Year 4: “Explorers”

Year 4: “Explorers”

This half term, Year 4 have been learning about famous explorers in history and geography, focusing on polar adventurers like Ernest Shackleton or Matthew Henson. In English, we read Ice Trap!, the gripping true story of Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition, using it to...
Tasting tea, making bread and volcanic eruptions

Tasting tea, making bread and volcanic eruptions

This half term, we read Cloud Tea Monkeys. This book is about a girl named Tashi who lives in a village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living. In our first lesson, we got to taste different types of tea. We discussed the appearance, aroma, flavour...