Year 4

Yesterday, Year 4 children took part in a quiz in teams as part of their Active Planet Exit Point. They cooperated with their team members to answer questions all about their learning in this unit and did a great job sharing their knowledge! Due to yesterday’s traffic chaos, we decided to delay the other half of their Exit Point and they will now present their volcano research findings on Monday morning. Hope you can join us to hear all about their...

For our unit on the Eiffel Tower, years 3 and 4 had the chance to learn how to draw the famous monument with Mercy Kagia, a Kenyan artist who organised exhibitions in Nairobi, Germany, South Corea and Italy. After learning a lot about its construction, we invited the students to a virtual trip on the Eiffel Tower thanks to VR Cardboards. What an amazing experience! They loved it and asked for more!! ...

In our IPC unit ‘Active Planet’, we’ve been learning all about earthquakes. Today in our lesson we did a D&T project and made our own seismographs. A seismograph is an instrument used to detect and record earthquakes. It is made of a mass attached to a fixed base. During an earthquake, the base moves and the mass does not. Here are some photos of our designs so far.   ...

On 29th October Ambrosoli held the first Interschools KS2 Maths Day and some of our year 3 and 4 children were involved. They spent the day making friends, solving problems, explaining their ideas and discussing maths activities. Well done to all those how took part. We will be using lots of the problem solving tasks in class so that all the children can benefit from the day. ...

We visited BaseCamp in Jinja for our Year 4 residential trip last week. We did lots of experiments related to our IPC unit ‘Active Planet’ and wrote our diaries each day. We also visited an organic farm and learnt about how to farm without using chemicals or pesticides. Here are a few photos from our trip and we will tell you more when we finish our letter-writing unit in English.  ...

During our school open morning the children focused on the idea of Ambrosoli in the Future. The year 3s reflected on their prior learning about the history of schools in England and Uganda. They then planned a future Ambrosoli building using an ICT app and created a  poster presentation. The year 4s also planned a future Ambrosoli but for when their own children would be at school. They thought about how the timetable and lessons would change. They also created their school...

We were very lucky, in Year 4, to have two guest speakers share their experiences with us of working in humanitarian response to natural disasters. We learnt about what their jobs involve, what some of the challenges are and how their work links to our Personal Learning Goals here at Ambrosoli. The children then used the ideas they had heard from our guest speakers to form their own international organisation and write...