Year 4: Blog items

Year 4 - The Water Cycle

Date: 16th Oct 2023 @ 9:54pm

Over the last few weeks, we have been putting all of our States of Matter knowledge together to learn about The Water Cycle. We created a model of the cycle in class then we used our knowledge to write a story about 'Robbie the rainddrop' and his journey around The Water Cycle.

Year 4- Black History Month

Date: 16th Oct 2023 @ 9:35pm

Over the last couple of weeks, Year 4 have been celebrating Black History Month in our PSHE and Reading into Writing lessons. This year, the main theme of Black History Month is 'Celebrating our Sisters.' Furthermore, our year group focus was sporting achievements. Therefore, in PSHE, we researched a range of Black British Women athletes who have made a significant impact on the sporting industry. We then used this to create our own artwork. This allowed us to discuss key words, such as diversity and culture, and emphasise the importance of appreciating similarities and differences between everyone. 

In Reading into Writing, we have been working towards writing a non-chronological report about Lauren James. Firstly, we looked at some existing non-chonological reports about Lauren James before researching interesting facts about her early life and football career, including her biggest achievements. After this, we collated these facts into our own non-chronological reports. 

We have found it very interesting to learn about all of the incredible Black British athletes and their amazing achivements and impact they have had on our history.

Year 4 - Maple's Reading Champions

Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 9:16am

We are so proud of our first Reading Champions in Maple Class! They have read every day and accessed Reading Plus for at least 30 minutes a week. Between them, they have ready over 10 books since we came back to school in September.

Year 4 RE- What does love your neighbour really mean?

Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 8:01pm

This half-term, we have been investigating the key question 'What does love your neighbour really mean?' 

We have been discussing how important messages and guidance are passed on through stories and parables. We have also looked at the morals of these parables and how these teachings help to guide Christians in their daily lives.

In one of our lessons, we discussed how Christian charities show a selfless love of others and have researched the work that they do to help people in need.

We have also talked about how Christians show a love for their neighbour and how this message can pass onto future generations through messages and quotes from the Bible. 

Year 4- Spelling Bee

Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 7:25pm

This week, we have held our first Spelling Bee of the year. Four children from each year group were selected to represent their house. They were each given three words to spell from our 3/4 statutory spelling words.

We are extremel proud of the children in Year 4 who represented our year group and their houses. They got all of their spellings correct which shows hard work and dedication to learning their spellings. Well done!

Spelling Bee

Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 11:49am

We have held our first Spelling Bee of the year and what a wonderful event it was! 4 children in each year group represented their house and were given three words to spell from over a list of 30 possible words. Every child showed courage and determination when it came to spelling their words. It was a very close contest, with Chepstow winning overall with 15 out of 15. We are very proud of all the children who represented their house and are looking forward to the next one.

Year 4 - Aspire Trip

Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 10:36am

WOW! What a great trip to Aspire this morning. We learned how to be safe when using bunsen burners to heat up water and produce steam. We changed a liquid to a gas.

Year 4- Creating Christmas Cards

Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 8:13pm

This half term in DT, Year 4 have been working towards designing, making and evaluating their own Christmas card using linkage and lever systems. Therefore, we have been mastering the practical skills needed to create our first moving mechanism. Using cards and split pins, we were able to create a waving hand! We will use these new practical skills when we start making our cards later in the half term.

Year 4 - Changing states

Date: 3rd Oct 2023 @ 9:14am

This week, we looked at whether states of matter can be changed. We used coloured ice cubes from the freezer and observed what happened when we changed the temperature (we kept them in our classroom).

Year 4 - Voting!

Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 10:16am

Today was our School Council Election Day! Well done to those who took part in presentating their manifestos this week. Best of luck to you all!

Year 4 - How were the Romans able to keep control over such a vast empire?

Date: 26th Sep 2023 @ 4:06pm

This week, our key question was "How were the Romans able to keep control over such a vast empire?"

Using information in a video we watched and other research we had to write down two ways the Romans kept control and we had to rate how important they were.

Year 4 - European Day of Languages

Date: 26th Sep 2023 @ 4:02pm

Year 4 had a great day celebrating European Day of Languages. In assembly, the House Captains particpated in a language quiz, then the children took part in a treasure hunt around the KS2 playground. Questions were based on languages, culture and the geography of European Countries. 

Year 4 - Roman Museum and Now, Press, Play

Date: 19th Sep 2023 @ 3:03pm

Today we listened to the ‘Roman Britain’ Now, Press, Play unit. We heard about what life was like in Britain when the Romans were here, how the Roman Army was set up and we recapped Boudica and her rebellion. Afterwards, we went into Redcliffes where a ‘Roman Museum’ was set up. We were able to try on Roman Army uniform, look at Roman coins and pottery. We were challenged to compare artefacts to items we use today.

Year 4 - What is a gas?

Date: 19th Sep 2023 @ 9:34am

Key questions: What is mass? Does air have mass? Which gas does fire need to burn?

 

We discovered that air does have mass by weighing an empty balloon and a balloon with air in it.

We also discovered that when mixing bicarbonate of soda and vinegar we got carbon dioxide and our match blew out. That's because fire needs oxygen to burn.

Year 4 - First visit to 'The Attic'

Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 11:04am

Today we visited our new library 'The Attic' for the first time. Wow! It's amazing, we can't wait to start getting library books.

Year 4 - Queen Boudica

Date: 12th Sep 2023 @ 10:52pm

This week in History, we found out about Queen Boudica. Boudica was a fierce, brave warrior queen who had enough of the Romans mistreating her and her fellow Britons, so she decided to fight back!

Year 4 - Knowing all the places

Date: 11th Sep 2023 @ 8:12pm

Since returning to school we have had a huge focus on Place Value in Maths. Today, we focused on representing numbers to 10000.

Year 4 - Musical Hoedown

Date: 11th Sep 2023 @ 8:09pm

Today, we focused on performing. To start the lesson, we recapped the elements of music focusing on our vocabulary words.  Learn to sing the Hoedown again, recap context. Then after a little warm up of our voices we learned to sing ‘Hoedown’.

We focused on:

  • Learning to sing the song as part of an ensemble/choir
  • Following a leader/conductor
  • Understanding the meaning of the song
  • Demonstrating and maintain correct posture and breath control
  • How do we sing at our best? Standing and with air in our lungs. How can we sing in unison?

Year 4 - Rugby

Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 3:55pm

This week we started our 7 weeks with Wigan Warriors. We learned to tig each other and run with the ball.

Year 4 - Figurative Language

Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 3:53pm

This week, we started to look at figurative language. We focused on similes, personification, metaphors, onomatopoeia and alliteration.

Year 4 - Geography Day

Date: 13th Jul 2023 @ 2:26pm

What a great day we've had today learning all about Antarctica. We started the day mindmapping what we already know about the fifth largest continent. Then we were given our key question: What is it like to work in Antarctica? We went on to Google Earth to look at where we are compared to Antarctica. We then watched some videos where researchers explained what their roles are at Antarctica. We learned more about the 2041 Antarctic Treaty. The researches told us about how we need to protect the planet and recycle better so that we can protect the Antarctic and they said that they are hopeful that the treaty will be signed again so that people cannot destroy it. Next, we looked at the Halley research centre which is a base for UK research in Antarctica. Our task was then to research how to get there, what we would need to live/work there and what our job role would entail.

Year 4 - Choral Speaking

Date: 13th Jul 2023 @ 8:26am

We are so proud of Year 4 performing 'My Shadow' by Robert Louis Stevenson and 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carrol in our Choral Speaking Competition. Well done Year 4, you were so in sync and showed so much expression!

Year 4 - French dictionaries

Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 1:42pm

At the start of today's lesson we used coloured beanbags to practise our French colours. This half term we have been looking at 'Goldilocks and The Three Bears' in French. Today, we used French dictionaries to translate parts of the story. 

Year 4 - Repeated codes

Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 2:19pm

WOW! We cannot believe the perseverance from Year 4 today. They have shown all their learning from the last few weeks to explore repeated codes to make shapes and pictures. The children used forward (FD), pen up (PU), pen down (PD), RT (right turn), LT (left turn) and repeat (repeat code) on Turtle Academy to create their shapes and images. Year 4 were able to recognise angles in shapes to input the correct right or left turn.

Year 4 - Heritage Day 2023

Date: 3rd Jul 2023 @ 3:07pm

For Boundary’s Heritage Day 2023 we learned all about Blackpool Football Club. We started the day by discussing what heritage means and what we have learned about on previous Heritage days. Then we plotted events from Blackpool FC’s history in chronological order on a timeline. Next, we went into the Dance Studio where we were able to look at lots of the Seasider’s memorabilia. To finish the morning, we researched more information about the club including: why they play in tangerine, a famous chant called ‘Allez, Allez, Allez’, who owns the club, promotions and trophies they have won (FA Cup in 1953, promotion to the Premier League in 2010), their home stadium Bloomfield Road and what the coat of arms on their badge represent.

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