio workshops, based around […]
French Breakfast Morning
Merci beaucoup à tout le monde! Ce matin, votre petit déjeuner était fantastique! Thank you so much to everyone who came this morning, our French Breakfast was a fantastic success; […]
Year 4 Build Workshop
On Tuesday the 4th of June the Y4 Children were given the opportunity to take part in a workshop provided by Hurst, the building contractors. The children were set the […]
Year 4 French Breakfast – Friday 7th June 2013
This week in Literacy, Y4G have been writing letters to persuade parents to join us for our French Breakfast Morning, which will be taking place after Half Term. Here are […]
Y4K Numeracy Investigation
Y4K Numeracy Investigation Recently in Numeracy, Y4K have been working on the concept of time. On Thursday 25th April various activities, related around time, were given to the children and, […]
The Deep
(Click on the logo above to visit their website) On Friday the 19th of April our Year 4’s, as part of their topic of habitats, had the chance to visit The […]