“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
Psalm 118:24
Hello and welcome to Year 4!
Your teacher this year is Miss Smith and your LSA is Miss Davies
| Day of the week | What should I bring to school today? |
|---|---|
| Monday | Reading book, PE Kit. Spelling homework given out |
| Tuesday | Reading book, PE Kit, |
| Wednesday | Reading book. Return Homework |
| Thursday | Reading book |
| Friday | Reading book.Homework given out |
Click on the link below for details of the Year 4 curriculum.
Useful websites to continue your learning at home:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?AgeGroup=3
https://nrich.maths.org/primary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
There are also lots of learning games on Purple Mash. Your child’s teacher will be able to provide login details for your child.
On Wednesday, Year 4 visited our Parish church of St Clare’s. One of the parishioners, Cathy, showed us around and described the special areas of the church. She also showed us where the first 2 Sacraments of Baptism and First Holy Communion take place.
As part of the Creation and Covenant branch, we studied the work of Hannah Dunnett, a Christian artist who uses simple images and words of scripture. We created our own versions and included our own blessings and pieces of scripture.
Today, Year 4 took a pilgrimage through our school, we took rubbing of bark and leaves we had collected as part of our Jubilee pledge day. We all wrote pledges, saying how we cook be Pilgrims of Hope in our school, using Catholic Social Teaching. We also created a 3-d representation of the Jubilee logo #Jubilee
Year 4 revisted the school mission today, we read how Matthew spoke about letting you light shine for the world and talked about what it meant. We then wrote acrostic poems based on our core values of Faith, Aspire and Respect. We then draw candles and wrote how we could let our light shine at school and at home.
we are certainly enjoying our new PE unit ‘keeping fit’. How many times can you accurately catch a bean bag in 1 minute?
Today we had an assembly and workshop with Anna from Mary’s Meals. We learnt how the charity started and how it is feeding over 2 million children a day in other parts of the world for only 10p per day! It only cost £19.15 to feed a child 1 meal per day for a year.
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Today we had an inter-house matball competition, led by a member of the LSSP. We had a great time and at the same time learned lots of new skills. Scotland came out the overall winners.
Today we had a visit from Jackie from CAFOD. She came to tell us all about this year’s Big Lent Walk fundraising event – buying ‘glitter chickens’ for villages in Kenya and to hold workshops for years 2 and 4, learning about the Jubile Year of Hope.
Year 4 have been learning to dribble and push pass in hockey this week, not as easy as it sounds.
During English, we analysed extracts from ‘The Girl of Ink and Stars’, identifying what language features make a good setting description.
Year 4 did not pick up a pen today! All learning was done through debate, performance poetry, computing and science investigation. Who says you have to write everything down.
Year 4 began their unit of basketball by practising their dribbling skills. Have you tried dribbling backwards!
Year 4 had lots of fun learning maths today, we played times table hopscotch, took part in Supermover maths sessions and played class tournaments on TT Rocktars. Who knew maths could be fun!
Year 4 went to the World Museum Liverpool to take part in an Ancient Egyptian workshop, we got the chance to look around the Egyptian display and handle some real artefacts
Year 4 worked together to find out the characteristics of the different vertebrate groups
Year 4 became historians today when they used a variety of sources to research Ancient Civilisations.
Year 4 have had a busy first week, we developed our own class charter, we picked articles from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that we thought we needed in our class. We created pictures of a famous Liverpool landmark using a variety of techniques (can you guess where it is?), consolidated our knowledge of 4-digit numbers using manipulatives, learned what partitive nouns are and found out that ‘Being different is the best thing ever!’ What a week!
year 4 used a variety of readily available resources to create a simulation of what happens in the digestive system. It was very messy!
Year 4 enjoyed a session with Food for Thought. They made vegetable stir fry with noodles, chopping, cooking, mixing and of course eating their incredible dishes. They really enjoyed learning about how to cook safely and how to make a balanced dish
At long last the weather held out and we had our school sports day. The children took part in running race, egg and spoon race and a sack race. They all had a fabulous time, with the parents cheering them on all the way. Photographs courtsey of 2 of our Year 4 pupils. The next David Bailey.
As part of our geography about a locality study within Europe, year 4 took a virtual tour of Paris, using an on-line digital map. ‘We ‘visited’ all the major tourist attractions and worked out the best route to match our itinerary.
Today Year 3 and 4 took part in a music concert, they showed their talents playing the ukele and the trumpets.
Year 4 had a visit from My bnk today showing us different bank accounts and what to use to buy goods. Are you a spender or a saver?
As part of Health and Fitness week Year 4 created their own flavour of humous by adding different ingredients. They chopped a variety of vegetables and used them for dipping. Not a dish was .left!
As part of our daily spelling lesson, we use “Supermovers”. It’s a fun way to learn spelling rules and exercise at the same time. Year 4 love it!
Year 4 began the day with walking a mile around the school. It set us up well for the beginning of our Health and fitness week.
Year 4 investigated how sound was made using tuning forks, water elastic bands and rice on a drum! They discovered that sound is caused by an object vibrating.
Year 4 took part in a sponsored walk to raise money for our local charity ‘Cash 4 kids’ who help children in our local area. We’ll done Year 4
Year 4 investigated which materials conducted electricity and made the bulb light. We discovered that metal is a good conductor, but plastic, paper, wood and fabric are not.
We sorted animals into a criteria we decided, then we learned that each animal is classified according to its characteristics.
We enjoy our ukulele sessions with Mr Storey from the Music service, learning notes, chords and songs.
As part of of Geography Field work studies, we looked at landmarks in our local area and sketched the Gurdwara near us.
We took part in a conscience alley activity trying to influence the woodcutter in the story.
As part of the Liverpool Learning partnership event, Year 4 had a virtual visit from Liverpool author Natalie Denny. She talked to us about her first book and what inspired her to become a writer.
We studied how photo frames were constructed and used our knowledge of struts and braces to design our own photo frames.
We used the bust of Nefertiti as a stimulus for creating our own busts from clay.
Year 4 having fun in the snow, for some children it was their first time experiencing making snowmen.
