Welcome to Sri Lanka Class!

We are a class of 25 Year 4 children and our teacher is Mrs Sanderson

Please keep looking at our page to see our learning journey as we take on the challenges of Year 4 together!

Our PE day is  - Thursday

We go swimming on - Friday (In Summer Term Only, selected children only)

Homework (Spellings for a test on Friday & TTRS) is handed out on - Monday

This half term, our English learning is based around the text 'MacBeth'. Our first 'unit' developed our writing skills so that we could include fronted adverbials and use appropriate past tense verbs (irregular ones!). Take a look at some of our writing! (These are on display outside of our classroom, and everyone's is included)

In Spring, Sri Lanka class are using paint and mixed media with a focus on light and dark

In our first lesson we analysed different painting techniques, compared paintings by artists according to elements such as texture or colour and practising created tints and shades when colour mixing.

Our second lesson was all about exploring how to create 3D shapes using light and dark colours. We had to think about where the light was coming from and which areas of our image would be lighter and darker. We used our skills of colour mixing from last week to create the tones in between.

In preparation for the Annual Christmas Craft Fayre, Sri Lanka prepared a beautiful reindeer hanging decoration, packs of home made chocolate 'bombs' and counted out the number of sweets for our customers to guess!

Exploring Frame Structures

In this lesson we explored different frame structures to test which are the most stable using spaghetti and blue tack

Pavilion Frame

Then, using the design brief, we built a strong frame structure for a pavilion using a range of materials.

Pavilion Cladding

Finally, we experimented with different decorative techniques and materials to clad a pavilion structure.

This term, alongside swimming, Sri Lanka class have been developing their Orienteering skills! It was great fun!

In Geography, we have been learning how our local woodland is used. We visited Drinkfield Marsh in October where we asked the public questions from our questionnaire (qualitative data) and tallyed how people were using the Marsh when we were there (qualitative data). When we returned to school we created a graph of our results to find out that people use the marsh for exercise, walking dogs and relaxing!

In October, Year 4 hosted their annual Harvest Festival Assembly. We invited our families to donate food to our local food bank as part of this celebration at the same time as learning all about Harvest around the world.

This week, we used tone to make an observational line drawing look three dimensional and exploring different gradients of pencil.

Today, we applied an understanding of tone to the technique of hatching; using pattern and contrast when creating a mixed-media drawing based on the collage compositions from last lesson

Then we showcased our learning from across the unit by working as a class to create giant prints inspired by their collages and wax-resist drawings.