Year 4 enjoyed an afternoon of 'Platinum Time' this afternoon as they celebrated the Queen's jubilee with year 3. During the day they learnt about the reign of Queen Elizabeth and made decorations ready for the party.

Year 4 had an amazing day on Wednesday when we spent the whole day pretending that we lived in a Roman town in Britain. In the photo you can see some of our soldiers marching and protecting the town from Celtic uprisings as we carried out our tasks. We had many jobs including making clay lamps and pots, crushing olives to make oil for the lamps, creating mosaics, designing frescos, crushing charcoal for writing, making wax tablets, making jewellery and creating medicines and beauty treatments at the bath house. Many thanks to the parents and older sibling helpers who made all these activities possible. Read on to find out what we did in the afternoon.

We have reached the end of our core text, Kensuke's Kingdom. An emotional roller-coaster of a book with an equally emotional ending (I won't give it away but do ask your child to explain why it is both happy and sad). The children have written their last piece of work based on this book which documented the change in the relationship between our two main characters. Read more to find out about other learning from this week and to get a hint of what we will be writing about next week...

Year 4 have learned how to make sushi this week as part of our final day focusing on Japan.

Michael, the hero of our class book Kensuke's Kingdom, has fallen overboard and is now washed up on an island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. How will he survive? Year 4 could give him some advice with the survival guides they have written this week.

The children in Year 4 have been working scientifically and have set up an investigation which they hope will allow them to draw some conclusions on what happens to our teeth if we don't look after them properly.