Maple Class (Y4)

Welcome to Maple Class! (Year 4)

In our class you will see fun learning happening at all levels. Our cross-curricular approach ensures that skills in core subjects like Maths and English might be applied in other subject areas. Topics build on previous knowledge the children have experienced in year groups lower down the school and teach the skills of deeper research in a broad range of subject areas. Our curriculum overview and coverage, along with welcome letter, are attached as documents below. Also included is one of our first knowledge organisers for history which includes all key information for our Victorian study.

Autumn Term 2019

Our Autumn term topic is entitled ‘Victoriana.’ Here we share the life of children in our country 150 years ago and look into how the changes came about in order to appreciate what is provided for us all today. It includes a class visit to a coal mine to experience working life for families during the era. A case study of Queen Victoria is undertaken and children question, investigate and formulate opinions, based on research, about this monarch that led the British country and empire towards significant changes.  We also consider our current rights and responsibilities at school and at home.  Linked also with the great inventions of the 19th century, Class 4 will carry out investigations into changing sounds, particularly in relation to wind and string instruments. There will also be much philosophical thought underpinning our work and many more exciting threads to our challenge question!!!

Coming Soon!!!!!  

Thursday 26th September - Macmillan Coffee Day

Tuesday, 15th October - Harvest Festival

Thursday, 10th  October - Trip to the National Coal Mining Museum

FIRST WEEK BACK - SEPTEMBER 2019

Unit on Victorian Street Scene Music Using Percussion Instruments

Victorian Street Scene - Composing and Performing

Did you know that Alexander Graham Bell, renown for inventing the forerunner to the modern telephone, was actually a sound expert?

 

We have been developing our knowledge about sound too.

How to sounds travel?

How can volume by altered?

STREET CHILD - In literacy we have interrogated the text and used a variety of drama techniques to help us understand the action and the thoughts/feelings of characters as well as their motivations.  This has really helped us when we have written recounts, playscripts and list poems.

Visit to the North Yorkshire Mining Museum

 

STEM WORKSHOP, MINE REFORMS, MINING CONDITIONS POETRY

INSTRUCTION WRITING FOR STOCKING MAKING

The Great Exhibition - Newspaper Report Writing

Great Inventions - Non Chronological Reports

Homework Projects - Victorian Inventions

VICTORIAN MARBLING - CHRISTMAS CARD ENTERPRISE

Spring Term 2020

Spring Term

Our Spring Term has certainly seen our classroom transformed once more with vibrant burst of colour as we compare and contrast life in Navenby to a village in India, Chembakoli.  Whilst tackling location and climate, we will also be unpicking the processes at work in the water cycle, creating explanatory text to show our understanding. This learning will be enhance be further investigation into the nature of solids, liquids and gases!  Our India topic is also centred round respecting and celebrating differences as we investigate the beliefs and practises of the Hindu Faith, decorating our own classroom shrine with images of Hindu Gods and artefacts.  The walls will also be adorned with the steps towards successfully designing Indian Block Print Cushions and the creation of Indian Music Samples as we explore Rag, Tala and Drone!!  We looked forward to visit from a range of people in our community to support our learning such as a local gardener explaining how to grow our own herbs, Sunita Patel returning with the Indian Experience, a Dental Practitioner advising us on tooth care and a number of local authors discussing the writing process during World Book Week.  Plenty to look forward to!

Indian Day

Learning the Hindu Religion and Challenging Stereotypes

Meditation and Well-being

Indian Block Printing Design

We also tested to see which was the most successful material and size for the listening cups as well as what length was best for the connecting lines. Our conclusion was that the best phone would have large, metal cups with short connecting wires!!! 

INDIAN PLAYSCRIPT WRITING

Our Reflection Area - The Christian Value of Faith

Summer 2020

 

CONSERVE AND PRESERVE

Creative Writing Day

It's a Mystery

PERSUASIVE LETTER WRITING - ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES

Recycling Bottles - Explanatory Text

Recounting Anglo-Saxon Myths (cartoons)

Planning and creating our own Anglo- Saxon Myths

Welcome Letter

History Knowledge Organiser Term 1

Homework

ICT SKILLS

Class 4 Have been Computer Coding – We have been creating apps and saving them online so that you can have a nosy.

All the apps that have been created inside school over the last few weeks can be seen if you go to this website link.

http://apps.espressocoding.co.uk/?site_id=5223