Year 4: Blog items
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 2:39pm
This week we started our maths with an assembly based on the book 'How mahy jelly beans?' by Andrea Menotti.
Year 4 then took part in a 'jelly bean' based maths lesson recapping their statistics skills. The children used a tally chart to collect data. The children found which jelly bean flavour was most popular and created a bar chart graph to show. Finally, the children analysed the graph to answer questions based on the data collected.
Year 4 - Safer Internet Day 2025
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 11:48am
This year's theme: Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online.
We started the day with an assembly, then back in class we watched a live lesson which had lots of tips about how to remain safe online and not be drawn in by scammers and phishers. We learned how to spot scams and how to make sure our passwords online were strong.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am
Last Monday some of our KS2 children wowed audiences in The Winter Gardens for Schools Alive. The children have worked incredibly hard since September to create a piece called ‘We are all in this together!’. They should be very proud of all they achieved, well done!
Date: 4th Feb 2025 @ 3:59pm
This week is RSE week. Our theme for RSE in Year 4 is puberty. We split into a class of girls and a class of boys so that everyone felt comfortable talking about their own puberty journey. Both classes learnt about both male and female puberty. We started the lesson by looking at the lifecycle and deciding where in the lifecycle we think puberty happens. Then we looked at how female and male bodies change on the outside as well as on the inside.
Date: 4th Feb 2025 @ 3:56pm
This week, we had a go at composing our own music using Charanga for the song we have been learning 'Bringing Us Together'.
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 1:04pm
Year 4 took part in their first Forest School of the year today.
The children built dens, an musical theatre, played in the mud kitchen and spotted creatures. The children really enjoyed their time outdoors despite the mud!
Date: 28th Jan 2025 @ 3:40pm
This week in our Science we practised our oracy skills. We were given a concept cartoon and 'Challenge' stem sentences. First we practised our responses in a Nest then we did Pair work.
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 5:30pm
This week, we listened to the song, ‘Bringing us together’, again. We recapped the features of the song and then started to listen to the first part using the notes GAC so we could learn how to play it on the glockenspiels. We first started with a slower tempo (90bpm) and gradually increased the tempo to matching the song (112bpm). We performed the song to the class and the were fantastic. They were all in time and it sounded like the song!
Year 4 - What journeys do rivers make?
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 2:38pm
This week, we looked at the journey of a river from the source to the mouth. We started the lesson by matching 20 definitions and parts of rivers and then we used the information we learned to complete a glossary game and label some features on a river diagram. We also looked at how the land around a river changes from the upper course to the middle course and lower course.
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 5:20pm
In Year 4, we have been reading a poem about the winter season.
We have been practising our fluency as a whole class. Many children wanted to stand up and read in front of others! The children read very well as they read at the correct pace and were reading with intonation.
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 9:34am
On Wednesday the children in Schools Alive got the opportunity to professionally record the sound for their upcoming performance. The children loved singing into the microphones and worked hard to sing in unison. Some children even had solos and all did a fantastic job!
Date: 16th Jan 2025 @ 8:40am
This wee, we started our Science unit about Electricity. We spoke about what it is and we looked at appliances which use mains and battery.
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 8:06pm
This week, Year 4 have been looking at news reports. The class have analysed several different reports such as the Lionesses winning the Euros in 2022, the recent weather in the UK and recent wildfires in LA, California.
The children have found that there are many different features including direct and reported speech!
Next week, the class will be looking at how they will be gaining the skills to write their own news report.
Year 4 - What is a river and where are famous ones around the world?
Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 8:45am
We started our rivers unit by recapping the names of the UK countries, cities and seas/oceans. Then we moved around the room to look at information to find out what a river actually is. Once we discovered this we used atlas' to find famous rivers around the world.
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 8:51am
We absolutely loved using watercolours to create our RE Christmas Art this year. Our Art journey has been about telling a story through drawings using watercolours so we used these skills for our Christmas Art too.
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 2:23pm
This week, we looked at food chains. We learnt the word Apex Predator which means the animal at the top of the food chain. We played an online game together putting cards in the correct position depending whether they were a producer, prey or predator. Then we had a go at it ourselves.
Year 4 - Christmas jumpers, Elf run and Christmas dinner
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 10:28am
It's been all things Christmas today!
Year 4 - Maths - Multiplying three numbers
Date: 4th Dec 2024 @ 3:13pm
In Maths, we have been multplying three numbers together.
We have been looking at the most efficient ways of finding the product. For example, 2 x 7 x 5, many children spotted that they could multiply the factors 2 and 5 and then multiply 10 by 7.
Date: 4th Dec 2024 @ 3:06pm
In PE, we have been looking at how we complete vault jumps and straddle jumps. We have then used this to create sequences linking main movements such as a jump or roll to a balance. We then started to perform our small sequences and will be working on these sequences next lesson.
Year 4 - Enterprise for the Christmas Fair
Date: 4th Dec 2024 @ 11:00am
This week, we looked at what enterprise means and made sweet cones and reindeer food to sell at our Christmas Fair.
Date: 27th Nov 2024 @ 11:55am
In Maths, for no pen morning we used our place value knowledge to create a ‘Number Museum’. We were given a number which we had to display in as many ways as possible with Maths resources and other resources around the room. We also had to include a red herring for other groups to try and find when they were visiting our museum. In Reading into Writing, we used our computing skills to edit a WABOLL playscript. To end the morning, we used our oracy and active listening skills. We have been learning about active listening in our 'Skills for Life' lessons and assemblies. We had to ask our pair questions and make sure that we listened to their response and reasoning well enough to retell the rest of the class what we had learnt about each other.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 10:33am
Over the last few weeks, we been looking at the 'Rocking Romans'. We have listened and sang along to the song, “Oh, the strata of society” and performed the song "Boudicca" using percussion instruments. The children reneacted the sounds of gallopping horses and soldiers marching through Roman towns.
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 3:28pm
Today we were introduce to the focus of our 'Storytelling through drawing' unit with the poem 'A Day in Autumn'. We will look at the poem in more detail in the weeks to come, but this week the focus was autumnal colours. We went down to EYFS and hunted for some leave, twigs etc which would show good autumnal colours. Then back in class, we had a go at recreating some of the colours in our sketchbooks.
Date: 15th Nov 2024 @ 9:08am
We changed one part of our uniform to celebrate and raise money for Children in Need!
