Year 4

Spring Term 2

We have a busy term!! We will begin swimming every Friday at the TLC. In school, we will begin to learn about the Romans, exploring how the Roman Empire grew. In Science, we will study electricity. We will have the opportunity to use safe electrical equipment to make simple circuits using wires, batteries, bulbs and buzzers. The children will continue to develop their understanding of how to plan a fair investigation. In DT, we will use our new knowledge from this term about electrical circuits to create our own buzzer game.

Spring Term 1

In Spring 1, our theme was Take One Artist. We looked at a painting called 'The basket of apples' by Paul Cezanne. In Art, we studied real life drawings and created our own artistic sketches. This term, we had an exciting time studying rivers our Geography topic.  We learnt how rivers work, including the features such as ox bow lakes and meanders. In Science, we learnt about states of matter’. We investigated the water cycle in depth and the changing state of materials.

Autumn Term 2

In Autumn 2, our theme was Take One Scientist. We had a focus on Christian Doppler who discovered the Doppler effect. This linked nicely to our science topic about sound. Furthermore, we looked at the Ancient Greeks, including the mythical creatures, gods, the Olympics, and understood their use of democracy.

Autumn Term 1

This term, our theme was Take One World. We learnt about our class animals, which are all endangered species, and considered how we could help to protect them. We also looked at a variety of maps and began to navigate using grid references and OS symbols.