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Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

As you can see we're always working hard in Year 4! Be sure to read our Year 4 Weekly Newsletter to find out all about what we've been learning.

Enjoying a game of senet

An Egyptian banquet fit for a pharaoh... or our Year 1 Special Friends!

Egyptian potters and jewellery makers!

Year 4 Newsletter 27th June

Newsletter 27.6.pdf

Year 4 Trip to the Hancock Museum

A small selection from the thousands of photographs our keen historians and explorers captured when we visited the Hancock Museum! The children, and adults, had a great time at this fantastic museum. We learnt an awful lot about the Ancient Egyptians by exploring the exhibit and participating in a 'Land of the Pharaohs' workshop. We enjoyed the glorious weather outside (and got a quick practice in for the Skipping Festival!) and then had a brilliant time looking around the other exhibits. Be sure to ask us all about it! Check out the link below to see what's on at the Hancock Museum at the moment.

Hancock Museum: The Great North Museum

Year 4 Newsletter 13th June

Newsletter 13.6.pdf

Year 4 Newsletter 6th June

Newsletter 6.6.pdf

Circuits and Electricity

Sports Poetry

Year 4 Newsletter 16th May

Newsletter 16.5.pdf

Year 4 Newsletter 9th May

Newsletter 9.5.pdf

Year 4 Newsletter 2nd May 2014

Newsletter 2.5.pdf

Year 4 Newsletter 25th April 2014

Newsletter 25.4.pdf

Pyramid Building - Forces and Friction

Science Safety Posters

Year 4 Pyramid Building Challenge!

First we found about Zoser's (or Djoser's) step pyramid. We discovered that it was built for pharaoh Zoser by his architect Imhotep. Before this pharaohs had been buried in mastabas. The ancient Egyptians believed that the pyramid was like a gigantic stairway for the pharaoh to join the sun god in the sky! Our challenge was to work in pairs and build a six-step pyramid. We could choose which type of blocks we used. We shared pyramid building tips throughout the lesson. As you can see all of our pyramids are different! We really enjoyed this challenge. We completed an evaluation sheet which included working out some really tricky calculations. We came to the conclusion that it must have been much harder to build an actual pyramid with huge sandstone blocks in the blazing sun!