Blog by Tag: Hedgehogs

In writing this term, we have been looking at the story of Odysseus. This week, we learnt about his adventures again the Sirens. We wrote instructions using conjunctions, about how Odysseus's sailors were able to avoid falling into the Sirens' trap. Then, we looked at Margaret Atwood's poem Siren…

In maths this week, we have been applying our multiplication knowledge. We have been challenging our learning of commutativity, thinking about multiplication and division fact families. We have secured our understanding of multiplying and dividing a number by 1 and itself, as well as having a go…

In music this term, we have been looking at a piece of music that is inspired by rivers. This week, we started to unpick the different elements of the music, thinking about what we could hear. Next week, we will finish this lesson by learning more of the vocabulary, before composing our own piece…

This term in French, we have been learning about clothes and adjectives to describe them. We've had to think carefully about the order of our sentences/words, as well as recalling our knowledge of colour. Luckily, we've got Mrs Gill to help us out, as she's excellent at speaking…

In PSHE this week, we have been understanding influences. It was really interesting hearing the children's favourite celebrities: everyone from Taylor Swift, footballers to Jesus, Paul Hollywood and Stephen Mulhern! 

This week in geography, we have been learning about multi-cultural Cardiff. We have learnt about the yearly Mela Festival they have and how it celebrates different cultures and ethnicities, to bring everyone together. As our task, we designed a poster to advertise next year's…

Mr Taylor would like to say a very big well done to the Year 4 team, for a poignant Remembrance Assembly. The children wrote some thought-provoking poems in groups which they shared during the assembly, alongside some lovely art work depicting poppies in Flanders Fields. 

In computing this term, Team Hedgehogs have looked at different ways of staying safe online. We have looked at making sure we can find information we can trust, as well as how we would give credit for information we find online. We also discussed cyberbullying and learned some top tips for staying…

In science this week, Team Hedgehogs became poo detectives! We had to study pictures of different animal poo samples, and see what evidence we could find in there. This helped us decide on their diet and then we had to choose which of the 10 animals could have made the poo! It was disgusting,…

This week, the children have consolidated their learning on their unit of Christianity and the family of Jesus. They've thought about why the stories they've learnt about are important to Christians. 

We have had an awesome day in Team Hedgehogs. We worked in partners to build a Lego fairground. Then, we programmed it to different speeds. Mr Anderson was so impressed, that we were able to do some extra challenges. We added music and sounds to our ride as it spun. The afternoon was even…

In history, we have been learning about the Roman Republic and the Punic Wars. Last week, we looked at Hannibal and how unstoppable he seemed to the Romans. This week, we learnt about a Roman leader called Scipio, who came up with a clever plan to defeat Hannibal and the…