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Teacher: Mr Hansen
Teacher: Miss Haigh
Year 4 teaching assistants: Miss Turner, Miss Hirst, Miss Croft & Mrs Croft
Reading at home: Reading records and levelled reading books will be sent home on a Monday and returned the following Monday
Home learning: A home learning sheet – containing a maths and literacy activity – will be sent home every Monday and is due back the following Monday.
Multiplication tables: Year 4 will complete a statutory online times table check at the end of Year 4. By this point, children are expected to know their times tables up to 12 x 12.
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check Info
PE: Our PE days are Tuesday and Friday (come in PE kit). We have swimming on a Tuesday (classes attend alternate half terms, 4b will attend first – up until the Christmas holidays), each child will need a full swimming kit including towel.
Commando Joes: Year 4’s Co Jo day will be on a Friday.
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We have had another busy but great week in Year 4! This week has been anti-bullying week, Remembrance Day and Children In Need. For anti-bullying week this year, we have focused on respect and how it’s okay to be different. We role played a range of scenarios demonstrating respectful ways to handle situations. For Remembrance Day, we looked at the life of local WW1 soldier and cricketer, Major William Booth. We then went on to look at information on the PDSA website about the Dickin medal for gallantry, awarded to animals who have served and shown unbelievable bravery in the face of war. There are some really beautiful stories that the children researched and created information texts about. We rounded up our week by getting our moves on in our PE dance unit; we created freeze frames demonstrating a range of synchronised balances and experimented with different ways to move and transition between each balance. Take a look at 4b’s week below:
What a fantastic start to our second term! On Monday, we had an exciting visit from D-Side Dave who came in to talk to our children about keeping safe online. Our Year 4’s are enjoying starting their new, exciting topics. This term we are focusing on ‘Why classification is critical to our world’ and have begun using classification keys to classify leaves using their main characteristics. In Literacy, we have been reading James and the Giant Peach: children have explored James’ awful aunts and have used powerful adjectives and adverbials to create diary entries from the perspective of James.
Our author of the term is Roald Dahl and our class reader is: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.
What’s on this term?
Our main focuses of learning this term are Science (Why is classification critical and how can we hep our world?), Geography (Where would you rather live? Comparing UK settlements ), Music (Composing with colour) and PSHE (Physical health and wellbeing).
Science: Why is classification critical and how can we hep our world?
Y4 HT1 living things and their habitats
Geography: Where would you rather live? Comparing UK settlements
Y4 Counties KO
Music: Composing with colour
SUM_KO_Composing_with_colour (1)
PSHE: Physical health and wellbeing
Physical health and wellbeingWhat a fantastic last week of the half term! Our Year 4 children have produced some wonderful finished comic strips in English, all about the Ancient Greeks, focusing on fronted adverbials. We also celebrated Black History Month by looking at how the Olympics has changed for the better and learning about the history of discrimination and racism in sport. Year 4 created fact files all about inspirational famous black athletes that have overcome challenges to succeed. Take a look at some of our work below:
This week, Year 4 have enjoyed their design and technology drop down day. They ended their Greek art topic by creating Greek god, hero and beast mechanisms. They produced some amazing moving mechanisms and will hopefully be bringing them home this week.
This week, Year 4 have been getting their ‘thinking like a scientist’ caps on. We have been exploring whether sound travels better through solids or gasses and have created string phones to test this. We experimented with the tension of the string and the distance we travelled from each other to see how that affected the volume of the sound. We discovered that sound travels faster through a solid.
This week, in Year 4, we have created some AMAZING art work inspired by the work of artist William Blake . The children have been focusing on using different grades of pencils and experimenting with line and tone to create their own mythical creature drawings using observations from different parts of various animals. We have also started looking at our Black History Heroes – this week, year 4 researched the achievements of author and poet Benjamin Zephaniah and Valerie Bloom and artist Stephen Wiltshire.
Year 4 have had another successful week of learning. We have been planning our own Greek Myths in English, learning all about democracy and why we have laws in PSHE and examining ancient Greek artefacts in history. In science, we have been exploring how sound travels. We created ear gongs to see how sound travels through different mediums, such as air, string, and solids. We found that when we hit the spoon against the hard surface of the hanger, the vibration travelled through the string and into our ear, allowing us to hear the sound through the string instead of the air.
Year 4 have had a wonderful two days learning all about the 1960’s. We have created 1960’s fashion catalogues, learned all about the moon landing in 1969, created travel brochures for popular holiday destinations from the 1960’s, learned how to dance the twist and created and tasted 1960’s style appetizers (stuffed tomatoes and ants on a log…don’t worry we didn’t really eat ants!).
Did you know that Park Spring first opened the year that Mary Poppins was released? Take a look at some of the fabulous Mary Poppins’ outfits that the children wore and some of the fantastic activities that they have participated in below:
Year 4 have had Glorious Greek day learning all about the ancient Greeks. Our Year 4’s have had a wonderful time tasting traditional Greek cuisine; playing ancient Greek games; exploring ancient Greek mythology; learning Greek Greetings; making wreaths like the ancient Greeks would have worn; and learning how to Greek dance to Zorba the Greek.
Take a look at some of the fabulous Greek outfits that the children wore below:
What a fantastic start to the year! Our Year 4’s have settled in to the new term really well and are enjoying the new, exciting topics. This term we are focusing on the Glorious Greeks! In Literacy, we have been exploring Greek mythology: children have looked at a range of mythical beasts and have used powerful adjectives and interesting adverbs to describe them.
Our author of the term is Marcia Williams. Our class readers are: Who let the Gods out by Maz Evans and Beasts of Olympus Beast Keeper by Lucy Coats
What’s on this term?
Our main focuses of learning this term are History (The Ancient Greeks), Science (Can you feel the vibrations? – sound), Art (Ancient Greek art) and PSHE (Identity, society and democracy).
History: The Glorious Greeks Y4 Ancient Greeks (1)
Science: Can you feel the vibrations? Y4 HT4 Sound
Art: Ancient Greek art Art KO Yr 4 Greeks
PSHE: Identity, society and democracyPSHE Identity, society and democracy
Years 3,4,5 an 6 were so lucky to go see Sleeping Beauty yesterday at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford. The children really enjoyed the show, and smiled and laughed lots. We are very grateful for Read more…
Well done to our Black History Month competition winners and entries! I am incredibly proud of your hard work and enthusiasm in researching your chosen hero and presenting them, AND in your own time. Amazing! Read more…
The Summer Reading Challenge at Pudsey Library has began, please watch this video to find out more about the challenge. Kate at the library is looking forward to seeing you over the Summer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPf0dGrYCv4
Year 4 children in school have had a very busy half term. They have created some fantastic writing – about the Romans and Murton Park (which they typed up on the computers in the ICT Read more…
What an amazing few weeks my remote learners have had in Year 4. We have written a leaflet about Romans, we have flown through our maths learning, and today – We shared some of our Read more…
