Year 4

Term 3 summary

We have been continuing our understanding of History and built on from our knowledge of the Saxons to learn about whether the Vikings were raiders, settlers or traders. This all started with a very exciting Wow Day with a Viking visitor. Children enjoyed handling artefacts, playing Viking games and especially learning about Viking warriors and weapons.

We have continued enhancing our scientific understanding and developed a range of skills while learning about the different states of matter. Through investigations children have demonstrated a good understanding of melting, freezing, cooling, condensation and evaporation. Finally, they used these ideas to create their own models of the water cycle to show how condensation and evaporation are a crucial part of everyday life.

In Art, the children have focused on painting skills and have learnt about different ways to show and mix colours through technique (like pointillism) or creating different tints and shades by adding white and black in small amounts to their start colours. This enabled them to produce some fantastic leaf pictures.

In our other lessons, children have built on their knowledge of sound to plan and create podcasts using their audio editing skills; have been able to discuss foods and their opinions of them in French and have continued to work on balance, agility, speed and coordination in our PE sessions. Another busy and productive term for all the children!

Key dates for the first term

Fri. 15th September – First Celebration Assembly
Thurs 21st September – Multiplication Times Table Check (MTC) Parent Workshop
Fri. 29th September – Macmillan Coffee Morning
Fri. 13th October – Walk to School Day
16th & 17th October – Parents’ Evenings
Wed. 18th October – Last day of term (finish normal time)

PE days

Bristol                            Wednesday and Friday

Taunton                          Tuesday and Thursday

Tiverton                          Tuesday and Thursday

Instagram Pages

We would love you to follow our learning journey in school on our class Instagram page. These are locked down, private pages that only members who have been accepted by the class teacher can see. When you request to follow the class page, please message the class teacher on Instagram to confirm which child you are a parent of in the class, as this is not always clear in the username/picture. Please only request to follow the classes that you have children in.

Bristol – bristol_evenswindon_2324

Taunton – taunton_evenswindon_2324

Tiverton – tiverton_evenswindon2324

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