Welcome to Year 4!

Who We Are

In this module we will be inquiring into this central idea: "People have developed human rights and responsibilities to meet their needs and to protect their well-being."

Our lines of inquiry are:

Children’s rights and responsibilities in the community (Form)
Equality and inequality of children’s rights (Perspective)
Roles and choices for responsible behaviour (Responsibility)

Art

Mosaics

We looked at the use of mosaics in Ancient Rome. We attempted to create our floor tiles.

We had to plan our mosaic by sticking to the baseboard board before sticking down permanently with grouting. This all got very messy.

Inquiry

Prov info

Provocation

Planning

The debate

PSHE

PSHE -

Celebrating Differences

Odd Sock Day

Road Safety Week

Children in Need

Making assumptions

We have looked at how people make assumptions about people based on what they look like and how they behave.

We have considered how we shouldn't assume things about people based on stereotypes.

PE

Ball Skills

Hockey

History

Remembrance Day

Outdoor Learning

Our work helped us to make connections to our work on the Romans and their use of mosaics.

Although not with stones and pebbles we did attempt to make patterns.

Archeologist visit

We were lucky to be visited by a local archeologist named Gerald who taught us about the impact of the Romans in our local area.

We looked at different tiles and how they would have been used on Roman houses.

We made links to Lullingstone and how we can learn from the ruins found there.

We looked at pottery and the designs on them.

DT

Aqueducts

We made connections with our History and DT studies when making our aqueducts. We considered why the aqueducts were designed by the Romans and the impact they had on the lives of people living during this time.

We designed, made and tested our aqueducts.

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Science

Investigation - Rowan

We investigated the effects of different liquids on eggs. We made observations over 7 days.

Investigation - Willow

We made predictions about what would happen to both the egg and the shell. Picture - day 2

Investigation - Rowan

We investigated the effects of different liquids on eggs. We made observations over 7 days.

Investigation - Willow

We were surprised how the squash had changed the egg shell an that the coke had changed the colour of the egg.

Creating our own digestive system

As part of our work on the digestive system we created our own poo.

We pretended that the plastic bag was our stomach. We added bananas, crackers, water and orange juice. - Frank D

The food was broken down into small chunks like it would in our stomach. It continued in our digestive system to the small intestine (tights). - Kaitlyn

All of the nutrients (water and orange juice) were squeezed out of our small intestine (tights) onto the tray (blood.) - Draychen

Anything that was left was then our poo. Which comes from our large intestine, rectum and anus. - Kaavya

Career talk - dentist

As part of our studies on the digestive system we have also been looking at the teeth. One of our parents came in to talk to use about her job as a dentist.