Year 4: Blog items

Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check (MTC)

Date: 8th Apr 2022 @ 7:21am

Just a reminder to all our Year 4 parents/carers that in June, our children are required to complete the Multiplication Tables Check (MTC). We strongly encourage you to ensure that your child/children are practising at home to put them in good stead! Here are some useful websites to help:

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct5cDctLVTI

The Year 5's Have Taken Over!

Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 4:46pm

Today saw the Year 5's take over the school! (supervised of course...). The children who took over Year 4 did an absolutely amazing job! They explained their lessons/activities well and engaged both classes really well! Everyone in Year 4 (staff and children) said that they had had an amazing morning thanks to Year 5. Looks like Mr McCormack and Mr Bamber might be out of a job soon!

Year 4 Michelle Reader Watch Out!

Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 4:26pm

In our Art journey we have been looking at sculptures, especially those by Anthony Gormley and Michelle Reader. Our Year 4's have had their first attempt at making a sculpture of their choice from recycled materials. A fantastic first effort and a great evaluation after we had finished. We managed to iron out a few structural problems and will come back bigger and better next lesson!

Year 4 Our Diverse Community!

Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 4:17pm

Last week we had an amazing PSHE lesson which got us up and out of our seats to enjoy the amazing weather we had! Our lesson was all about how diverse we are as a community and all the amazing qualities and attributes that people can bring. Both classes mixed outside and had to find the answers to questions such as 'Find someone who can speak another language', 'Find someone who's parents were born in another country' and 'Find someone who has a different hobby to you'. We learned a lot about each other and our Year 4's worked really well together! 

Year 4 Debate this...

Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 7:30pm

Our Reading into Writing journey at the moment is all about discussions/debates. We decided that the 'big question' that we would focus on is 'Should Emperor Claudius Have Invaded Britain'? Look familiar? That's becuase it was also a part of our History journey this half term! We decided that it would be a great way to link some of our subjects together so here we are breaking down the 'for' and 'against' arguments to practice being able to write a discussion/debate. Some very compelling arguments being formulated here, Emperor Claudius' adivsors should watch out!

Year 4 Art Day!

Date: 28th Mar 2022 @ 7:21pm

Last week in our Art Day our Year 4's were looking at sculptures! We had a good look at Blackpool Tower and the Big One at the Pleasure Beach. We looked at different artists and their sculptures and used somenew techniques to create our own pieces of art. Some really good pieces from our Year 4's and what a great day we had!

Year 4 Orienteering

Date: 17th Mar 2022 @ 9:31am

This half term in PE we are orienteering! We have had a fantastic time so far learning how to read and follow instructions to achieve an end goal, worked really well in pairs and groups to remember different codes to feedback to the teachers, enjoyed the outdoors and got in a good bit of exercise! Year 4 are really looking forwrad to seeing how this develops in the coming weeks and eventually moving onto reading maps!

Year 4 Church Visit

Date: 17th Mar 2022 @ 9:16am

This week we visited St Mark's church as part of our RE journey this half term. We spent some fo the afternoon exploring the church and discussing how the different features are used day to day. After that, we learnt about the different parts of the Bible and how the Bible tells us a whole host of different stories. To finish the afternoon, we took some time to reflect on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and we wrote supportive messages and pictures on popst it notes to show our support.

Year 4 Should Emperor Claudius have invaded Britain?

Date: 14th Mar 2022 @ 7:38pm

Last week in History, we looked at the different reasons as to why Roman Emperor Claudius would have left hot, sunny Italy to invade cold we Britain. We played the part of his advisors and looked at reasons why it would have been a good idea and why it would have been a bad idea to invade Britain. We rounded the lesson off with a good old debate, with some fantastic arguments for both sides, and some well thought out counter arguments from our Year 4's!

Year 4 The Lion's Den

Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 7:24am

This week, our RE lesson was based around the story of Daniel and the Lion's Den. We watched a video explaining what happened to Daniel and we decided to have a class debate. Some of us argued that Daniel should have been sent to the Lion's Den and others argued against that. There was some fantastic collaborative learning, teamwork and well thought out arguments and counter arguments from our Year 4's this week.

Year 4 Chez Moi

Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 5:19pm

This week in French Year 4 have been learning all about houses and the different types of rooms. We have also been discussing different types of environment that people live in. For example, the city, by the sea and in the countryside. We had a great paired discussion and activity this week!

Year 4 World Book Day 2022!

Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 5:16pm

This week we celebrated World Book Day 2022! We had a fantastic day in Year 4 as this was also our Forest School day! We had some great activites in class for World Book Day. We used our new bookmarks (which have a QR Code and log in details to access a whole online library on Oxford Owl) to do some book surfing and choose an online book to read. We talked about the characters that we had come dressed up as and what book they were from. We also played a fantastic quiz, thanks to Mrs Hamilton to nicely round off the day.

Year 4 We want the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth!

Date: 27th Feb 2022 @ 4:28pm

This half term we are learning all about 'Animals including Humans' in our Science lessons. Our WOW lesson this half term was all about our teeth! What the different types of teeth are and what purpose they serve. We also talked about how different kinds of animnals have different sets of teeth dependent on whether they are a herbivore, omnivore or carnivore. 

Year 4 Our 100th Day!

Date: 24th Feb 2022 @ 6:49pm

'Twosday' was also our 100th day in school this year so far! We focussed our maths lesson around the number 100. We had 6 activities, which were laid out as a carousel and in our groups we wokred our way aorund, learning loads and having a great time! We also looked at how life was like 100 years ago, how life is now in comparison and how we think life will be in 100 years time. If even half of what we discussed happens in 100 years time, it's going to be pretty exciting!

Year 4 Fit 2 Go

Date: 20th Feb 2022 @ 4:35pm

Last half term Year 4 had weekly visits from Blackpool FC and had an amazing time on the Fit 2 Go initiative! Some fantastic games that were not only fun, but really raised our pulses and incorporated a lot of teamwork and problem solving. We also learned so much from our theory sessions which were all about how we can keep both our body and our minds healthy. A huge thank you to Blackpool FC, we had an amazing time and learned so much in the process!

Year 4 Children's Mental Health Week

Date: 11th Feb 2022 @ 5:07pm

We have been having some fantastic discussions in Year 4 this week with it being Children's Mental Health Week. We have been talking about what we think mental health means and what it means to us. There have been some really positive and mature discussion points this week and the children have really enjoyed talking about all the ways in which we can ensure that we not only look after our bodies but our minds too!

Year 4 We take 'Pride' in our work!

Date: 4th Feb 2022 @ 7:35am

In our latest Reading into Writing journey we have been learning all about newspaper reports and the features that come with them. We have also put a focus on learning about the LGBTQ+ community and have based our newspaper report on Blackpool Pride. We have had some amazing discussions and open-mindedness and some fantastic work! Mr McCormack and Mr Bamber are looking forward to reading the final pieces!

Year 4 Wonderful Waves!

Date: 2nd Feb 2022 @ 8:18pm

This week in Geography we have been learning all ab out how waves affect out coastlines. We have learned all about contructive and deconstructive waves and the impact they have on our coastlines. We had a conducted a great experiment using water and sand to recreate the two types of waves in our classroom! 

Year 4 There's a very thin line between a numerator and a denominator!

Date: 28th Jan 2022 @ 5:33pm

In Maths this week we have been recapping our knowledge of fractions! We have remembered quite a lot from Year 3 which is amazing and we had a bit of fun writing on our tables making fraction equations with numicon.

Year 4 Computing AND Lego?!

Date: 18th Jan 2022 @ 4:53pm

Computing and Lego? What a lesson that sounds like! Today Year 4 would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Goldie from EdTech who came and taught our computing lesson today. We had a fantastic time and learnt loads about coding. We got to build a Lego snail, and then all through the coding software make the snail make sounds, move, and light up! We can't wait for the next one! 

Year 4 Pas de journ

Date: 18th Jan 2022 @ 4:25pm

Today was 'No Pen Day' at Boundary which fitted perfectly into our French lesson this week! We are learning all about our families in French and it gave us a great opportunity for a discussion about all the different people in our families. We were able to ask each other about our different family members and answer back in French! Bon travail Year 4!

Year 4 Seas the day!

Date: 6th Jan 2022 @ 7:58pm

In Year 4 this week we have started our Geography journey by beginning to learn about our coastlines. This week we focussed on physical and human features of geography and what they mean. We watched an 'ama-sea-ing' video of different clips of the coastlines around the UK.

We then look at different features and decided whether they were human (man made) features or physical (natural) features. A fantastic effort from our Year 4's and it was clear to 'sea' that they enjoyed their lesson!

What's going on in 'ear?

Date: 1st Dec 2021 @ 10:46am

This week in science our Year 4's have been learning all about the ear. We have talked about the different parts of the ear, how they all work together and how our brain processes sounds. We then created our own PowerPoints to show off what we have learned about the human ear so far and presented to each other.

The Great Outdoors

Date: 25th Nov 2021 @ 5:12pm

Today in Year 4 we enjoyed our first forest school session. We spent our first session creating shelters, and nicely rounded the day off by toasting some marshmallows. It was a little bit chilly but thankfully the weather held out and our Year 4's had a great time! 

Gymnastics!

Date: 19th Nov 2021 @ 4:15pm

Our Year 4's have been tumbling around in their PE lesson this week as we have started doing gymnastics this half term. We have been working on some of our balances and even improving our teamwork! 

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