Year 4: Blog items
Date: 3rd Nov 2022 @ 1:54pm
Today we have studied poppies and use our observational drawing skills to draw poppies, shading them with pencil crayons carefully. The aim is that we make a repeating pattern that can be used as part of our Remembrance display Soldier. We have taken great care and concentrated, whilst listening to music that would typically be played and performed at the cenotaph, including Abide with me and Elgar's Nimrod played by the orchestra. This allowed us to reflect on the soldiers who have fought or died for our country.
Date: 1st Nov 2022 @ 1:57pm
This year we are really focusing on our handwriting. This afternoon we did some activities to help support our handwriting practise. Please encourage your children to practise at home too. After we went over some tricky letter formations, we wrote a poem for Remembrance Day for our Year 4 display.
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 12:53pm
Today, we completed our fantasy setting descriptions. Here are some examples of the children's fantastic writing! This is the setting they were describing: https://www.literacyshed.com/draculas-whitby.html
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 2:56pm
This week we listen to and appraised Martin Luther King. The children participated well and listened carefully. Then we got the glockenspiels out and tried play and perform.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 11:29am
In Year 4, something we all need to work on is spotting simple errors in our writing. Today, we did some activities to practise spotting errors such as missing full stops, missing capital letters and simple spellings errors.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 8:50am
This week, we looked at keeping safe online. The children haven't done any online safety lessons since before summer, so we started with a Flashback to what they can remember about online safety. They were brilliant! This week, we looked at our identity online and how we know if someone is who they say they are.
Year 4's amazing figurative language list
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 8:29pm
For the last few weeks of this half term, we are writing a fantasy setting description. The children were shown the setting they'd be describing today and then they worked really hard together to come up with examples of figurative language and fronted adverbials that they could use in their own writing.
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 2:56pm
Today, we continued with our stop motions. Firstly, we evaluated our stop motions frames from last week, then we went back and edited them to improve them. We are getting super good at it now!
Year 4 Why did the Roman Empire end?
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 2:45pm
This week, we started to focus on why this huge empire came to an end. The Romans were so strong and well-trained, but eventually invading so much of Europe caught up to them. Having such a vast army all over Europe was costly and soon issues were occuring. Have a listen to some of the children explaining more reasons...
Year 4 School Council Elections
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 3:46pm
Today we voted for our school council representatives. We voted for one representative in Maple and one from Laurel. The children listened well to the candidates manifestos yesterday and were respectful when voting in the school hall today. Well done to the winners!
Year 4 - Fantasy setting descriptions
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 10:42am
This week, we have started our next writing journey. For the first few days, we will be immersing ourselves in examples of fantasy setting descriptions. The children have been brilliant at picturing what the setting descriptions have been describing.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 9:23am
In year 4 this year, we are really focusing on handwriting. We are doing handwriting lessons daily to try and help improve the children's handwriting. We are mainly focusing on letter formation, but we are also pushing the children to write the neatest they can and not to rush. You will notice when the children bring their spelling homework home each week, there is an opportunity for them to practise their handwriting with their spellings.
Date: 27th Sep 2022 @ 8:31am
The 26th September is European Languages Day! We celebrated by discussing why we have different languages and how many there are across Europe. We had a go at saying Hello and Goodbye in numerous languages and then we focused on Spanish phrases. The children were brilliant!
Date: 23rd Sep 2022 @ 5:00pm
We started our Computing journey today and the children impressed Miss Crystal and Mr Bamber immensely! They listened extremely carefully and followed instructions so well. The children learned how to use Google Slides to make a Stop Motion Animation. They used one slide per frame of animation to create an animation of the sun rising and moon.
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 11:05am
Year 4 did amazing in Rugby this week! Tom (from Wigan Warriors) said that it was a tough lesson because there's some difficult footwork and passing, but we were the best year group he's ever done it with. Well done Year 4! Maybe some future rugby stars on our hands!
Year 4 Queen Elizabeth II tribute
Date: 21st Sep 2022 @ 1:09pm
On Friday, we learned more about Queen Elizabeth II's love for corgis and horses. Over her lifetime, the Queen had over 60 dogs and numerous horses - her favourite being Burmese a Canadian horse. The children used numerous images showing this love for animals to create collages. We think they look fantastic!
Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 4:03pm
This week, we found out why Boudica revolted against the Romans. We also looked at the way she has been described in the past and what image we have of her. We decided that she is strong, brave and determind. We then had the opportunity to experience a Now, Press, Play session all about Boudica's revolt. We were a boy, who's father was fighting for the Romans as Boudica revolted.
Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 3:58pm
We have been looking at partitioning in Maths, but this week we have been looking at flexible where it is as straight forward as splitting a number using the place value chart. For example, if we partitioned 2894, we would probably do 2000+800+90+4. Flexible partitioning means that we look at numbers differently. So we could partition 2894 by doing 1000+ 1800+90+4 or 1100+1700+80+14 - there are many ways!
Year 4 The start of our French journey
Date: 13th Sep 2022 @ 7:40pm
We recapped counting to 10 in French, then we looked at the French phonics. This term we are focusing on French phonics! After looking at the pronunciation of the alphabet today - we focused on French vowels.
Year 4's Trip to Boundary's Roman Museum
Date: 13th Sep 2022 @ 7:33pm
Today Redcliffes turned into Boundary's Roman museum. The children had the chance to explore lots of aspects of Roman life and their invasion and reign over Britain. Children looked at artefacts and examples of lots of Roman equipment, utensils, coins and a fantastic replica of a legionary's amour - some even tried it on! It was SO heavy!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 11:33am
We started our Rubgy lessons today with Tom from Wigan Warriors. We will be learning lots of new rugby skills over this half term when Tom comes in every Thursday! We absolutely loved it. We learned how to hold the rugby ball and even started to tag each other with it when we were trying to score a try!
Year 4 immerse themselves in non-chronological reports
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 2:53pm
Date: 6th Sep 2022 @ 4:22pm
We are delighted that over summer our new History timelines have been installed in the school main hall. We have had two installed. One is about world history and includes events such as world wars, the invention of the internet and legalisation of gay marriage. The other timeline is all about our local area of Blackpool. Underneath our Blackpool timeline we have maps of how the area of Layton and Grange Park has changed too!
Year 4 discover what solids, liquids and gases are
Date: 6th Sep 2022 @ 4:12pm
Today, after learning about solids, liquids and gases and their properties, we looked at all three states. We discovered that the particles of a solid are closely packed together, the particles of a liquid are close together but able to move and the particles of a gas are spread out all over.
Remember, Solids,liquids and gases........ they all matter!!
Year 4 find out why the Romans invaded Britain
Date: 6th Sep 2022 @ 4:08pm
We started off our History topic this year by investigating why the Romans invaded Britain. The children firstly looked at our brand new History timeline in the hall and where the Romans are within the history timeline compared to their previous learning about the Stone Age, Iron Age and WW2. Then we investigated and found out why the Romans came here. Reasons included; we have great land, lots of cattle and lots of gold.
