Meadow 4 Blog

What invertebrates can we find in our local environment?

Exploring local habitats

Studying invertebrates

Using a 'pooter'.

Healthy Week

We practiced individually and some of us were chosen to learn new stunts in pairs.

BMX

We enjoyed practising and learning new skills from Mattie.

Samba!

We've started to use instruments to learn a popular Brazilian music genre known as Samba.

Sports Day 2025

We've enjoyed our final sports day at Damers!

Sculpting

We've looked at 'form' in art.

Flowers

We have looked at real plants and flowers for inspiration.

Polymer Clay

We used polymer clay and molded and shaped it.

Hello From Leeson! Part 2

Hello from all the children in the second group at Leeson House! Here we are near Dancing Ledge. We've worked really well as a team!

Hi From Leeson House!

We're having a wonderful time! The first group have had a great night and enjoying day 2!

We enjoyed celebrating VE Day for the 80th anniversary with our friends in the other Meadow strands.

We enjoyed listening to music from the 1940s whilst eating a tasty snack. We discussed the importance of the event in class.

We started researching what a Varmint was. We have found this book by Helen Ward and think we now know who the secret gardener is and why they need our help.

We've enjoyed reading the book so far and have written some wonderful, descriptive writing so far.

varmints are coming

We found a curious message.

The secret Gardener

There was a letter from a mysterious 'Secret Gardener.'

Flowers and seeds

The secret gardener left some flowers and seeds but they left in a hurry.

Decimals

We've been looking at decimals in maths and learning how to divide numbers by 10 and 100 such as 4 divided by 10 is 0.4. 4 divided by 100 is 0.04. We have used tenths and hundredths to help us explain the value of digits after the decimal point.

Holiday reads...

Dorchester library is a great place to find your next favourite new author. If you have enjoyed 'When the Mountains Roared', you could even check out more books by Jess Butterworth.

Can you write a powerful description?

Today Meadow 4 tested out AI image generation software. Their task was to write a description of the river that Ruby (our main character in 'When the Mountain's Roared') could see. We entered some of their descriptions into an image generator to see if the picture created matched the picture in their heads!

Bovington tank museum. 12.12.24

Here we are. a bunch of refugees off to the museum.

So much to find out.

Gas mask training.

our land army volunteer.

Learning about life on the Home Front.

The Home Guard in action.

Dad's Army

The terror of the trenches

It was scary enough for 5 minutes. We could not imagine serving time in the trench!

Learning about rationing

A 1940s shop.

A tank. one of many.

Sheltering from the Blitz in an Anderson shelter.

The latest fashion accessory.

Generals deciding on the best strategy for a quick victory.

RE

It was interesting researching the objects that are used by some Hindus during a Puja.

Puja

We enjoyed assembling the parts of a Puja tray and thinking about what each part represents using our senses.

Hinduism

We've been learning about important aspects in Hinduism. We researched different deities and have been looking at shrines in the home and temples.

Will artificial light power a solar cell?

We experimented making a human circuit to power the 'energy stick'!

Will the human circuit work if don't hold hands?

We made circuits with solar cells then tested the energy generated in different areas.

Science visitor

Thank you to Tracy from https://www.earthenergyeducation.com/home

for coming into Year 4 and teaching us about renewable energy, especially solar power! See the photos above for more of our activities with Tracy. The children were really engaged and learnt a lot about our science topic, electricity.

Our new science ambassador

egg-speriment

Testing the effects of acidic, sugary and neutral liquids on egg shells.

Working with:

Poundbury Arts Association

Thanks for visiting our class blog where we'll share photos and updates from our learning.

Sharing Art Work

Thank you for sharing your amazing art work! You have a great talent!

A close-up of the WW2 ID cards.

Home Learning - Sharing WW2 ID cards

Sharing research about great grandparents and their medals.

Sharing research about a telegram involving a lot of suspense!

Sharing facts about World War 2

We enjoyed meeting Jack Meggitt-Phillips, author of The Beast and The Bethany. He really inspired us to create our own characters.

Celebrating Art Work

Thank you for sharing your amazing art work with the class and grown-ups! You have a real talent for sketching and creating wonderful designs. "I think I'd like to be an architect when I'm older."

Marvelous maths

The children worked hard to explain their answers when adding 4 digit numbers with renaming.

"We start adding with the smallest place value digit. If we started with the biggest, we'd probably have to redo the answer if it needed renaming."

Angie Lewin Art

We've looked at art work by Angie Lewin and sketched our own version.

Angie Lewin Art

We chose our favourite piece by Angie to sketch our own design. We then looked at complimenting colours.

SCience

Finding out about our different type of teeth

Science

Finding our molars, premolars, incisors and canine teeth.

Music

We've been learning the song 'My Fantasy Football Team'

Exploring artefacts

Thanks to The Keep Military museum for their loaned items.

Evacuee Items

These objects reminded us of Lenny, an evacuee, from our class story

Posters from ww2

French skipping and singing

The song was called 'chocolat chaud'

Learning about Anderson Shelters

Creating our own models to take home and talk about homelife in WW2

PCSO

We welcomed in our local Police Community Support Officer, Jane, into assembly today. We learnt about her role in the community and got to explore some of Jane's equipment and how to recognise different types of uniform.

Clay Work

All Finished

Decorated

Dragons!

We've enjoyed writing about our own dragons and being dragonologists! Check out our amazing clay dragon eyes too!

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