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Telephone: 0117 903 0077

Email: airballoonhillp@bristol-schools.uk

Headteacher: Tim Browse

Year 4

Welcome to Year 4!

Miss Huish, Mrs Laird, Mr Barker, Miss Andrews and Miss Boulton are our Year 4 teachers.

Our Spring Inquiry Project is That’s Entertainment! (a Tomorrow’s World special report).  The children have been commissioned by the BBC to create a special 21st century edition episode of Tomorrow’s World on ‘entertainment’ to study the impact technology has had on leisure time in the 20th century.

The children will use historical sources to explore how technological advances changed leisure activities throughout the 20th century. They will explore advances in living memory through discussions with older generations and will delve deeper using historical artefacts to gain an understanding of how technology has shaped the world we live in today. They will develop their scientific skills to understand how circuits are used to power electrical devices. They will then understand how sound is created and explore how electrical devices transmit sound. In art they will explore the evolution of digital animation and study the work of David Hockney to learn how he has embraced the use of technology when creating art.

We are very excited to have a trip to the Playback Arcade in Bristol on 22nd and 23rd January learn about retro arcade games, pinball machines and other video and board games

As part of our project, we will also be undertaking a Diversity Case Study on Marie Van Brittan Brown. Marie lived in Queens, New York in the 1960s and worked as a nurse, she was often home alone due to her husband’s working patterns and with rising crime rates in their neighbourhood, the police not always to be relied upon to respond quickly. With the help of her husband, Marie pioneered the first ever home-security system, complete with early CCTV cameras and alarms.

Spelling Bee:

Our Spelling Bee words in Term 4 are: Y4 Spelling Bee T4 If you would like a paper copy of the words, please as the class teacher.

Other Key Information for Term 4:

This term, PE is as follows:
 
Orion – Indoor Tuesday and Outdoor Thursday
Aquila, Pegasus and Phoenix – Indoor Thursday and Outdoor Monday
 
 
If anyone would like to come in to help, listen to readers, share a particular skill/interest, has a job that links well with our Inquiry project, please contact your class teacher and collect a volunteer pack from the school office.
 

Parent Presentations

If you were unable to come to our Parent Presentation on 12th September, you can download a copy of the slides here:

Y4 Meet the Teacher

If you have any questions about the presentation, slides or Year 4, please speak to your child’s teacher or email airballoonhillp@bristol-schools.uk

Hall Displays

 

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