Year 4 have had a wonderful fortnight, full of lots of learning, well done everyone! We have been celebrating ‘our wonderful world’ in RE, watching some amazing videos with David Attenborough and singing ‘What a Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong. We have also been learning about and recalling the key elements of the Creation story.

We are enjoying being historians and starting to explore Ancient Egypt, finding out all about Tutankhamun. We have made a timeline of historical eras and events that we have previously learnt, and we looked at where Ancient Egypt fits in within our timeline. In science we have been investigating electrical circuits, and explaining how they work, exploring what happens when we put two bulbs into our circuit and how a switch works, which created lots of excitement! We then recorded our circuits by drawing symbols.

On Friday afternoons we have started a 10-week whole class 'First Access Strings Project', where we are learning to play the violin or the cello. We have now had two sessions and we are thoroughly enjoying it! We look forward to performing a short concert for our parents and carers at the end of the 10 weeks.

In art, we are continuing our theme of ‘drawing’ by exploring charcoal as a drawing material and creating observational drawings of instruments using light and dark to create tone. The children are thoroughly enjoying immersing themselves in the picture book of the story of ‘The Whale’, and have used some absolutely wonderful expanded noun phrases with keywords from the text, fronted adverbials and prepositional phrases within their writing! We are continuing to work hard on our place value in maths, focusing on finding 1, 10, 100 and 1000 more or less than a number, flexible partitioning of numbers to 10,000, and identifying missing numbers on a number line up to 10,000! What a busy time!