As part of our ‘States of Matter’ science topic we undertook an investigation this week. We wanted to find out if we would be able to observe gas escape from a jar of pebbles when we poured in water. Our predictions were quite different across the class so we were particularly interested in what would happen!

Once the water was poured in, we did observe the gas escape in the form of bubbles. As every good scientist knows, we recognised the importance of recording our observations clearly and neatly. Here is one example below.  

This week paved the way for our annual kS2 sports day at Leeds Beckett University. It was another huge success with 4T certainly playing their part. The children not only pushed themselves in their own events but displayed team spirit and support for each other. A big shout out to those children who competed in the 400m. The weather was beautiful spectator weather but not ideal for running that kind of distance. You all impressed with your resilient spirits. 

We were also treated to an opening ceremony by our amazing cheerleaders. Well done to Miss Patchett who not only trained this amazing team but also organised the day!

On Wednesday, all the year 4 classes headed to The Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate for our countryside day. We had a wonderfully busy time learning a whole range of new things from how potato farmers work to how sheep shearing happens.  Miss Jackson’s personal highlight was watching how gun dogs are trained, particularly the puppies!

The children’s behaviour was outstanding with other people noticing. The coach driver even commented on how calm and polite we were so well done Year 4! We know how important it is to represent our school to a high standard.

This week in 4T we have been learning to look at the detail in our faces so that we could create realistic self-portraits. We took the time to notice the shape of our features and face, our skin tone and hair patterns. Before we got going with the main piece, we used our sketch books to practise different skills that we would need such as how to create realistic hair texture and how to create skin tone using a regular set of coloured pencils. 

I’m sure you agree that we captured the likeness. Can you recognise any of us?

Here at ACE, we know how lucky we are with the extra-curricular opportunities we are offered but two author visits in as many weeks has blown us away. This week we had the pleasure of meeting Tom Vaughan, author of many children’s books. We learnt all about his most recent book ‘Hercules: Hero to Zero?’ The workshop gave us a chance to extend our knowledge of Greek mythology where we all took part in a Greek myth quiz! We particularly enjoyed that children had fun dressing up as Greek Gods and Goddesses.

We can’t quite believe the summer term is already upon us. We have a busy few weeks ahead with lots of exciting things in the diary. We kicked off the term in style with an author visit from Dermot O’Leary. We learnt all about his upcoming book ‘Spy Fox and Agent Feathers’ and found out what inspired him to become an author. 

In our writing lessons, we have continued to craft excellent pieces of non-fiction work about sea creatures. We have drawn upon our geographical knowledge about different biomes and ocean zones to inform this piece. We also took time to consider the layout of our work, recognising that an information text needs to be clear and inviting. 

This week we finished designing and making our night lights. We based our designs on animals and used tissue paper and feathers to bring our designs to life. I hope everyone has a lovely Easter holidays and see you next half term.

As Scientists, we learnt how Dichotomous keys can be used to identify and sort living things. We made our own Dichotomous keys to sort local wildlife and sweets.

We enjoyed visiting Moor Allerton library this week. We discovered that books are organised in alphabetical order by the authors’ surname. We had time to look around the library and read a selection of books. Our focus for Lent has been how Jesus spread his message of hope when ‘fishing for men’. We also created our own messages of hope such as, “you matter,” “never give up” and “you belong.”

For our focus on Lent this week, we have been looking at trust and how Jesus had to put his trust in God while he was in the wilderness. We made trust jar and added the names of people we trust. We discovered most of the names were of close friends and family. We also enjoyed having a pancake race for Shrove Tuesday.