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Tudor dancing and singing at Sutton House

Today Year 4 went on (another!)fantastic trip, this time to Sutton House. It was a great follow up to our work at All Hallows last month. We gave a tour of the house (using the amazing knowledge we have already from previous visits), before rehearsing a concert for the royal Anne Boleyn. In the afternoon some of us were lucky enough to dress up in Tudor costume, and we all took part in the concert with the songs and dances we had learnt in the morning session.

Science this term: Variation and Classification

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Making vocal music with Apollo 5

Today Year 4 went on a fantastic trip to the Gresham Centre in Central London to take part in a vocal music workshop with the incredible Apollo 5. Apollo 5 are a British a cappella group and they taught us how to make fantastic vocal music. Check out the photographs and video links below!

What did you enjoy most about the day?

Exploring our local area

This afternoon year 4 went out to explore the local area. We had great fun looking at features of the area and we did our own traffic survey on Kingsland Road too.

What did you notice on the walk?

When we returned to school we plotted our route on a street atlas and looked for other places we know and love using grid references.
 

 

In literacy we looked at fact and opinion and wrote our own facts and opinions about Hackney. We were inspired by this fantastic video showing East London from the air... check it out!

 

Next stop is India ... we will be travelling virtually of course!

Our science topic this term

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Happy Easter!

We've had a fantastic Spring Term in Year 4 and children have worked very hard - well done to all of you!

Yesterday we celebrated with our Spring bonnet parade. Thank you for making such wonderful bonnets and showing them off to the school.

Have a very restful holiday and I look forward to seeing you all in a few weeks time, ready for the action packed Summer term!

Miss Perry

Quizzes on Scratch

This term we have been using the Scratch software in ICT to create our own quizzes. We began by making a maths quiz, before moving on to design our own Tudor quiz.

Click on the links below to  have a go at our fantastic quizzes!

http://scratch.mit.edu/users/Emerald4/

Easter Homework

Year 4 have been given the following homework tasks for the Easter break:

Book Review
Spellings
Numeracy - Revision of topics we've been doing in class this term
Topic task - What I love about Hackney! This is in preparation for our geography based topic in the summer term, Incredible India. This should be completed in the yellow topic book.

Children have also been given a permission slip for our upcoming visit to the British Museum in May. Please return this to me asap.

In addition, I have assigned some homework tasks on Education City (www.educationcity.com). Each child has a username and password to login to Education City and access these tasks and many more. These particular tasks are optional at this stage - I would like to know how children get on with these, if they prefer doing homework in this way etc. I may then use it more often in the summer term, depending on feedback.

Have a fantastic Easter break!
Miss Perry

Sayib and Liona's fantastic times tables quiz!