Silkstone Primary School, High Street, Silkstone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 4LR

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Silkstone Primary School

A School with Soul

Welcome to Class Four 

 

Class 4 will be taught by Mrs Dolan and Mrs Ruddock.  Whilst Mrs Ruddock is on Maternity Leave Miss Sivakumaran will be teaching the class on Thursday and Fridays.  Our Teaching Assistant is Mrs Hopewell. 

 

 

Academic Year 2024-2025

Our Curriculum Map for the Spring Term

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We are Designers

We designed and carefully cut out and sewed these beautiful stockings for Christmas.

We are Poets

Creating and performing Shape Poetry.

We are Artists

Creating shape painting using masking tape.

Developing animation in Computing

We are Romans

We had a fabulous day living as Roman soldiers at Murton Park.   

We are Artists

We created Still Life collages inspired by Paul Cezanne.

We are Writers

We are using drama to help us develop our characters and settings in our writing.

We are Scientists

We explored our school grounds to find minibeasts as part of our learning in science and recorded our findings carefully.

Mile Run

We all did our best to run a mile around the school to raise funds for Epilepsy Action.  We were really proud of our achievement.

Curriculum Map Autumn 2024

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Academic Year 2023-2024

Mini Mudder

We were covered in mud and had a brilliant time on the Mini Mudder Challenge.

Sports Day

We had a great time at Sports Day, taking part in lots of races and cheering on our friends.

D.T. Moving Monsters 

Class 4 have been looking at pneumatic mechanisms and created their own moving monsters.

Year 4 Cricket

Year 4 enjoyed learning different cricket skills.

Summer Term Curriculum Overview

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We are Scientists
States of Matter - Investigating particle movement in solids. liquids and gases. To help us to understand how the particles behave in solid materials, liquids and gases we worked collaboratively using our bodies to represent the different states. Some of us were particles in a solid. Some of us were particles in a liquid and some of us represented the particles in a gas. 
Which chocolate will melt the fastest? In Y4 we have investigated the effects of temperature on different chocolate types to find out which chocolate melts the quickest. We predicted, we identified what would make a fair test, we carried out the investigation in small groups, we compared our results and concluded our findings. We had a great afternoon! 

Curriculum Plan for the Spring Term

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Father Christmas

We all enjoyed having a chat with Father Christmas when he visited us.

Learning in Science

As Scientists we have been investigating living things and their habitats in our school grounds.

Murton Park

We had a wonderful day at Murton Park learning what daily life was like for Romans in Britain.

Art 

We have been developing our drawing skills using pen and ink to create still life pictures in our sketch books.

Curriculum Information for the Autumn Term

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Macmillan Run

Year 4 did really well with their run for Macmillan everyone tried really hard.

Skipping

Year 4 really enjoyed it when Dan the skipping man came in and taught them lots of different skills.