Year 4: Blog items
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!
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 9:10am
Year 4 have been learning the question, "Comment tu-t'appelles?" which means what is your name and how to answer.
In the video clips, the children are asking each other their names. They then used this knowledge and applied it to expand their conversation in French as they have used a greeting, asked how the other is feeling and have been able to answer.
Date: 13th Nov 2024 @ 5:12pm
Pupils explored how they can build and share a story through a series of images. They used charcoal and chalk to produce an illustration of a setting and description. The children then displayed their work on their tables and admired other pieces of art work in class similar to an art gallery!
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 3:57pm
Today, we made our own digestive system. We used a sandwich bag to recreate the stomach and the churning which happens in there. Then, we moved the churned food (crackers, banana, soup and orange juice) to some tights. These were representing the small intestine and large intestine. Lastly, the waste food, which is faeces, was stored in the rectum (a plastic cup) and then our teachers cut a hole in the bottom to represent the anus and a bowel movement.
Year 4 - Remembrance Day Celebration
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 3:51pm
Today we were part of our annual Remembrance Day Celebration. Last week, we used our art skills to make poppies out of clay and paint them with acrylic paint.
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 4:33pm
Over the last two weeks, Year 4 have been completing whole class guided reading sessions. Year 4 have looked at a poem about a clan of badgers who are under attack in their sett by machinery and a non-chronological report about Bonfire Night which explains why we celebrate the event.
Year 4 -DT - Creating a lever and linkage
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 10:08am
In DT, we received a letter asking us to design and create a card. The specification was precise – we need to ensure it is a Christmas card, it is designed for primary school children and it has a linkage and lever system. We then looked at card designs and evaluated them.
Next, we learned about linkages and levers and created a basic one which we will adapt and use when we create our Christmas cards!
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 9:37pm
This week across school we have been celebrating Anti-Bullying week. We started the week off with the a whole school assembly based around this year's theme ‘Choose Respect’. Throughout the week the children have been learning about being respectful and why this is such an important skill for life. Alongside this they have also been exploring the theme of bullying including what it means, different types of bullying, what to do if you are being bullied, the difference of a bystander and upstander, how to solve conflicts and what discrimination means. We finished of the week by inviting everyone to wear odd socks to celebrate everyone’s differences and promote kindness. What a fantastic week we have had!
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 3:32pm
Following in from our Anti-Bullying assembly with Mrs Clark on Monday, we looked at what bullying means again and then focused on the theme of respect. We had lots of different scenarios and we had to categorise them into respectful or disrespectful. Then we used our learning to decide what we would do in some new scenarios from the Anti Bullying Alliance.
Date: 29th Oct 2024 @ 10:18am
We starting our unit about Animals including humans and what a great start to the unit. We focused on our teeth. We explored which teeth we use to bite, tear, chew and grind - practising with an apple. Then we looked at the correct names for our teeth and their functions. We then used our knowledge of our teeth to make a model.
