This week year 4 students were lucky enough to take part in a video call with the year 4 students at Kirk-Sandall primary school in Doncaster, England. The two classes have a common interest, MISB students are studying the UK…
In our grand finale of a history lesson last week, Year 4 and their teacher went through various legal systems from Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon England, the Tudors, the Georgians, Queen Victoria and modern times. We learned about the early courts,…
Back in March, at the beginning of the lock-down, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles issued a challenge: find a favourite piece of art, and copy it, using whatever household items you have. Our Year 4 students responded with a…
Year 4's SPAG Story Transformation class: from a flat, boring narrative to interesting and lively one: what are the tools for entertaining, high quality writing? Well, first there are the words. Stories need adjectives, lots of rich and juicy adjectives. Similes…
In our class today, students were shown an experiment where liquid changes to gas and blows up a balloon, without anyone using their own breath. Students had to explain the results (the balloon inflating, attached to a bottle with vinegar…
Students from year 4 have been reading “Arthur and Golden Rope” from the wonderful Power of Reading scheme. It’s a great book, infused with Norse mythology and plenty of fantasy and adventure! We decided as a class to create “descendants”…
