Year 4: Blog items
Year 4- Congratulations Albie!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 5:24pm
Earlier this year, Albie was entered into a creative writing competition called 'Once Upon A Dream- A Collection of Fantastic Words!' He wrote a poem which was about the dangers that our planet faces and how we can save it. This week, we recieved the fantastic news that Albie has been selected for his work to be published in a book! We are so proud of you Albie and we look forward to buying some copies of the book for our library!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 1:52pm
For our annual Heritage Day, our key question was 'Who are Blackpool FC?' We started the day by researching what the different parts of the Blackpool badge represent and then researched things such as the name of their stadium, famous players, which trophies they've won and who their current manager is. We then used our artist skills to show our findings.
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 7:36pm
Our key question was 'How do we get from Boundary to the beach and what will we see along the way?'
We found our route using maps in the morning and after lunch we walked the route. Along the way, using clipboards, we wrote down examples of human features and physical features we saw. We decided that there were much more human features than physical.
Year 4 - Together Time (Maple)
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 9:55am
We started our Geography Day during Together Time today. Our question is 'How do we get from Boundary Primary School to the beach and what will we see along the way?' We discussed what fieldwork is and then used maps to mark out our route for our walk this afternoon.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 3:41pm
What a fab week we've had! Not only has it been Sports Day this week, but we researched Paralympian Kadeena Cox, played rounders, had British Vault champion Izzy come in and speak to us, played wheelchair rugby and learned about sea safety from people are the Coastguard.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 1:24pm
We had a great morning in the sun for our Sports Day. The children showed good perseverance and we even saw some people supporting each other when they were unsure what to do. Well done everyone!
Date: 23rd Jun 2024 @ 5:27pm
This year's theme for Music Day was connection! We had a fantastic day learning about syncopated rhythms. We clapped our own rhythms to a nursery rhyme and then created syncopated rhythms with body percussion and a range of different instruments.
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 2:17pm
A theme of identity! We've had a great day exploring mark making and then creating our own self-portraits.
Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 11:58am
What a great morning! We had Mr Cooper (teacher) and Miss Ogden (TA) in Maple teaching us about capital letter and full stops, then about lines of symmetry. After break, they even helped to teach use about reading skills. Thank you Year 5! You did a great job.
Date: 18th Jun 2024 @ 2:22pm
What a great opportunity we've had today! Team Rubicon came in and showed us how to skateboard. We learned the basics about keeping our feet wide apart and being confident, then we were shown some tricks. The adults were really proud of us all giving it a go and Oliver said he was really impressed with us.
Date: 13th Jun 2024 @ 9:12pm
This Science this half term, Year 4 are recapping some of the units that have covered this year. This week, we completed a flashback about the states of matter and their properties. Then, we explained the process of freezing and melting by making ice cream!
Date: 13th Jun 2024 @ 2:29pm
Coats and rain in June! But it didn't stop our Forest School fun this week. We have four sessions this half term. Today we did some activities to show off our listening skills before some free time fruit picking.
Date: 21st May 2024 @ 4:05pm
This half term in computing, Year 4 have veen learning about what data is and why it is important to log it. This week, we looked at two graphs which measured temperature and light. We discussed what questions we could ask about this data and what each graph is telling us. Then, we interpreted these graphs and inputted the data that they showed on Chromebooks.
Year 4 - What is the link between distance and volume?
Date: 20th May 2024 @ 3:37pm
Today, we looked at the link between distance and volume. We discovered that the further away a sound is the more the soundwaves dissipate and therefore the volume is lower.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 7:42pm
Over the past couple of weeks, Year 4 have been learning about what data logging is. We discussed that data is information that is collected to analyse something and that we use data loggers to do this. Then, we walked around the school and recorded the temperature of the school and then analysed the results. We have also discussed some of the challenges we may have when collecting data in a range of environments.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 7:19pm
Over the past couple of weeks, Year 4 have listened, appraised and practised to sing 'Oh Happy Day.' Firstly, we listened to the song and then compared it to the version that was sung in the film 'Sister Act.' Then, we split into two groups and learnt to sing the song.
Year 4 - Relationship between energy and volume
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 2:46pm
Today we did lots of different experiments to find the relationship between energy and volume. We discovered that the more energy the louder the volume.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 2:44pm
Today we continued our 'En Classe' unit in French. But today we focused on our speaking skills and how to say when we DO NOT have certain items.
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 1:02pm
What a great morning we have had with Krishna our Hindu visitor. Firstly, we had a whole school assembly where we recapped the story of Diwali and were introduced to the characters. Then, we introduced to the Hindu shrine and the murtis on the shrine. After break, we had a go at dressing up and had such good fun learning why Hindus wearing the items they do.
Year 4 - What is it like in a rainforest city?
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 8:56am
What an interesting lesson learning about the city of Manaus, which is situated in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. We couldn't believe that 2 million people live there! We looked at human and physical features of the city and compared them with life here in Blackpool.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 9:34am
This week, Year 4 have listened and responded to 'O Euchari.' We discussed the Medieval style of music and where it sat on the music timeline. Then, we learnt all about the life of Hildegard of Bingen, the composer of 'O Euchari,' and why her music was so different to others of that era. We walked around the classroom to find interesting facts about her life and created a class mindmap using post it notes.
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:50am
Today we completed the 'Improve a WABOLL' part of our journey. We worked collaboratively to find errors and improve muddled up poems about rivers.
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 1:56pm
Year 4 have had a great time during no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we started our next journey which to write a poem based on rivers. We looked at a range of different poems and discussed common features such as alliteration, personification and rhyming.
In Maths, we learnt how to represent hundredths as fractions. Firstly, we use base ten blocks to understand how to represent hundredths as fractions. Then, we used our digital literacy skills to use rekenrek on our chromebooks. We discussed how many beads were on each side of the rekenrek and talked about how to represent each of the sides as a fraction.
Date: 16th Apr 2024 @ 8:39am
More practise with close questions and laying out branching databases. We realised they get their name from an upside down tree!
