Every day, the children in Year 4 have time for reading for pleasure after lunch. On St Joseph’s Day, (Wednesday) we were able to take advantage of the nice weather and sit in the St Francis of Assisi garden with our books and share some time in the sunshine. It was lovely to be outside and we...

This half-term in Science the children in Year 4 are learning about forces. This week they investigated how levers work and proved that you can lift a heavy weight without much effort! Using a lever and a Newton meter to measure the effort (force), they showed that a 1kg weight can be lifted using o...

This half-term in Computing, the children in Year 4 have been using a music app called Isle of Tune to create beats, rhythms and melodies. The tune is played when a car moves along a road, and it passes different icons, such as trees, houses and lamp posts. The children have been really creative!

Year 4 are doing gymnastics for indoor PE (much nicer in this cold weather!) and the children have been creating their own sequences in partners. These included balances, bridges, rolls and turns and different ways of moving around the apparatus. All the children have also remembered to include...

This week in our Science lesson, the children in Year 4 were learning about the digestive system. They cut out pictures of the organs that the body uses in the digestion process, and glued them in the right place on a template of the body. In the pictures, it looks like we’ve got some new memb...