Welcome to Class 4 - Otters
These are the staff who work in Class 4
Term 6 Overview
Rapid Recall Facts - Term 6
Dover Museum - Roman Workshops
Roman Presentations
Roman Presentations
As part of the children's homework, Year 4 have all created their own presentations about a different aspect of Roman Life. We then listened to them all at school, at learnt a lot of interesting facts about the Roman Empire! Well done Otters Class for a fantastic display of homework!
Sound - Science
Rapid Recall Facts - Term 5
DT - Baking Manchester Tarts
VE Day
Faversham Golf Club Sessions
Rapid Recall Facts - Term 4
Easter Bonnet Winners
SCARF Workshops
Coconut Pyramids - Cooking!
World Book Day
Leeds Castle
Jackson Pollock
As part of Arts week, the children looked in detail at Jackson Pollock, his life and his artwork. Otters Class wrote some brilliant biographies based on the life of Jackson Pollock. The children learnt about his abstract approach to art, thinking about the art he created makes you feel and the children also had a go at painting in the same style too.
Jackson Pollock Artwork
Rapid Recall Term 3
Happy Valentine's Day
Debating
Basketball
Djembe Drumming
Rapid Recall Term 2
Rapid Recall Facts
Trumpet Performance - Miles
Making Pretzels
S.T.E.M Week
Our STEM week theme was 'time' and we have themed lots of our learning around this topic! We have been looking at time in space, how time is measured and what time is used for today. In amongst this learning we also designed and constructed our own clocks, using a functioning clock mechanism. They look fab!
Scone Making - DT
We had a great time making a traditional UK treat, the humble scone. The children weighed the ingredients, mixed and rolled the scones, and were able to enjoy their cream-tea together, at the end of the day. A truly British experience!
A Traditional Cream-Tea!
PTA Halloween Fun Run
We had a brilliant time, raising money for the PTA. Our sponsored run was certainly fun, but also quite scary - the costumes were an excellent edition, helping us run in fear from the scary witches and wizards! Check out the pictures below:
Canterbury Cathedral Trip
We had the pleasure of visiting Canterbury Cathedral as part of our UK topic. We learnt a great deal about the history of the Cathedral, the architecture and the stories attached to archbishops and kings. As well as this, we tried our hand at stain glass window making, stonemasonry and sketching the beautiful architecture inside and outside of the Cathedral. Our guided tour was in costume and we learnt all about Thomas Beckett and Henry II's tumultuous relationship.
Canterbury Cathedral Trip
Union Jack Collage - In the style of Jasper Johns
Fantastic Friday - Comedy Club
2023 - 2024 Cohort
We had great fun on Roman Day!
We designed our own coins and played a traditional Roman game, which some historians now refer to as Rota. it proved a bit more challenging than Three in a Row.
Class 4 have incredible talent in paper sculpture and worked in teams brilliantly to construct their own Colosseum!
Fuelled for battle!
Some wonderful poetry on the subject of sound. I hope you recognise your child's handwriting.
And somehow we also managed to create our own Olympic medals!
We enjoyed learning about discipline and practised some self-defence techniques in our Taekwondo taster session.
We enjoyed developing Rugby skills and techniques with visiting coaches.
Golf instruction
Groups collaborated to make new versions of the French playground game, Escargot.
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Class 4 Olympic Art
Para Volleyball and Archery
Boxercise!!!
Class 4 did themselves proud on Sports Day - superb effort certainly increased enjoyment!
Understanding sound as vibration, using the string telephone experiment.
Fathers' Day cards, Roman god-style
Rapid Recall Facts
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We enjoyed a fitness challenge with James Dasaolu, 2014 European 100m champion.
Making spirit levels using microbits and rulers in Computing lessons.
Shared reading with Class 2
A lovely time on Sheldwich Lees, sketching the original school house as part of our History Day. The school was first established in 1814.
and some lovely results!
There were some fantastic Easter bonnet creations this year! The children confidently explained their design choices and methods of construction.
Book Week dress up day
Book Week Forest School session with Ms Caverly. Inspired by our class reading of The Hobbit, as well as folklore tales from around the world studied during the week, the children had great fun creating their own characters from clay and natural materials.
Finished pieces!
More outdoor learning. Another Science experiment and much better weather, but, despite a variety of different insulators, our ice was still very slow to melt. We enjoyed Ms Caverly's fire steel demonstration and hot chocolate too!
Class 4 worked so hard on their debating. We have some EXCELLENT orators in our midst!!
Outdoor Science in our Forest School area
Our Field of the Cloth of Gold workshop at Leeds Castle was fantastic fun!
We studied Pieter de Hooch's The Courtyard of a House in Delft as a class, focused on a detail in the painting and wrote our own poem in response. We then created a pack of identical cards, each backed with a different poem. We invited visitors to pick a card at random and read the back.
Art Week: We drew significant doors in blue marker pen, which opened onto colourful domestic scenes. These went towards a whole school installation, displayed in the hall at the end of the week.
We'd practised picking up small sweets with chopsticks, so were experts once the noodles arrived!
The children enjoyed working in groups to make their own section of The Great Wall of China.
Rapid Recall Facts Term 3
After work on circuits and experiments with basic switches, we made our own wire loop games. It was surprisingly difficult to avoid completing the circuit (and setting off the buzzer!)
In Science we have been studying electricity, recognising quite how much we make use of it and how important safety is. Everyone enjoyed learning how to wire a plug.
The children really enjoyed drumming sessions with Sam!
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The class wrote some beautiful spontaneous poems, inspired by steam rising from damp wood as the sun shone on our sensory garden.
Rapid Recall
Lemon Batteries. Groups successfully constructed working batteries by adding a zinc nail and copper coins to opposite ends of a lemon. We proved a small amount of electrical charge but failed to light a bulb with several linked together. Some interesting discussion followed: we used a multimeter to test our circuit thoroughly, eventually concluding that our wires were somewhat resistant and our bulbs a little weak.
An exhausting Skittles transportation activity! We timed ourselves to see how many moves we could complete in one minute, then speculated whether this could be doubled in two. We found some interesting variables. Some adventurous individuals tested their theories further by attempting three minutes!
Our STEM week experiments with static electricity.
We used a a basic turntable, letting the bearing do the work to create some lovely spin pictures.
