Year 4: Blog items
Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm
Today we held out second Speling Bee of the year and it was another fantastic occasion. 4 children from each year group represented their house and were given three spellings each to spell out loud from a bank of words they have been learning since September. The competition was extremely close, with Rodwell and Elston finishing joint first as the children from these houses spelled all of their words correctly.
Well done to all of the children who took part today.
Year 4 - When dinosaurs arrived at Boundary
Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 2:40pm
Wow! What an amazing day for Science day today. We started the day with a wordsearch of lots of tricky dinosaur names. Then together in groups we wrote down lots of adjectives to describe dinosaurs. All of the words we used described dinosaurs as being extremely big. So our teachers showed us a variety of dinosaurs and we were surprised at how small some were - some as small as chickens! After a discussion about it, we then thought of more words to describe the variety of dinosaurs we had just looked at. After break, we went into a KS2 assembly where we met Jam. We learned about how Jam hunts for food. We found out that he had a great sense of smells and good eyesight. Next, we used our Maths and teamwork skills to do a scale jigsaw of a Tyrannosaurus Rex's head and a Sinornithosaurus. The children worked brilliantly together and we couldn't believe how big a T-Rex's head was in comparison to Year 4 children! After lunch, we went to the green screen workshop with the Teach Rex team and learned how to edit videos. Lastly, we used all our learning from the day to write fact files about a dinosaur of our choice. What a great day!
Date: 19th Mar 2024 @ 2:03pm
Every week, we do an activity around our new spelling rule. This week, after learning the spelling rule we had to look in a dictionary at definitions because there were a few words we hadn't heard of. After we completed the task, we practised spelling them on Spelling Shed.
Year 4 - WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 7:30pm
WOW! What a great day at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre. The weather was kind to us and held off for most of the day. We explored the Wetland Centre and saw lots of different animals and found out about their habitats and how their bodies are adapted to their environment. WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre are trying to tackle climate change, protect wildlife and tackle flooding. It was great to see everything they are doing to help our environment and the wildlife around us.
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 10:24am
What a great session this morning. We virtually met with five vounteers who all told us about their jobs in the art industry. We had a variety of virtual visitors from a tattoo artist, to a photographer to a painting conservator.
Year 4 - Who built the pyramids?
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 9:09am
Who built the pyramids? A lot of people believed that it was slaves who built the pyramids. We investigated whether that is true or not! Then we used our museum loan boxes to create a tomb and explore artefacts.
Year 4 - Ancient Egyptian Dancing
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 2:43pm
Today we looked at hieroglyphs and used our bodies to represent the symbols.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:58am
WOW!! What a great day so far for World Book Day. A great effort by all!! We did a live lesson, wrote down what we came as, went to The Attic and enjoyed talking about the characters we had come to school as.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 4:00pm
This week in History, we used our History, Geography and oracy skills. We started by locating Egypt and England on a world map and then zoomed in on Europe and North Africa to see how far away Egypt is. Next, we were given a map of Egypt and in groups we had to discuss and decide where we think we would have been best to build the pyramids and Pharaoh tombs. We came up with some sentence starters to support our discussions. We decided that near the River Nile was the best option because of the supply of water for building and living whilst building the tombs/pyramids.
Year 4 - Classifying vertebrates
Date: 26th Feb 2024 @ 7:03pm
Today we focused on how to classify vertebrate using branching. We recapped the characteristics of the five vertebrates then used various resources to make our own.
Year 4 - Discovering Ancient Egypt
Date: 21st Feb 2024 @ 2:30pm
We started to learn about Ancient Egypt this week. Firstly, we located where Ancient Egypt was on a chronological timeline. Then, we completed an information run around the classroom to gather as much information about Ancient Egypt as possible. At the end of the lesson we listened to a Now, Press, Play activity.
Year 4- Our 100th Day in School!
Date: 20th Feb 2024 @ 7:09am
Today, Yera 4 have been celebrating our 100th day in school by completing problem solving activities based on the book 'One is a snail, ten is a crab.' We were given a number and we had to work systematically to find all the possibliites of making that number. We found that starting with the larger number and making small changes each time was the most efficient method to find all possiblities.
Year 4 - Maple's first Boundary Book Banter
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 3:40pm
Today Maple took part in their first Boundary Book Banter. To help engage and excite pupils in reading, we have been chatting about the books that we have checked-out of the new school library (The Attic). Each week, pupils will be given time to share their book with their peers and the whole class, explaining what they liked or disliked about the book. Together we will explore common themes and make links between different genres and different authors.
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 2:58pm
For Internet Safety Day, Year 4 discussed the positive and negative influences on the internet. As a class, we debated whether certain influences impacted our behaviour and views positively, negatively or both. We also talked about different uses for the internet and the differences it can make to our lives.
Date: 5th Feb 2024 @ 8:55pm
This week, we recapped last week's lesson where we worked on strengthening our upper body. Then we work through circuits to work on our change of direction, effort level and speed.
Year 4 - Planning for LGBTQ+ news report
Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 8:33pm
As a class, we did a carousel to make a group plan for a news report about Blackpool Pride.
Date: 30th Jan 2024 @ 8:24pm
WOW! What a great trip with Ribble Rivers Trust today down at Preston Docks. We went for a lovely walk along the river itself, visited the Pyramid building which controls the docks. Here we learned about the history of the dock, we learned that there's a manmade wall built at the mouth of the river near St Annes because they needed to control the course of the river more. When Preston Docks was fully open (before 1981) it saw cargo bring in things like silk, cotton and bananas. Nowadays, the dock is used for leisure craft. Back at the boatyard, we learned about river safety. We learned the acronym SAFE (Stay, Away, From the Edge) and that if we ever find ourselves in a river with no help, we should lay like a starfish with our feet at pointing towards to direction of the water flow. We even had the opportunity to see the bridge move like how it does when it has to allow boats through.
Year 4 - French numbers to 100!
Date: 29th Jan 2024 @ 6:29pm
WOW! Year 4 amazed us today with their resilience to understanding French numbers up to 100. Can you use the slides from class to tell your family at home some numbers?
Date: 28th Jan 2024 @ 10:46am
What a great day we had for our DT Food Day! We started the day planning what we wanted in our sandwiches and what we wanted the sandwich to look like. Then we recapped how to do the bridge and claw method for cutting food. When we were deciding what to put in our sandwiches we had to remember that they needed to look appetising and needed to be an example of a balanced diet. Year 4 did a great job!
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 8:22pm
This half term, Year 4 are creating their own platter of sandwiches. To help decide what fillings they wanted in their sandwich, they tasted 15 different fillings and 3 types of bread. Whilst tasting the different foods, the children wrote down their thoughts about the appearance, smell, taste and texture of the foods. We then used these ideas to create a class table of descriptions.
Year 4 - River Ribble Trust Week 1
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 9:33am
Today we welcomed colleagues from River Ribble Trust for their first session with us. We focused on the key question ‘How do people use rivers?’ We looked at various ways in which people use rivers for their livelihood, leisure and the environment around the world. We looked at the importance of rivers in our daily lives and why we need to minimise pollution. We looked at key features of rivers and used maps to identify them.
Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 1:28pm
In Year 4, we were introduced to a multiplication competition on a website called Emile first thing this morning and we did lots of times tables to gain points for our school. Then we went on a typing skills website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr#zn9s3qt) where we put on headphones and practised some typing skills. After we learnt typing skills, we learned how to use some of the skills on Google Docs (e.g bold, italic). We then used these skills to highlight some of the features of a Newspaper report like we have been doing in Reading into Writing. In Maths, some children matched 3D and 2D shapes into the correct columns on a worksheet. Everyone else continued their work on multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers.
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 6:30pm
This morning we had a Road Safety assembly and then this afternoon we did some more work around Road Safety. We started by looking at maps and finding either our own house or someone we know who lives close by and looking at their walking route to school. We looked at how many roads would have to be crossed over and what help there is (if at all). Then we looked at pictures and had to decide if they were safe or unsafe. Last we were given four scenarios and we had to decide how we would keep safe in that scenario.
Year 4 - Fitness (Circuit training)
Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 6:26pm
Today we start our Fitness unit. We recapped some circuit activities such as step up and star jumps, then we learned to how to do squats, lateral side steps and lunges.
Year 4 - Learning our spellings
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 1:13pm
We kicked off the first Friday of Spring 1 learning our spelling rules and the definitions of our words.
