Year 4

5 years ago
Posted on 25th Mar 2020 by

Fitness House Hunt

I’ve written a ‘treasure hunt’ style activity which gets the children moving around the house, completing different fitness exercises. Simply grab some pieces of paper and a pen, write down the different fitness ‘clues’ and hide the trail around the house at the different locations for them to discover. (Or if you have a printer you’re more than welcome to print off the document attached where it’s all written for you ready to go!). Feel free to adapt the number and time-lengths of the activities to suit the age and stamina of your child.  You could even repeat it with different exercises or get the children to change it themselves; if they’re really creative they could make their own!

Fitness House Hunt

  • (START) Exercise is fun to do. By the sofa is your first clue.
  • Do 10 sit ups on the floor. Then go and look on the bathroom door.
  • 10 jumping jacks and show you’re keen. Then head straight to the washing machine.
  • Touch your toes and then your head (x10). Make your way up to your bed.
  • For 20 seconds, make a bridge. Run down the stairs to reach the fridge.
  • 20 seconds: hold the plank position. Quickly skip to the television.
  • Do 10 push ups on the ground. Jump to where your shoes are found.
  • Complete 10 squats at a steady pace. Find a mirror to look at your face.
  • 30 seconds: hold a balanced pose. Move to the place that stores your clothes.
  • Do 10 burpees jumping up high. Go to the lounge window to see the sky.
  • Admire the view- you are the best. Now grab a seat and take a rest!

Fitness House Hunt  (This also includes a letter which each clue, so once they’ve completed each activity they’ll discover the hidden message!)

Did they enjoy it? They could time themselves and see if they can beat their score the next time!

5 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by

Science Ideas for Home Learning

If you are wanting to do some Science and STEM learning at home, follow the links to these amazing websites!

 Explorify

You will need to create a login and it may take a little while for you to familiarise yourselves with the site, but this is a great resource! Each activity has teaching notes, explaining how to use the activity…

https://explorify.wellcome.ac.uk/

Marvin and Milo

This website is a series of cartoon strip style instructions for easy to do science activities from the institute of physics. Each activity also has a simple scientific explanation.

Great activities to try are: reappearing coin, lava lamp, musical coat hanger (you can use any metal cutlery), convection snake, bouncing balls, ‘alkaseltzer’ rocket and balloon rocket.

http://www.physics.org/marvinandmilo.asp

Enjoy!

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Mar 2020 by

World Book Day

Base 3 (Year 2) and Base 7 (Year 4) shared their favourite books together during World Book Day. It was lovely to watch the children interacting with each other and sharing a love of books and reading!

5 years ago
Posted on 06th Nov 2019 by

Maths Week 2019!

As part of Maths Week 2019, TT Rockstars are encouraging children to play on TT Rockstars as much as possible. They are holding a competition that we have entered. Please see the poster below:

Please encourage your children to go on TT Rockstars as much as possible and I look forward to seeing all of their success.

Mr Taylor

 

5 years ago
Posted on 13th Sep 2019 by

Welcome back Year 4!

Year 4 have had a great first couple of weeks settling back into school.

This term, our topic is Walk Like An Egyptian and we will be learning about Egypt in the past and present, mummification and gods and goddesses. They will also be doing some Egyptian artwork and looking at hieroglyphics which we are really excited to do.

Our Science topics this term are Sound and Electricity. As part of these topics, we will be planning and carrying out lots of investigations, including making a sound proof pyramid and Christmas decorations.

PE kits need to be in school every Monday as our PE slots are Monday and Wednesday. They can be taken home after Wednesday’s lesson.

Spellings are given out every Monday and tested on Friday. Maths homework is given out every Friday and needs to be completed by the following Thursday.

We are excited for the following term and can’t wait for everything that we have planned.

If you have any questions for us, please contact the school office.

Thank you,

Mr Taylor and Mrs Beardwood