Year 4 have had a very busy half term. Our brand new topic ‘Rolling on a River’ has included lots of fun activities such as working with Dwr Cymru to plan and build pipework to transport water around a town and learning abut the life cycle of a salmon.

So far in this topic, the children have enjoyed being ‘river detectives’ and have produced excellent reports about rivers around the world. They also enjoyed writing poetry about rivers and exploring water on our ‘Discover & Do’ hook day! 

In STEM we have found out about lifecycles, food chains and food webs. We have also been learning about the negative effects of plastic pollution and did a litter pick in our school grounds. We then used the rubbish we collected to make a physical bar chart representing the data!

We loved finding out more about our local River Usk. We discovered that Newport has the largest tidal range of any city centre in the world! It can be as much as 14.5 metres! What a creative and knowledgeable bunch of children we have!  

In Maths we have been working hard on a range of skills. These include, calculating tenths and decimals, adding amounts of money and finding change, and working to gain our times tables bands. We were able to practise all of these skills when we visited the trailer!  We looked carefully at the menu, chose up to 3 items and then added the prices together to find the total.  Next, we had to calculate the change from £2.  The Year 6 ‘helpers’ were so impressed that we’d done all the hard work for them!

During PE sessions we have been perfecting our Sports’ Day skills.

What a fun filled half term we’ve had!