Year 4 Topaz Class

Mrs Woodgate	Miss Hatzfeld	Mrs Tedder
Class Teacher	High Level	Teaching Assistant (PM)
	Teaching Assistant

Autumn Term Two

We have had an action packed second part to the Autumn term in Year 4. The term started with Future Ready Week, where we had to share and develop our ideas to create a new toothbrush and toothpaste for Haleon to encourage children to clean their teeth. It was intriguing week where the children developed their teamwork and collaboration skills to create their own presentation that included an advert to the panel of Dragons.

In History, our Anglo-Saxon and Viking learning continued with an exciting adventure to Chertsey Museum to meet a real-life Viking (well, a Viking reenactor!). We had the opportunity to be hands-on with some Viking artefacts and ask questions to an expert who helped us to further develop our subject knowledge. It was an engaging morning and we used our new understanding to help us write a diary entry back in class as Clever Writers. We included and developed facts that we had learnt about the Vikings as warriors to write a diary entry in role about the Viking raid on Lindisfarne.

In Maths this half term we have continued to develop our times tables knowledge and explore different strategies to learn all our related times tables facts up to 12 x 12. Earlier on in the term, we took part in Math’s week to develop our learning of shape by creating hands on tangram animals. We recalled our sticky knowledge of shapes, and their properties, that we already knew. We began to explore triangles and different quadrilaterals in more detail to improve our Year 4 knowledge.

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Autumn Term One

It has been a very busy first half term in year 4, with the children developing their writing of simile and metaphor poetry in our first writing unit. Initially, we began to explore and understand the difference between similes and metaphors and create examples of each to describe ourselves. We then explored different topics such as the weather, and different emotions to help us generate and extend our descriptive ideas. Here are some examples of our poetry writing:

The children in year 4 have also had the opportunity to start swimming this half term, with half of the class attending on Tuesday afternoons. This group have made an amazing start to the sessions, demonstrating confidence and resilience.

For the other children not attending swimming yet, we have had the enriching opportunity to take part in small group art sessions led by Hannah our resident artist. These children have worked over a period of a few weeks to create their own Anglo-Saxon decorative plate and jewellery, creating intricate designs out of Fimo clay inspired by Anglo Saxon metalwork and jewellery.