Year 4

Unfamiliar vocabulary

Mar 11, 2025 | English, Year 4

We are asking questions about unfamiliar vocabulary from the text. We know we can use a dictionary to help our understanding.

Using Google to locate cities

Mar 11, 2025 | Geography, Year 3, Year 4

Which cities are nearest to Barnsley? We are showing fantastic collaboration!

Tag rugby – travelling

Mar 10, 2025 | PE and Sport, Year 3, Year 4

We develop our ability to move forwards to score a try.

World Book Day- Whomping Willow

Mar 7, 2025 | English, Year 3, Year 4

We explored the poem book ‘The Lost Words’. We explored the word ‘willow’ for our WBD activities. We were fascinated by the whomping willow from the Harry Potter series.

Reading preferences

Mar 7, 2025 | English, Year 3, Year 4

We have had lots of discussion about our favourite books. We thought about our reading preferences and noticed who had similar or different preferences.

We are learning to effectively apply our passing skills to keep possession. We worked in teams to practise our chest passes. We looked at passing through the gate with fewer and fewer passes. We also worked as attackers and defenders to pass effectively and to...

Creating questions

Mar 5, 2025 | Philosophy, Year 3, Year 4

We looked at the text 'How rude!' as our stimulus. We identified big ideas from this text and created questions to discuss. The class voted on one question to discuss. We then agreed or disagreed respectfully. Amazing work Armstrongs! [gallery type="rectangular"...

Using an atlas

Mar 5, 2025 | Geography, Year 3, Year 4

We know the structural features of an atlas. We used the index to identify major cities of the U.K on a map.

Apostrophes for plural possession

Mar 4, 2025 | English, Year 4

We explored different rules when using a possessive apostrophe for plural nouns.

Comparing predictions

Mar 4, 2025 | English, Year 4

We have compared our predictions about the cover and the blurb using a Venn diagram. Some of us have used this evidence to change our predictions.

Tag rugby- Attacking

Mar 3, 2025 | PE and Sport, Year 3, Year 4

We explore how attackers can create space, creating opportunities for the ball carrier to pass if they are tagged.

Basketball Lesson 1

Mar 1, 2025 | PE and Sport, Year 4

We are learning to refine our dribbling in order to keep control and possession of the ball. We practised our dribbling skills in the hall in house teams. We then worked as attackers and defenders to put our dribbling skills in to action. [gallery type="rectangular"...

Tag Rugby – Tagging

Feb 27, 2025 | PE and Sport, Year 3, Year 4

LO: To understand the purpose of tagging, when, where and why this is applied during a game.

Tag Rugby

Feb 25, 2025 | PE and Sport, Year 4

Lesson 1 We are developing our passing and moving to create space to beat an opponent. We have practised our passing skills for the start of our tag rugby learning. We have learnt that we cannot pass forwards and we have loomed at creating the W shape with our hands...