Summer Term 

In the Summer term we will be doing two themes 'Latin Fever' and 'Stones and Bones'. 

Latin Fever 

During this theme our learning will be based around Brazil. In English, we will be inspired to write using a range of books including; The Great Kapok Tree and The Wonder Garden. In Geography, we will learn about Brasil, the rainforest and it's human geography. In science, we will explore living things and their habitats. In Art, we will be inspired by the Brazilian artist, Beatriz Milhazes, using her art work to inspire our printing. 

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Spring Term

In the Spring term we will focus our learning around two themes: 'Shining a light on other worlds' and St John's Kitchen. 

St John's Kitchen

During this theme our learning will be based around food. In English, we will wrote poetry inspired by the work of Michael Rosen. In DT, we explored seasonality and created our own seasonal pizzas. In science, we learnt about food groups and the need for a balanced diet. We created our own perfect balanced meal and evaluated our own diets. In Art, we were inspired by Picasso's clay plate and created our own. Check out some of our pizzas and art work in the gallery below. 

Shining a light on other worlds

During this theme our learning was based around escaping to other worlds. In English, we were inspired by the book The Barnabus Project - we created our own hybrid animal to write about. In Science, we explored light and how shadows are formed. Our main learning was centred around the Year 3/4 production of Zoom! Year 4 took to the stage and accepted the challenge of acting and learning lines to perform. Where as Year 3 were our wonderful chorus.  Check out the gallery below to see how it all turned out.

Autumn Term

During the Autumn term, we will focused our learning around two topics. We began with 'Who am I? Where am I?' and after half term we started our theme 'Escape to the lakes'. 

Autumn 2

Escape to the Lakes

Our theme in Autumn 2 was Escape to the Lakes. As geographers, we focused our learning around The Lake District. We learnt about the reasons why people visit and how mountains are formed. 

As scientists, we learnt about states of matter with focus on the water cycle. We used our science knowledge to write an explanation text about the water cycle. 

As artists we were inspired by the wonderful David Hockney. We drew landscapes based on his style. 

Autumn 1

Who am I? Where am I?

We started the year with the theme Who am I? Where am I?  Our all about me topic, within science lessons, we explored our teeth and digestive system. We will learnt the different purposes of teeth and what happens when we eat food. 

In history, we delved into the significance of Basing House. Looked at the impact it had on the first English Civil War. 

In DT, we made photo frames. Year 4 were challenged to see it they could make their photos spin. 

We created portraits of ourselves and enjoyed learning how to look after our hearts in Heartsmart.