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Year 4 - IPC - Explorers and Adventurers

Welcome back to Year Four!

Our exciting new IPC topic this half term is 'Explorers and Adventurers'. During our Entry point, Year 4 went on their own adventure. We discussed the qualities adventurers need in order to overcome adversity, the children realised the importance of our schools Personal Goals, especially Resilience and Co-operation. We ‘broke the chains’ of the pirates by working together, then escaped them by ‘crossing the river’ making sure to take the ‘stepping stones’ along as we went and avoiding the river! Then, we collected water by guiding our blind teammate.

Following this activity, we created artistic versions of possible adventures we would like to go on using water painting, colouring and fine cutting! Finally, we looked closely at Sir Ranulph Fiennes amazing Trans globe expedition, plotting the route on a map and discussing how he managed to spend 3 years on such a tough journey. The children had an amazing time exploring their new topic in different ways

Maths

This half term, we will be using our knowledge of addition and subtraction to solve problems using the mental and written methods. We will also be presenting and interpreting data in the form of bar models and charts. We will be focusing on the 11 times table this half term and will be exploring this through a range of activities.

English

Our Power of Reading book this half term is The Polar Bear Explorers' Club by Alex Bell. The story follows curious Stella Starflake Pearl as she seeks adventure and dreams of becoming the first female explorer to join The Polar Bear Explorers' Club. Alongside learning about our IPC topic of Adventurers and Explorers, we will be learning how to develop creative and imaginative writing by adopting a range of roles, as well as plan and structure informal and formal letters.

Science

Throughout our new topic 'Electricity' we will be identifying common appliances that run on electricity and how to use these safety and sensibly. We will construct our own simple circuits and will be investigating the difference between an open and closed circuit.