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The children in Year 4 thought about their future career aspirations and what they would like to be in the future. We set ourselves some goals and identified the necessary steps to take to achieve them.

Here are a list of some of our future career aspirations:

Hairdresser
Policeman
Beautician
Boxer
Marine Biologist
Scientist
Fireman
Footballer
Games Inventor

The children in year 3 considered the concept of Bullying and the ways in which to deal with difficult situations. We created posters with a ‘Super Hero’ theme with messages on how to deal with issues should they arise.

We recently considered what it is that makes us British. Is it the tea we drink, the fact that we have our own monarch, the football team we support or that we queue to be served in the shops which makes us British? The children had to arrange the criteria they were given in accordance with how they considered them important towards our British way of life and how they portray us as being British citizens in the modern world.

In English, the children in year 4 were describing a range of settings whilst drawing upon their senses. The children worked alongside their peers to imagine what they might be able to hear, touch/feel, see, smell as well as taste in specific settings so as to help them include a more detailed and descriptive account within their own story writing.

Year 4 had to investigate a range of materials in a circuit to indentify whether they would, or would not, conduct electricity. After many predictions, the children tested and recorded their findings.

The children in Year 4 recently had the opportunity to demonstrate and utilise their philosophical thinking skills. We had to work collaboratively to identify and sort philosophical questions (those which make us think as they do not have a definite answer) from those which were not philosophical (those which do have a definite answer). Some examples of philosophical questions are:

What is love?
Is it ever right to lie?
What is happiness?
Do arguments need winners?

Children in Year 4 had fun using the dice to generate, then order, both 3 and 4 digit numbers. Children worked collaboratively, using their knowledge of place value in order to arrange the numbers they had generated from smallest to largest and vice versa.

Children in Years 3 and 4 enjoyed a fantastic morning learning a variation of languages with our Sirius Language Leaders. The Year 10 students showcased their talents in French, German and Spanish all of which was enjoyed by the children and staff alike!

The children in year 4 enjoyed having a taste of France recently. French bread, croissants, brie and ‘red wine’ (blackcurrant juice). They had to use their language skills to ask for each item. For example, je voudrais du pain et du fromage s’il vous plait. I would like some bread and some cheese please. As you will see from the photograph, Mariah wasn’t too keen on the strong tasting Brie!

As part of our ‘Victorians’ topic, we have been studying the work of Henry Redmore. Henry Redmore was a Hull born artist who painted most of his work in the second half of the 19th Century. His subjects were mostly within the Humber Estuary, the river Hull and open waters of the North Sea. The children enjoyed using their colour mixing skills to try to recreate the ‘moody’ tones of Redmore’s work. I’m sure you’ll agree that they did a fantastic job.