We have had a busy few days in Year 4. On Monday, we were joined by The Two Johns who spoke to us all about internet safety and how we can make good choices online and when using our devices. Yesterday, we had the opportunity to make our way to the wildlife area to see where the trap camera and been placed. This camera has been loaned to us by Colchester Zoo. We then managed to look at some of the videos it had captured. It was really cool! Today, we have been keen to start our D&T project. We started by learning about the new project and then we started to collect and gather research about Roman catapults. 

 Now that Spring has sprung, there are flowers and blossom all around, it's time for Nature Club to start again. We've has a great start; remembering the Countryside Code, looking at our bug hut installation from last year and discussing the amazing Camera Trap organised for the school by Miss Lucas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWyWMBJT8U Mr Hopegood :)

 Please see below the creative homework for Summer 1.  Children should complete a minimum of 4 creative homework tasks by Monday 18th May 2026. Kind regards,  The Year 4 Team. 

 Good morning, We are planning to create small Roman catapults as part of our D&T learning within our Roman Topic. As part of this, we need to use cardboard. If you have any cardboard at home you could spare, this would be greatly appreciated by The Year 4 Team. Cardboard that you find from Amazon boxes would be work really well. Kind regards,  The Year 4 Team. 

  Year 4 Spelling -  Summer 1 In the picture below, you can see the weekly focus for this half term and also a list of some of the words that match the learning. It is important that the children do not try to memorise these words. They are learning the rule and how to use the phonic skills of segmenting and blending to help them to spell. The Year 4 Team

 This week in science, Year 4 have been learning all about insulators and conductors. We learnt the definitions of these words and spoke about real life examples. We then set up an investigation to test which materials were good insulators and conductors. We found out that metal objects were good conductors because the light bulb lit up when these objects were connected within the circuit. 

 Today in Year 4, we celebrated World Book Day by sharing the story Tuesday by David Wiesner. It was a really interesting book to look at and discuss as it was mostly pictures. We discussed the pictures and thought about what was happening at different points in the story. Our first task was a recount task. We planned and then wrote a recount as if we were one of the main characters in the story. We had to think about our senses and describe using effective details and description. For our second task, we created our animals that could as in the story there were frogs flying on lily pads.  We used a range of colours and details when drawing our animals. Finally,we were then created  a list poem which described the features of our created creatures. 

    Year 4 Spelling -  Spring 2 In the picture below, you can see the weekly focus for this half term and also a list of some of the words that match the learning. It is important that the children do not try to memorise these words. They are learning the rule and how to use the phonic skills of segmenting and blending to help them to spell. The Year 4 Team

 In year 4 today, we have had a busy last day. We were excited to join a virtual meet and greet session with James Davis. He is a children's author who writes sci-fi books about a girl called Scarlet. It was great to hear him speak about his inspirations for story writing and he even shared some top tips with us. After lunch, we then had a chance to share our creative homework. There were some fantastic pieces of work on show. Below are photos of just some of the pieces:

 Yesterday in year 4 we discussed internet safety day. We spoke about how to stay safe on the internet and the things we could do. Also, we spoke about the use of AI and how useful this can be for many people. Then, we discussed the dangers of AI and how people must this technology safely. Finally, we had a try at creating and designing our own safe AI apps.