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Today, the children had the opportunity to try out some golf skills in the hall, playing different skills games, and outside playing golf rounders!

Today, the children were immersed in all things Ancient Egyptian, with a full day exploring what life was like 4,000 years ago.  They looked at artefacts, learnt all about the Pharaohs, found out about the pyramids and listened carefully as Lauren told them all about Tutankhamun.

They learnt about how the Ancient Egyptians took measurements using cubits, hands and fingers.  The children used these measurements to measure items around the classroom.

In the afternoon, they became avid viewers and participants in the mummification process, finding out all the gruesome details about how the Ancient Egyptians prepared the bodies of the Pharaohs and nobility for burial and their journey to the afterlife.

A fantastic day and some fantastic costumes too!

Introduction to the Ancient Egyptians

Quiz

Tutankhamun Artefacts

Measuring Ancient Egyptian Style and Hieroglyphics

Game

Mummification

Costumes

We hope everyone has had a wonderful half-term break and you’re ready for our term 4 learning together!

This term PE will be on Wednesday all afternoon rather than split across two different sessions.  Please ensure full PE kit is in school ready for our lessons each week.  For full details on PE uniform requirements, please click here to see our uniform page on the website.

We continue our history theme about the Ancient Egyptians this term and look forward to our Ancient Egyptians Day on Thursday 29th February – the children can dress up on that day too! We also have World Book Day to look forward to this term – get your costume ideas ready for then too – Thursday 7th March.

Take a look at our term overview below to  see what else we will be learning about this term.

Term Overview (PDF Download)

Term 4 Overview – Ancient Egyptians

Key Instant Recall Facts (KIRFs) (PDF Download)

KIRFs – 7x table

The Year 4 Team

Mr Houghton and Miss Fellows
Miss Wayland, Miss Ellis and Miss Frampton

This term in Art we have been learning about Georges Pierre Seurat, a French post-Impressionist artist, and creating our own pointillism art work in our sketchbooks.

Today, the children have been learning about pitch in science.  How can we change the pitch of an instrument? How do we make the pitch higher or lower?

This term the children have been improving on their hockey skills from last year. They have practised dribbling, passing and shooting whilst keeping in control of the ball. We have been playing mini-matches at the end of each session and they have been very competitive!

This term, the children are learning about the days of the week and months of the year in our French lessons. Today, they were working in groups to match the English month names to the French month names.  They find it strange that in French the days and months do not start with a capital letter!

In music, the children have been listening to the 80s classic “Walk Like an Egyptian” by The Bangles.  They have been learning the song and enjoying dancing to the music.

This week they have been using hieroglyphics to represent the music through notation rather than using traditional notes, staves and clefs.

Year 4 children led KS2 worship today, talking about Trick Questioners. They referred to Mark’s Gospel and a story where Jesus was challenged by the religious leaders about whether people should pay taxes to Caesar.  They asked the children whether they had ever been asked a trick question and how it made them feel.

Dear God,

Thank you that we have a wonderful role model in Jesus.

Please help us to think carefully before we react to what other people say to us or do to us. Give us wisdom is these situations.

Bless us all today in our learning and as we play together.

Amen.