In Lower 4 Literacy, the children are currently studying the newspaper genre.  We have recently been concentrating on the use of fact and opinion in news stories.  These pictures show the children role playing a television news interview. Each group had an anchor person, a reporter and a number of interviewees.  The stories covered included ‘Pop Star Shock!’ and ‘Flying Saucer lands in Dorset Village!’, which created some fascinating coverage on our 6 o’clock news shows.  Judging by the quality of some of the presenters, Harry Gration should watch his back! 

Lower IV are currently studying skeletons as part of topic 4A Moving and Growing. The children, who had previously studied the skeletons of whales. monkeys, elephants and various rodents were building their own replicas of the human skeleton. As the pictures show the children had great fun and produced some stunning work! Next, the children will be learning about creatures with liquid skeletons, such as earthworms. Thankfully the lesson is not until after lunch!

Lower IV are currently working hard in Design Technology on their Moving Storybooks Project.  The children have already investigated several mechanisms - pulleys, pivots, pop ups and levers - in preparation for designing and creating their own book.  These pictures show the children having great fun honing their skills by creating pop-up creatures of various descriptions.

As part of Lower IV’s work on solids and liquids, the children undertook an experiment to investigate the viscosity of different liquids.
Once they had done this, they performed the same experiment online using their interactive whiteboard.