Year 4: Blog items
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:38am
This week, we typed up our hot writes of our Poem on a Theme. The theme was about rivers - linking to our Geography unit. Have a look at some of the amazing figurative language the children have used.
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:15pm
Year 4 completed art work based on the story 'The Dot' which was told to us in assembly.
The children used ideas from Kandinsky to form patterns focusing on line and colour.
The children then drew their portraits on larger circles and used one colour to show depth by using tint, tone and shade.
Year 4 - No Pen Morning - Maths
Date: 23rd Apr 2025 @ 5:09pm
Yer 4, used cuisenaire rods for a no-pen morning in maths. It was a a great way to encourage hands-on, visual learning. Pupils explored fractions. They were given different tasks such as identifying fractions and finding what parts make up wholes.
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 10:18am
For no pen morning, we used our oracy skills in both Reading into Writing and Guided Reading. We are learning about poems on a theme in Reading into Writing and we had a poem about Spring in Guided Reading. In Reading into Writing, it was over to us! It was time for our shared write. We used our figurative language skills and typed a few verses ecah. Then we put them together as one poem and performed them.
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 8:54am
This half term, Year 4 have been learning how they would describe where they live in French. The children prepared a conversation in French in pairs or small groups. They listened to each other carefully and responded back to questions.
The children used the sentence stem Chez moi il y a and Chez moi il n' y a pas de which means In my home there is or there is not a ________
Year 3 and Year 4 - Police Horses
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:11am
Recently, we had a fantastic day meeting some very important members of our community—the police horses and officers from Lancashire Constabulary! It was so exciting to see these magnificent horses up close. The officers explained that police horses can be seen at big events, making sure everyone is happy and safe. They even showed us how the horses received their training! We learned that these brave animals and their human partners work together to protect us. What an incredible experience it was!
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am
On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 11:56am
What a great half term of art for Year 4. We have been exploring a number of different mediums this half term all with a 'Feast' theme. We have made and painted clay foods and we have also created a communal picnic of foods.
Date: 28th Mar 2025 @ 10:30am
Today we held our second Spelling Bee of the school year. 4 children were chosen from each group to represent their house and were given 3 spellings each. They have been learning these words over the last few weeks and we could all tell. The children did brilliantly and did themselves (and their house) proud. We are already looking forward to the final Spelling Bee in the Summer term.
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 9:17am
This week in science, we looked at pitch. We learned that it is how high or low a sound is. Pitch is determined by the frequency of the sound waves. Higher frequency sound waves produce a higher pitch, while lower frequency waves produce a lower pitch.
We compared two straws—one short and one long. We noticed a difference in pitch when we blew through them.
The short straw produces a higher-pitched sound because the air vibrates faster inside it, creating sound waves with a higher frequency.
The long straw produces a lower-pitched sound because the air vibrates more slowly, creating sound waves with a lower frequency.
We also looked at what happens when a bolt is placed into a balloon. The children predicted what would happen and why. When a bolt is placed inside a balloon and the balloon is shaken or spun quickly, the bolt moves around and creates a vibrating sound. When the bolt moves faster, the vibrations happen more frequently, producing a higher pitch.
Year 4 - Egyptian dance sequence
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 8:50am
This week, we used all our learning so far to start to put together a dance sequence. We thought about gods/goddesses, hieroglyphics, making the pyramids and what all those things mean. We created a mind map of ideas on the board, then started putting our sequences together.
Year 4 - Science and Geography Day
Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 5:04pm
In the morning, we completed a map starter. We had to spot places and routes on a map. Then we had a very special visit from Thomas, the Gorilla, and some of his rainforest friends. We started the day meeting Thomas and learning all about his habitat in the rainforest. We were shocked to hear about the impact human behaviour has on our world and Thomas’ home.
After, we looked at climate change - how it is caused and the implications it has for humans and animals.
In the afternoon, we made videos using a green screen! They had bananas thrown at then by some very cheeky gorilllas and some were even chased by elephants!
Year 4 - Who built the pyramids?
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 10:59am
This week, we looked at the questions "Who built the pyramids?" There's a lot of opinions and films which depict them being built by slaves, however, we looked at some other evidence which historians have discovered and decided for ourselves...
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 9:12am
This half term, Year 4 have been focusing on dance in PE. We have explored and created characters and narratives in response to a range of stimuli. We have used body movements to represent Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, composed short sequences with partners and used unison and mirror techniques.
The children have been interested to further develop their knowledge of the Egyptians in PE incorporating two of their favourite subjects!
Date: 10th Mar 2025 @ 8:33pm
This week, we looked at what happens to sounds the further away they get. We used the school hall and measured (using a sound meter) the sound (in decibels) of four different sources. We used a whistle, a drum, a whispered sentence and crumpling paper. Using a trundle wheel, we measured 5m, 10m, 15m and 18m. We found that the further away the sound got, the more quiet it became. This is because the sound energy starts to run out - this is called dissipation.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 5:22pm
Year 4 celebrated World Book Day by talking part in a BBC Live Lesson. During the live lesson, children from around the UK were reading at the same time! The childremn discussed their favourite genres and places to read.
The class then read an information text about the benefits of reading and created an acrostic poem using the information gathered.
Date: 3rd Mar 2025 @ 3:13pm
This week, we had a visit from Lydia who owns and teaches at Euphoria Dance and Therapy. It was great having Lydia in telling us all about how she became not only a dance teacher but now owns and runs her own dance business. The children listened intently and asked some great questions. Each half term now we are going to have visitors as we explore lots of different careers.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 10:04am
In Oracy, we played a game of ‘Taboo’ to start. We had to use appropriate vocabulary to describe things on a card but we were not allowed to use some common words! Next, we practised how we would say a sentence in different ways. Finally, our main task was focusing on reasoning. We had to decide what we would do if we ruled the world and give a reason why. Other children in class then had to disagree with the statement and explain their challenge.
Year 4 - Introduction to Ancient Egypt
Date: 25th Feb 2025 @ 3:35pm
Information we found on our information run:
- The people that ruled are called Pharaohs
- The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture of writing called hieroglyphics
- The pharaohs stopped ruling when Romans took control about 2000 years ago
- Pyramid contained the dead pharaoh who was buried with jewels and objects that were often robbed
- The ancient Egyptians lived in mud houses with flat roofs
- Most of Egypt is a desert of sand and rocks
- The river Nile floods every year. As the water goes down after the flood it leaves behind very rich soil
- The boy king Tutankhamun is the most famous pharaoh
- The ancient Egypt had lots of gold
- The people were ruled by a king called a pharaoh
- There were people living in Egypt about 5,000 years ago
- The ancient Egyptians used a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics
- The most important crops to the ancient Egyptians were wheat and barley from which they made bread and beer
In the smart task we found these things which were incorrect:
- Measuring tape
- Our alphabet
- Tractor
- Dome shaped buildings
- Watering hose
- Books
- Flask
- Fishing rod
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 2:39pm
This week we started our maths with an assembly based on the book 'How mahy jelly beans?' by Andrea Menotti.
Year 4 then took part in a 'jelly bean' based maths lesson recapping their statistics skills. The children used a tally chart to collect data. The children found which jelly bean flavour was most popular and created a bar chart graph to show. Finally, the children analysed the graph to answer questions based on the data collected.
Year 4 - Safer Internet Day 2025
Date: 11th Feb 2025 @ 11:48am
This year's theme: Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online.
We started the day with an assembly, then back in class we watched a live lesson which had lots of tips about how to remain safe online and not be drawn in by scammers and phishers. We learned how to spot scams and how to make sure our passwords online were strong.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am
Last Monday some of our KS2 children wowed audiences in The Winter Gardens for Schools Alive. The children have worked incredibly hard since September to create a piece called ‘We are all in this together!’. They should be very proud of all they achieved, well done!
Date: 4th Feb 2025 @ 3:59pm
This week is RSE week. Our theme for RSE in Year 4 is puberty. We split into a class of girls and a class of boys so that everyone felt comfortable talking about their own puberty journey. Both classes learnt about both male and female puberty. We started the lesson by looking at the lifecycle and deciding where in the lifecycle we think puberty happens. Then we looked at how female and male bodies change on the outside as well as on the inside.
Date: 4th Feb 2025 @ 3:56pm
This week, we had a go at composing our own music using Charanga for the song we have been learning 'Bringing Us Together'.
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 1:04pm
Year 4 took part in their first Forest School of the year today.
The children built dens, an musical theatre, played in the mud kitchen and spotted creatures. The children really enjoyed their time outdoors despite the mud!
