Year 4: Blog items
Y4 - Circuits, by Miss Wallis
Date: 22nd Apr 2024 @ 1:13pm
Year 4 made a simple circuit using a bulb, a battery and 2 wires.
Y4 - DT, by Miss Wallis
Date: 22nd Apr 2024 @ 1:10pm
Year 4 worked hard to create 3D purses out of felt. We stitches the pieces of felt together using a variety of stitches.
Y4 - Freddy Fit, by Miss Naushin
Date: 22nd Apr 2024 @ 1:06pm
Year 4 have really enjoyed their active session with Freddy Fit! They learnt lots of intresting facts about our bodies and how to keep healthy.
Y4 - Volcanoes, by Miss Wallis
Date: 22nd Apr 2024 @ 1:06pm
Year 4 really enjoyed making volcanoes from cardboard and water bottles. We then made them explode on the playground.
Y4 - World Book Day, by Miss Naushin
Date: 2nd Mar 2023 @ 4:39pm
Today was World Book Day!
We had lots of fun dressing up as our favourite characters from different stories! We had a wide range of characters across Year 4.
Throughout the day, we had different book themed activities, from library scavenger hunts to creating our own Spanish fairytale!
Enjoy looking through these photos to see what we got up to :)
Y4 DT project, by Miss Naushin
Date: 15th Dec 2022 @ 5:53pm
Year 4 have been very busy for the last few weeks, working on their fantastic DT project.
We have been making a festival card of our choice, that has a moving part.
We discussed the process of designing our product carefully, making our product so that all parts are functioning correctly, and evaluating what we have made.
We've had lots of fun throughout this project!
Y4 Christmas party, by Miss Naushin
Date: 15th Dec 2022 @ 5:41pm
Year 4 had a fantastic time at their Christmas party!
We had a Christmas quiz, decorated our tables, ate lots of party food and watched some films!
We want to give all the adults who provided the food and drink a huge THANK YOU for making our party possible!
Y4 Invertebrate Hunt, by Mr Carter
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 8:27am
In Science we are looking at Living Things.
As part of our topic, we explored our school grounds to find as many invertebrates as we could and do some classifications with the invertebrates that we found.
We had a super morning.
Y4 Trip to the library, by Miss Naushin
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 8:11am
Year 4 had a lovely time at the library! We learnt about how the library organises its books and had a tour. The children then had the chance to take part in a book hunt challenge, using the library's layout to find lots of different authors and books. The children were then able to withdraw some books out using their library cards!
RE- parent visitor, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 12:35pm
To complete our RE topic, What does it mean to be a Hindu in Britain today, we had a special visit from one of our parents who follows Hinduism. Adi's mum from 4M came in to talk to the children. She was able to talk to the children about her religion and answer questions. Then she taught the children a bollywood dance. Every child was engaged and enjoyd this. The children were lucky enought to try on different tradditional dresses. We all have so much fun.
Litter picking, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 21st Jul 2022 @ 12:31pm
Year 4 enjoyed going into the local area and litter picking. Everyone was very sensible and thought about saftey. They then were rewarded with a play on the park. Good work Year 4.
RE art, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 11:58am
As part of our topic we enjoyed learning about the Easter story and why the crucifix is such an important symbol to Chrsitians. We then used charcoal to create an artist image of a cross.
DT- sewing, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 11:56am
Our sewing topic was a fit! Everyone really enjoyed the challenge of learning different stitches. After researching pencil cases, and their interesting history, we designed our own considering our audience. After this we made our own pencil cases. It was important to consider the fastening used and the length to ensure all the stationary could fit in.
Art- making gemstones and pendants, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 11:54am
As part of our jewellery topic we learnt all about differnt gemstones. We then enjoyed making our own gemstones using a plain gem and nail varnish. We had to think about what we had learnt to make it look real. After this, we used our gemstones to design a necklace and our gemstone was the pendant.
Year 4- History museum, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 11:46am
To complete our Crime and Punishment topic we revised all of the information we had learnt across our 5 session to make a poster, leaflet or fact file whihc could go into a Year 4 museum. We enjoyed looking at pictures of people we had learnt about, including; Sir Robert Peel, Emmeline Pankhurst and Dick Turpin. We are all veyr proud of our work and we hope you like them too :)
Active Maths Multiplication and Division, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 25th Jan 2022 @ 1:12pm
Year 4 have enjoyed taking their Maths lesson outside this week. We all had a digit card, we have to join up in groups of 3/4 to then use our number cards to make number sentences for division and multiplication. We had to see how many different sentences we could make with 3 or 4 digit cards.
Coding variables, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 25th Jan 2022 @ 1:09pm
Last week we had a special coding session with Barclays. We joined in with other schools to code a game. We followed the coding instructions, which were very tricky, these included using variables. We enjoyed the challenge!
Science- Digestive system, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 25th Jan 2022 @ 1:07pm
To consolidate our learning about the digestive system we drew around our partner and then had to draw the digestive sytem. We had fun remembering all the different body parts and which body part does what.
Computing- Coding google logo, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 18th Jan 2022 @ 2:10pm
As part of our coding project, we coded our own google logo today. We followed different tutoptial videos to make the logos bounce, dance and much more. We had to change the sprites (letters) and the backdrop. We had a lot of fun.
Art- Sketching natural objects, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 18th Jan 2022 @ 10:26am
This half term in Art, Year 4 have been learning all about William Morris. Today we learnt about sketching, inanimate objects, and medium. After practrising our sketching skills (hatching, pressure and cross-hatching) by sketching an apple. We then went outside to choose a leaf. We chose a leaf as William Morris uses natural objects in his art work. We used our observation skills to look at the detail on the leaf, we then sketched it in our sketch books.
Jabberwocky performance, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 14th Jan 2022 @ 3:42pm
For the last 2 weeks we have been learning all about the nonesence poem The Jabberwocky. Yesterday, we split into groups and performed the poem. Our focus was on rhythm. We really enjoyed performing this poem and working in groups.
Invertebrate hunt, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 16th Nov 2021 @ 1:01pm
For our science topic we are looking at living things and their habitats. After learning about invetebrates went outside and looked at different invertebrates and thie habitat. We carefully placed them under magnifying glasses and used our classifying skills from the previous lessons to classify them. We then carefully put them back in their habitats.
St Matthew's Visit, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 1st Nov 2021 @ 10:14am
In Autumn 1 we visited St Matthew’s Church. This linked with our RE topic which was all about learning about different religions festivals and celebrations. During our visit at the church we were able to ask Reverend Kate all about baptism. It was interesting to learn about why and how baptisms are performed. We asked Rev. Kate about her own baptism and about baptisms that happen now. We learnt that over recent years that has been a lot less people getting baptised that in the past. Using a doll, Rev. Kate showed us the steps to performing a Baptism. We could ask questions as she went. We asked about the water and what makes it ‘Holy Water’, we then asked about the oil that is used. It was interesting to learn that year all the reverends from Manchester go to Manchester cathedral and get given the oil to use during baptisms.
Freddie Fit, by Miss McEvoy
Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 12:53pm
This week we enjoyed our Freddie Fit session. It was great to get moving and to learn all about your bodies and exercise.
