Waterstones Book Trip
Four children from Year 4 had a lovely afternoon selecting books for our book corner. Our surprise trip to Waterstones was to spend reward money for doing so much reading last term and being top of the school reading chart! We asked the class for their choices and tried to buy a variety of genres…
Bridge Bakes Bread
Everyone in Year 4 hopes that you were able to enjoy the bread that we made last week? Making bread was great fun and linked nicely with our Science topic of Changing Materials and also with our DT project of product design. We wonder if anyone will make bread over half term? Take care everyone…
Glorious gases
Our Science this term has been all about ‘changing materials.’ We have investigated how some changes such as freezing ice are reversible and some changes are irreversible like boiling an egg. Today we investigated chemical reactions. We filled a lemonade bottle with yeast, sugar and measured warm…
Year 4 field trips into Bridge village
Year 4 have a enjoyed two separate field trips into Bridge and the surrounding countryside. We followed a map and identified various different places. We walked quite a long way on the first trip and could see the whole of Bridge from the top of the hill which was a great view. We could see the…
Brilliant baking!
Today Year 4 had a great time making bread as part of our Science. A few weeks ago we investigated how yeast makes bread rise by putting sugar, yeast and hot water into a lemonade bottle. We put a balloon over the top and watched it blow up with carbon dioxide! It was amazing to see. We then…
Remembrance Poetry
Today, after our whole school Remembrance Service, Year 4 read poems by two of our favourite poets: Roger Stevens and Brian Moses. The book is called 'What are we fighting for?' We then brainstormed the qualities of a soldier. Some of the qualities were brave, kind, trustworthy, loyal,…
Year 4 Trip to Roman Museum
Year 4 had a fantastic trip to the Dover Museum where we learnt all about Romans. The day started with a clay work shop where we all made a Roman soldier. We learnt that they were not allowed facial hair and had to have ear protectors in case their ears got sliced off in battle! The next activity…
