Class Four

Children Mental Health Assembly

Year 4 prepared an assembly for the rest of the school and parents about how to stay connected and how this helps our mental health.

Illustration session at Sefton Park Library

Food For thought competition

Last term, Year 4 took part in a Competition where they had to write a recipe. Now, with Matthew’s help, we are cooking our recipes for the rest of the school.

Penpal letters from Spain

Today, we opened the letters we received from Salesianos Ibi School. We were so excited! ¡Muchas gracias por las cartas!

World Book Day

Year 4 joined an online assembly with the brilliant Michael Rosen. We really enjoyed his stories and poems.

Researching birds

We also had the opportunity to go outside and do some bird watching to further our project research— what types of birds do we see around school that might use our birdhouses or bird feeders?

Researching structures

As part of our D.T. research we have explored two different structure building techniques, one using cardboard and the other using wooden toothpicks. We will decide which one works best for our projects.

Cardboard attachments

In D.T. we have been practicing making cardboard attachments as they will come in useful for building structures later on in our new topic.

Spanish pen pals

We are excited to be writing our introductory letters to a class in a school in Spain who we are going to be pen pals with. We are telling them all about ourselves and our interests and wondering if they will like the same things too!

Artefacts from our new book

We looked at some artefacts and vocabulary related to our new book so that we could make predictions about the story.

Yoga

We were lucky today as Miss Georgia brought in one of her special crystals for us to see. She told it was an amethyst all the way from Brazil and that to find crystals you have to crack open special rocks.

Gymnastics

Mayans’ life

We worked in teams to research and create a presentation about Mayans’ life. We shared our work with the rest of the class.

The Mayans

We are finding the Mayans fascinating.
Today, we worked in groups to determine how did the Maya manage to become so important.

We’re investigating pitch by making their own stringed instruments using different sized elastic bands.

Ukelele time!

Check this link to see us play the ukulele

We are creating a game!

Today we have MGL teaching us how to use repeated loops, variables and events to code our own game.

Gymnastics

This term we are doing gymnastics in PE. So much fun!

Christmas Party

Santa came to visit us

Sugar Awareness Week

Year 4 had today an assembly about Sugar Awareness. We learnt about how much sugar food have and what it is the impact in our bodies.

Let’s dance!

This term in PE we are doing dance. Our style is 1980s.

Art

Final pieces. Inspirations from Henri Rousseau and Beatriz Milhazes

Diversity Day

Today we read the book “Pelé”. We learnt and spoke about making a difference, how to overcome barriers and be resilient in life.

Romans in Britain

We created our own Roman shield. Lots of fun!

A museum in class

We have looked at different artefacts and we have discussed the relation with the Romans.

Trip to Chester – Romans in Britain

Trip to Chester- Romans in Britain

NSPCC Assembly

Today we spoke about what make us worried, sad or unsafe. We learnt what we can do about it.

Computing- Sphero

A fun morning with MGL designing and coding our Sphero.

Sugar content

We looked at the amount of sugar in different foods and drinks. We were shocked to see the amount of sugar in certain items. We discussed how much sugar we should have and ways to consume sugar in a healthier way.

Comprehension

Today our comprehension work was based on a text about the Romans in Britain.

Database

We explored what a database is and what is used for. We created our own one.

DT- Make

Today we made our own pizza using healthy ingredients.

Assembly: Celebrating our Differences and Overcoming Adversity

DT- Research

Today we tasted different pizzas and discussed what we liked and what we disliked about them.

Self-portraits

We researched the artist Roy Liechtenstein and looked at his style of art work. We created our own Pop Art self-portraits.

Diversity Day

Today we read the book “The Way Back Home”. We spoke about friendship and how to welcome new students in our school.

Hilbre Island

We have completed some fantastic field sketches after our trip to Hilbre Island this week.

Trip to Thurstaston

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

Categorising foods.

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.

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.

Structures

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

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!

Prediction

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

Writer’s Knowledge

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

Money

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Music

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

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!

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?”

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.?

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.

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.

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.

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.