Last week, Year 4 were visited by the Animal Menagerie to support our Geography topic on the rainforest. We had lots of fun learning about, looking at and touching different animals from rainforests across the world. The children were very brave too holding some of the reptiles!

Year 4 had the fantastic opportunity last week to share their art exhibition with Year 3 and parents too. The children shared stories about their art work and the inspiration behind it and then showed their visitors around their creations. The church looked brilliant with our lit up lanterns, banners and portraits! It was a great end to our art project and we are so proud of all your hard work Year 4!

Year 4 visited Sudbury Hall last week to look at how museums set up exhibitions to help us when we create our own art displays. During the day, we had lots of fun playing with toys from the past, learning about how collectors create exhibitions and even learnt some things about the lives of Victorian children! The weather was on our side and we managed to eat our lunch in the sun and played on the playground. We can’t wait to use our new knowledge when creating our own art exhibitions.

ear 4 were very lucky to visit the B’Arts workshop as part of our art project. We had so much fun recording sound tracks, making giant lanterns and painting our fabric tiles! We are very excited to use all of these pieces of art as part of our exhibition later in the year.

Year 4 have been taking part in an art project over the last half term linking to the past, present and future of Shelton. We have been photographers around Shelton, poets and artists – creating dioramas and portraits on acetate. We’ve even used over-head projectors to create fabric prints of our photographs. We have been having so much fun and are looking forward to the rest of our project this half term.

Year 4 took part in some very exciting activities that introduced our history topic of the Ancient Greeks. We tasted Greek food, found artefacts in sand, located Greek cities on a map, tried out Olympic javelin and even did some traditional Greek dancing!! We had a fun morning and we can’t wait to learn more about the Greeks.

o start our new science topic about the human body, we learnt all about different teeth. To help us remember the different types we made our own set of teeth and labelled them to create a diagram showing the functions of each type of tooth.

Year 4 recently visited the park to look at different birds in our locality. They used their classification and observational skills to identify different birds and kept a tally of how many they saw. We had lots of fun spotting birds and also a few cheeky squirrels too!

Year 4 had a very exciting opportunity to visit St Mark’s Church to see an art exhibition that they have on display and learn a bit about the restoration process of the church too. Whilst we were there, we were able to hold and look at different types of ceramic pottery and create our own small exhibition too.

We had a fantastic start to our Geography topic when The Unconventional Menagerie came to visit us with lots of animals that live in the rainforest. We got to touch lots of different reptiles and amphibians including huge lizards and snakes! Year 4 were very brave and touched them all!