On Tuesday 11th March Year 4 enjoyed a visit from Science Buddies where we completed investigations linked to our Sound topic. We learned how sounds are made and how to change the volume of sounds by increasing the number of vibrations. We also used sound meters to measure how the level of sound changes when a stop watch is insulated. We tried a variety of materials and concluded that cotton wool is the best insulator.
A group of 12 year 4 girls had a brilliant time playing matches at Washington Football Hub.
The girls played excellently with each other showing great team spirit and were very successful in their matches.
Everyone at Biddick Hall Junior school enjoyed World Book Day 2025. We were lucky to have a visit from author Pauline Waters.
4CL had a brilliant time at Jarrow Hall. We found out all about burials and battles.
We handled different artefacts and even took part in our own ferocious battle.
We enjoyed meeting the animals on farm and listening to the story of Beowulf around the fire in the Great Hall.
4KJ visited Jarrow Hall on Tuesday 11th February. We had great fun investigating Anglo Saxon settlements and a farm and loved meeting the animals. We also found out more about Anglo Saxon religious beliefs and burials and had the opportunity to look at weapons from the period. The day ended with a fierce battle.
On Number Day we came into school wearing a number and did LOADS of fun things linked to Maths! Throughout the school, we did activities including solving a theft by solving logic puzzles; graffiti maths where we wrote down everything we knew about maths on large sheets of paper; investigating spirals and how to make different patterns by following an algorithm; playing maths games and puzzles with each other and we did some active maths where we danced around the room solving addition and subtraction problems as well as lots of other activities. We had such good fun and realised that there’s more to maths than just numbers!!
On Friday 13th December 30 children from Year 4 attended the “Skip into Christmas” skipping festival at Temple Park. The children took part in a variety of skipping activities to develop fitness and have fun. We all had a great time and loved learning new skills.
4CL visited the Sunderland Wintergardens. We investigated the layers of the rainforest thinking about animals and plants.
We walked around answering questions to follow a trail. This was followed by sketching and colouring the plants.
Afterwards we went into Mowbray Park and completed questionnaires with members of the public about how they use the park.
We all had a fantastic day.
Father Mervyn joined us to celebrate our Harvest Festival at Biddick Hall Junior school. Thanks you to all our parents and carers who donated food items. They were distributed to two local foodbanks. They were very grateful that you shared your harvest gifts with them.
This week in Science Council we all met together and created chemical reactions between bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to create some spooky potions. We also had a special visitor, Mrs Hayward, who came in to meet us and help.
