Art Work

This afternoon in art, we have been working on our final piece. We have been layering our art by applying a foreground over our background.

Diversity Day – The Patchwork Quilt

During Diversity Day class 4 had the pleasure of reading ‘The Patchwork Path’ by Bettye Stroud. We discussed the word ‘Equality’ and what this represented. Class 4 then enjoyed creating our own patchwork quilt.

Schools Observatory

A big thank you to Schools Observatory for inviting us to their Christmas Space Lecture. We had lots of fun and found out lots of new facts and information.

A Special Visitor

We had a very special visitor in school on party day, every class had the opportunity to visit the grotto and they left with some gifts.

PE

This term class 4 are focusing on gymnastics, we can not wait to learn some new balances. With the help of spots we have been trying to master a cartwheel.?

Diversity Day

During Diversity Day class 4 looked at “a shelter for sadness” by Anne Booth. The book is about a small boy who creates a shelter for his sadness, a safe space where Sadness is welcome, where it can curl up small, or be as big as it can be, where it can be noisy or quiet, or anything in between. The boy can visit the shelter whenever he needs to, every day, sometimes every hour, and the two of them will cry and talk or just sit, saying nothing. We discussed whether you should ever pretend you don’t feel a certain emotion.

The Journey

We enjoyed looking at our hook reveal and making some amazing predictions on what our story could be about. What could all these items mean?

This term class 4 have the pleasure in reading “The Journey” by Francesca Sanna. This book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war.

History

Mayans

We are enjoying being introduced to our new history topic ‘ The Mayans’. We first refreshed our memories on some past events on our school timeline before we dive into our topic.
We are looking forward to learning more about the Mayans and their civilisation.

History: The Mayans

Today we enjoyed looking at all the ancient artefacts related to the Mayans. We particularly enjoyed learning how they created chocolate using the cacao plant and also the Large Triple Death Mask which represents the vital cycle of life.

Science

Electricity ?

This term class four will be looking at electricity. Throughout this term we will be constructing simple electrical circuits, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. We will also be learning how to recognise some common conductors and insulators, and we will be investigating conductors and insulators.
Today we have enjoyed identifying components in a simple circuit along with trying to make the bulb light up.

Circuits and Switches

This week we used electrical components to create a circuit. We then added in a switch to observe what happened to the bulb when the switch was open and closed.

Author Event

Mental Health and Well-being Week

Today we have been very lucky to listen to Natalie Denny, Natalie went into amazing detail of her characters and what goes into writing a published book. We then had the pleasure of listening to the first chapter of Natalie Denny’s new book, Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature!

This book is about when Keisha discovers that the trees in a nearby park are going to be cut down to make way for a carpark, the Bee Squad has its next cause. It’s time for some green activism to save the VITs … that’s Very Important Trees!

Year 4 Branching Databases

Year 4 looked at how to use a Branching database to search for and find information. Children had character descriptions and had to use a branching database to match the description to an image.

Diversity Day – Walk Tall

This diversity day, we used the story ‘Walk Tall’ as our stimulus to explore the P4C question ‘Do people always know that they are bully?”

Science Day!???‍??

For science day we had a special visit from Mr Stanley. We enjoyed watching Mr Stanley perform lots of different exciting experiments. We learned lots of new things about solids, liquids and gasses and much more!

Music

We had a great lesson practising our songs on the ukulele.

Artwork in the style of Antony Gormley

In art we have been studying the sculptor Antony Gormley.

We took pictures of our own poses and sketched the ones we want to use for our final design.

Art Sculptures

Today we finished our sculptures inspired by Antony Gormley’s Another Place.
It is so fantastic to see all of our designs come to life.

A World Above

We used a crucial moment in our story to consider the character’s feelings. Through role play, we were able to come up with descriptive phrases to describe the character’s reaction as opposed to stating “I felt …”

We are looking forward to using these in tomorrows incidental write. Well done everyone!

Halves and Quarters as Decimals

We looked at how halves and quarters can be represented on the hundred square, as tenths and as hundredths in order to write them as a decimal.

Money

We have been applying our knowledge of decimal numbers to money, looking at how £ and p can also be represented as a decimal.

Writer’s Knowledge

Class 4 used the Writer’s Knowledge wheel to generate accurate sentences that could be used in our own invention stories.

Prediction

We used the clues that had arrived in our classroom to write predictions about our new English story.

Structures

we had such a fantastic time at Formby learning how to build secure structures both on and off the ground. Lots of great problem solving!

Structures

We used what we learned last week about sturdy structures to create the base for our flood proof houses.

Structures

We began to add struts to our structures to create a raised platform. We remembered that triangles are stronger than squares so tried to incorporate them were possible.

Water Safety

Thank you to our visitors teaching us the importance of staying safe in and around water. We learnt techniques how to keep ourselves safe and what to do if we see anyone in need of help.

Categorising foods.

Trip to Thurstaston

Class 4 enjoyed a class trip to Thurstaston with a visit from Sasha!