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...

Will it float!?

Will it float!?

This week in Shireen class, we’ve been diving into the world of floating and sinking—and what a splash we’ve made! We kicked off our learning with a fun science experiment, exploring a range of everyday objects to see which would float and which would sink. Before...

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...