St John the Baptist CE VA Primary School Year Four

Year 3 and 4 had an amazing Ancient Egyptian Day enjoying a visit from Hertford Museum and taking part in their Journey to the Afterlife workshop - Discovering what the Ancient Egyptians believe about the afterlife, take part in a funeral procession and race against the clock to prepare your own mummy with our Egyptian rag doll mummy! The children then had a go at Egyptian bread making, Egyptian dancing and finished off with a delicious feast, ‘The bread is so good!’

We have really enjoyed our shape topic in maths this term, naming polygons, finding their properties, exploring symmetry and constructing our own shapes.

No wind called for badminton outside! Year 4 loved playing around the world to making sure the shuttlecock didn’t hit the floor.

This term the children in Year 4 have been reading and performing a play in French called Les Quatres Amis. They have learnt the animal names and described how they move. They performed the play this week for Reception and did really well learning their lines and saying them as a group. Some children mimed the actions whilst the others read the lines. Here are some photos of our performance.

We have been looking at Romero Britto's Neo-pop style and created our own South American animals in his style.

In English we are reading the inspirational story ‘Ada’s Violin’ by Susan Hill all about The Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay. We have been delving into the vocabulary with a variety of challenges, creating timelines of the events in the text and script writing using the story as our stimulus.