Year Four are really enjoying their hockey lessons and today they put their new found skills of dribbling, tackling, defending and shooting into practice playing a tournament as they prepare for their upcoming Hockey Festival!
Go Bede Burn!
Year 4 had a busy World Book Day today! We started the morning by sharing books and stories with each other where we talked about our favourite books and why we had chosen to come dressed as them today. We decorated our ‘Starbooks’ cups ready to sip our hot chocolate from. We discussed our class book for World Book Day which was called ‘Secrets of the Mountain’ linked with our current Geography unit before writing our own narrative poems about mountains. Finally, we split into our house groups to share our stories with the rest of the school.
We looked fabulous in our costumes and Miss Barron and Mrs Riley were super impressed with all of our costumes!
Year 4 had their first Hockey lesson this afternoon in P.E. We practised holding the Hockey stick correctly along with using our eyes to keep control of the ball. We focused on dribbling and only using one side of the Hockey stick when dribbling. We had great fun and are excited for our next Hockey lesson.
Year Four practised their orienteering and map work skills to complete an orienteering course using the full school grounds. We discussed the key features of the map and what the symbols represented before setting off in our pairs to find the corresponding letters to match 14 orienteering markers.
We were really efficient at using the map to find the markers and we had loads of fun!
Year 4 have had an amazing introduction to their next science topic of “Changing Matter” that they will be starting after half term by a visit to the National Glass Centre.
We performed a range of experiments to see if our predictions would be correct when water was added to different substances and watched how glass is blown to create a beautiful wavy bowl after heating it to temperatures of 1,100 degrees!
To end a brilliant day, we planned and made our own glass designs that will be fired in the ovens at 780 degrees and collected over the holidays,
We are so excited for next term!
Year 4 enjoyed our Forest School session this afternoon which was linked to our current Science topic ‘Grouping and Classifying’. We explored the Plant Kingdom and Plant Classification to further develop our knowledge and understanding of classification keys.
This week we have been focusing on developing our posture during our Oracy sessions. Year 3/4 were tasked with balancing a book on their head whilst maintaining good posture through keeping our shoulders back and down and our torso up straight. We enjoyed the challenge and competed against each other to see how far we could travel whilst keeping the book balanced.
Year 3/4 had a lovely start to the morning with eating pancakes and sharing poetry books as part of our reading for pleasure. We enjoyed sharing these poems between the two classes.
Y4 had a great time yesterday immersing themselves in books at Jarrow library!
Year Four completed their Vista topic in our Time to Talk Day using all the knowledge they have gained, to research and produce a piece of landscape art focusing on creating an atmospheric perspective using different shading and colouring techniques. They chose which medium they wished to use to colour their drawing and some decided on watercolours, pencils, fine line pens or even pastels.
Once completed, the children wrote a statement explaining why they had chosen that particular picture and which techniques they had used, which they presented to parents and carers in our art gallery.
