Year 4 - Barn Owl

Carnival! October 2025

We’ve been working hard this term to design and create our very own Venetian-style carnival masks — each one unique and full of colour and creativity!

As part of our celebration, we’ve also written and published Haikus and Cinquains inspired by the magic of carnivals and the excitement of fireworks - carnival, Guy Fawkes and Diwali.

We’re so proud of our work and can’t wait to share our creations with you. We hope you enjoy our contribution to the carnival parade!

Owl Watercolour Paintings October 2025

We have sketched and painted these wonderful owls inspired by the wildlife artist, Robert Fuller.

Y4 and Y2 Science & Computing October 2025

The children from Year 4 helped the children from Year 2 to log on and use j2edata Branch to create branch databases to sort and group animals according to their characteristics.

Y2 Y4 Computing October 2025

Owl Visit September 25

Today we had a very special visit from North Somerset Birds of Prey who brought in four owls to share with us.

We got to meet Dotty, the little owl who is one of the smallest owls in the country, as well as Hercules the European Eagle Owl.

We also met Inca the Barn Owl and Cerberus the Tawny Owl. We were amazed to learn that Barn Owls do not have waterproof feathers so cannot hunt food in the rain and that Tawny Owls are the only owls that make the iconic ‘Twit-twoo’ sound.

Noah's Ark Trip July 25

What a great day we had today at Noah's Ark Zoo. We saw elephants, capybaras, zebras, giraffes, camels, gibbons, meerkats, snakes and much more. We wowed our hosts with our knowledge and understanding of the rainforest during our workshops and got to meet a Madagascan Hissing Cockroach, a Leaf Insect and a Python up close.

BO Noahs Ark 25

Health and Sports Week June 25

What a fantastic Health and Sports week!

We kicked off with a visit from Laz to show us his fabulous basketball skills.

Then we had a week of health and well-being activities, including yoga, benchball, sun safety, water safety, road safety, multisport, table tennis, orienteering, Just Dance, cricket, tag rugby, tennis, circuits, archery, rugby, football skills, javelin and lots more!

We ended this amazing week with sports day, when everyone had a fun filled day taking part in a carousel of activities and our races.

Health and Sports Week Y4

Multiplication Tables Check Preparation - May 25

We are so excited to be practising our times tables in readiness for the Multiplication Table Check that we will be completing after half term.

We have been using lots of different skills to aid our practice like booklets, practice quizzes, fact sheets and flashcards! It has been really exciting to get to do this every morning.

Y4 MTC

Using our Talk Tactics to Persuade- April 25

Today we came back after playtime to find our chairs had been removed! We had to use our oracy skills to persuade our teacher to let us have them back. Using our talk tactics we gave reasons why we should have our chairs back, instigating new ideas, encouraging and building and challenging each others' arguments. When we finally persuaded her, we used our skills to debate other topics.

Science - Circuits March 25

Today, we have created circuits and focused on how insulators and conductors impact the current of electricity flowing through them.

World Book Day March 25

What a wonderful World Book Day we have had!

We shared our costumes and spoke about our characters, shared our character descriptions with Year 3 and used non-fiction texts to read for information learning more about the Terrible Tudors.

We also did "Drop everything and read!"

Don't forget to use your voucher for a new book!

WBD TO 25

Safer Internet Day February 2025

Today was Safer Internet Day!

We started by reading some very interesting news articles which turned out to be fake!

We then learnt all about fake news, why they are made and how to spot/avoid them! We put this information into posters to support others who may not know about fake news already.

Science Week 25

What a fantastic week we've had!

We had a workshop from real engineers and learned about how submarines are able to float and sink using carefully controlled buoyancy, we learned about animal adaptations and camouflage and designed climate-change and extreme weather proof houses. Thank you to everyone that came to our showcase and Science fair.

Science Week Y4 25

Children's Mental Health Week : February 2025

We have used the characters from Inside Out to help us to explore our feelings. We created personality islands and drew self portraits showing our feelings.

Cricket Workshop

This half term, we have been lucky enough to have lessons from cricket coach Will. We have become excellent bowlers, batters, fielders and team-players.

Cricket 25 Y4

Somerset Waste Workshop

Today we had a visit from Somerset Waste. We learned all about how to Reduce, Re-use and Recycle, as well as what happens to our waste after it is collected. We then investigated how long different materials take to decompose and how we can make positive changes to help our environment.

Waste Workshop Y4

Bridgwater Primary Schools Sports Association Athletics Event

19 children from Y4 were invited to take part in a variety of track and field events in a friendly competition against other local schools. The children had a great time running relays, obstacle races, throwing balls and javelins and lots of different jumps. We were so proud of the effort, achievement and sporting attitude of the children that attended. Well done!

Athletics Y4

Science Investigation

This morning, Year 4 took advantage of the cold weather and went outside with thermometers and magnifying glasses to observe water in different states of matter.

We also compared the temperature of the air in our classroom, the air outside and the air on the ground.

What a lot of fun!