Yet another very busy term for Year 4! Learning about the history of transport has been really insightful and to help reinforce the children’s learning, we took a trip to the Dover Transport Museum. There was everything from children’s scooters to open-top double decker buses. The children even made their own badges and got to ride on the miniature railway!.

This term, we have been reading ‘The Polar Express’ by Chris van Allsburg. We have used this book as the basis for setting and character descriptions with a focus on feelings, and writing our own alternative endings to the story. We have also written an information report about George Stephenson, an incredible engineer who strongly influenced the development of the railways.

In our maths learning this term, we have been learning all about multiplication and division. We have been focusing on skills to help with all our times tables and have been applying the times tables facts to solve problems. For example, if we know 3 x 7 then we also know 30 x 7 and 300 x 7.

In Science, as budding scientists, we have been learning all about electricity by identifying common appliances that run on electricity, understanding the differences between renewable and non-renewable sources of electricity and constructing a simple series of electrical circuits, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs and switches.

In DT, we have been learning about bridges and their structures and purposes. We then went on to plan, create, test and evaluate our own bridges.

The children worked really hard this term on showcasing their learning on Flourish Day.