Year 4: Blog items
Year 4 School Council Elections
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 3:46pm
Today we voted for our school council representatives. We voted for one representative in Maple and one from Laurel. The children listened well to the candidates manifestos yesterday and were respectful when voting in the school hall today. Well done to the winners!
Year 4 - Fantasy setting descriptions
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 10:42am
This week, we have started our next writing journey. For the first few days, we will be immersing ourselves in examples of fantasy setting descriptions. The children have been brilliant at picturing what the setting descriptions have been describing.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 9:23am
In year 4 this year, we are really focusing on handwriting. We are doing handwriting lessons daily to try and help improve the children's handwriting. We are mainly focusing on letter formation, but we are also pushing the children to write the neatest they can and not to rush. You will notice when the children bring their spelling homework home each week, there is an opportunity for them to practise their handwriting with their spellings.
Date: 27th Sep 2022 @ 8:31am
The 26th September is European Languages Day! We celebrated by discussing why we have different languages and how many there are across Europe. We had a go at saying Hello and Goodbye in numerous languages and then we focused on Spanish phrases. The children were brilliant!
Date: 23rd Sep 2022 @ 5:00pm
We started our Computing journey today and the children impressed Miss Crystal and Mr Bamber immensely! They listened extremely carefully and followed instructions so well. The children learned how to use Google Slides to make a Stop Motion Animation. They used one slide per frame of animation to create an animation of the sun rising and moon.
Date: 22nd Sep 2022 @ 11:05am
Year 4 did amazing in Rugby this week! Tom (from Wigan Warriors) said that it was a tough lesson because there's some difficult footwork and passing, but we were the best year group he's ever done it with. Well done Year 4! Maybe some future rugby stars on our hands!
Year 4 Queen Elizabeth II tribute
Date: 21st Sep 2022 @ 1:09pm
On Friday, we learned more about Queen Elizabeth II's love for corgis and horses. Over her lifetime, the Queen had over 60 dogs and numerous horses - her favourite being Burmese a Canadian horse. The children used numerous images showing this love for animals to create collages. We think they look fantastic!
Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 4:03pm
This week, we found out why Boudica revolted against the Romans. We also looked at the way she has been described in the past and what image we have of her. We decided that she is strong, brave and determind. We then had the opportunity to experience a Now, Press, Play session all about Boudica's revolt. We were a boy, who's father was fighting for the Romans as Boudica revolted.
Date: 20th Sep 2022 @ 3:58pm
We have been looking at partitioning in Maths, but this week we have been looking at flexible where it is as straight forward as splitting a number using the place value chart. For example, if we partitioned 2894, we would probably do 2000+800+90+4. Flexible partitioning means that we look at numbers differently. So we could partition 2894 by doing 1000+ 1800+90+4 or 1100+1700+80+14 - there are many ways!
Year 4 The start of our French journey
Date: 13th Sep 2022 @ 7:40pm
We recapped counting to 10 in French, then we looked at the French phonics. This term we are focusing on French phonics! After looking at the pronunciation of the alphabet today - we focused on French vowels.
Year 4's Trip to Boundary's Roman Museum
Date: 13th Sep 2022 @ 7:33pm
Today Redcliffes turned into Boundary's Roman museum. The children had the chance to explore lots of aspects of Roman life and their invasion and reign over Britain. Children looked at artefacts and examples of lots of Roman equipment, utensils, coins and a fantastic replica of a legionary's amour - some even tried it on! It was SO heavy!
Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 11:33am
We started our Rubgy lessons today with Tom from Wigan Warriors. We will be learning lots of new rugby skills over this half term when Tom comes in every Thursday! We absolutely loved it. We learned how to hold the rugby ball and even started to tag each other with it when we were trying to score a try!
Year 4 immerse themselves in non-chronological reports
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 2:53pm
Date: 6th Sep 2022 @ 4:22pm
We are delighted that over summer our new History timelines have been installed in the school main hall. We have had two installed. One is about world history and includes events such as world wars, the invention of the internet and legalisation of gay marriage. The other timeline is all about our local area of Blackpool. Underneath our Blackpool timeline we have maps of how the area of Layton and Grange Park has changed too!
Year 4 discover what solids, liquids and gases are
Date: 6th Sep 2022 @ 4:12pm
Today, after learning about solids, liquids and gases and their properties, we looked at all three states. We discovered that the particles of a solid are closely packed together, the particles of a liquid are close together but able to move and the particles of a gas are spread out all over.
Remember, Solids,liquids and gases........ they all matter!!
Year 4 find out why the Romans invaded Britain
Date: 6th Sep 2022 @ 4:08pm
We started off our History topic this year by investigating why the Romans invaded Britain. The children firstly looked at our brand new History timeline in the hall and where the Romans are within the history timeline compared to their previous learning about the Stone Age, Iron Age and WW2. Then we investigated and found out why the Romans came here. Reasons included; we have great land, lots of cattle and lots of gold.
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 5:00pm
In PE we have been continuing with our athletics. We have begun to learn about throwing techniques and have mastered our sprinting and hurdling skills. We have had some good competition and some great sportsmanship this half term!
Year 4 - Sacrifice and Temptation
Date: 15th Jul 2022 @ 4:55pm
In RE we have been learning about sacrifice and temptation. We have looked at when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness and the importance of him suffering for his people. Most recently we have learned about the life of Oscar Romero who was an Archbishop that fought for equality in El Salvador.
Date: 11th Jul 2022 @ 7:47am
This week we had our Heritage Day. It was a fantastic day learning all about the history of Doreen Lofthouse and Fisherman's Friend. We began the day by learning all about how Fisherman's Friend are made and how they first came to be. We then tried a lot of the different flavours (some were much better than others)! Then, we created our own timelines to show the development of Fisherman's Friend over time and how Doreen Lofthouse and her charitable donations benefited the local commnity for years after her death.
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 7:45am
This week we had some coaches from Wigan Warriors come in and run a rugby workshop. The coaches were fantastic and our Year 4's had a brilliant time! We practised our ball handling skills, agility and hand-eye coordination.
Date: 4th Jul 2022 @ 7:31am
Sports Day! What a fantastic day we had. Our Year 4's certainly tried their best and got into the spirit of sports day. Some fantastic performances and sporting events and what made it even better was that parents/carers were able to come and watch again this year!
Year 4 - Using and Applying in Computing
Date: 26th Jun 2022 @ 6:53pm
This half term our computing topic is 'Using and Applying'. This week we focussed on using a range of useful tools and shortcuts in Google Docs to create a table that will help us store information. We learned how to create a table with the correct amount of cells, changed the font and size for the subheadings, inputted our data and changed the orientation of the page. Some great computing skills shown by our Year 4's!
Date: 26th Jun 2022 @ 6:45pm
This week in our Science lesson we revisited our Sound topic. We recapped and discusses how soundwaves are made, how we hear sound and how sound travels. We looked at the different part sof the ear and their function and finished off with a quiz. A great lesson with our Year 4's and some fantastic participation and retreival skills from our long term memory!
Year 4 Boucle d'Or Et Les Trois Ours
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 8:03am
This half term in french we are focussing on a whole range of new vocabulary. We are using the the well known children's book, Goldilocks and the Three Bears to discuss and learn this new vocabulary. This week we listened to the story in French and then with our partners, tried to match the pictures to the words in French. We listened to the story again to check our answers and finished off with an interactive game on the whiteboard.
Date: 20th Jun 2022 @ 7:59am
This half term in Science, we are starting our consolidation unit, recapping everything that we have learnt over the course of the year. This weeks was Electricity. We had a great lesson and has some really good discussions about what we remembered from the start of the year. We spoke about appliances that use electricity, conductors and insulators and labelled the different parts of a circuit. Then we made a range of different circuits using condustors and insulators to put our theories to the test!
