Grove Wood Primary School

Grove Wood Primary School

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Grove Road, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 8UA

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01268 743445

YEAR 4

Year 4 Teaching Staff 2024/2025

 

Miss Stokes Mr Benson Mrs Fenn
4CS 4MB 4EF

 

 

Mrs Cain Mrs Horwood Mrs Newton Mrs Fitzgerald

 

 

Year 4 PE will be on Monday afternoons 

In DT this ½ term we are learning about structures. We have been investigating columns and which shapes, sizes and structures are the best for supporting weight. We made different columns from paper and tested them by putting books on top to see how much weight they would hold. 

In Maths this week, we have been learning about perimeter in rectangles and rectilinear shapes. We used multilink to create shapes and work out the perimeters. From this we were then able to find the lengths of missing sides and use that information to work out the perimeter of the shape.

This ½ term as part of our work in DT, we learnt about mechanisms and made our own hinges from paper. We then designed and made a box from card with wooden corner supports and attached our hinges to the lid in order for it to open. We decorated them with a Christmas theme!
In Art, we learnt about the primary, secondary and tertiary colours and used our colour mixing skills to create patterns. We also used the 'wet on wet' technique to apply watercolours to wet paper to create our artwork.
We have been rehearsing for our Christmas production of 'It's Chri-i-i-i-stmas!' which has involved lots of singing, acting and dancing - it was a huge success and we all really enjoyed performing!

In Year 4 we have been learning about place value in maths.

We used chalk on the playground to create number lines going up in different amounts. 

Year 4 have started their Christmas Festivities with their rendition of

It's Christmas!

As part of our DT learning this ½ term we have been looking at what ingredients go into our food and also at the use of preservatives in shop bought food versus not using preservatives in home cooked food. We taste tested different shop bought breads and looked at the packaging on different pizzas. Then we made our own pizzas using flour, yoghurt and water for the base and put tomato puree and cheese on the top. We also made bread rolls using flour, yeast and water to make the dough. We had to knead the dough for 10 minutes and then let it prove for an hour before we shaped them into rolls and cooked them. They were delicious!

In History we have been learning about the Anglo-Saxons and how  and why they came to Britain.

We re-enacted the invasion!

In art we created rubbings of leaves using wax crayons and went over them with a watercolour wash.

We then created larger versions of these and filled the negative spaces with pastel and crayon patterns. 

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