Year 4 | St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School

Each of the station retell part of Jesus' Passion (His suffering and death) through images and words. Today we followed these stages and discussed the journey that Jesus took and reflected upon them and remembered. The Stations are more than the retelling of a story; they are a prayerful participation in the the event that lies at the heart of Christianity - Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.

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Lenten Assembly - The Last Supper

Today we shared the story of The Last Supper with the school in our assembly. We followed the journey of Jesus in Holy Week, washing the feet of his disciples, the origins of the Eucharist and His betrayal by Judas. Mrs KP was incredibly proud of how well we told the story and the respectful way in which we did it.

Y4 Lenten Assembly 24

What do you like to listen to? Music Homework

Our homework this half term was to write and share our favourite music and musicians with each other. We had some fantastic projects with some ingenious instruments! We were treated to a quiz on Ed Sheeran and a Muse Tribute Artist. We ranged from Queen to Taylor Swift (via Michael Jackson and The Backstreet Boys!) Here are some of the projects.

Y4 Homework - Music

Forest School 22nd March 24

Our final forest school session before Mrs Topping leaves. It was a sad day but we certainly made the most of it. We began with delicious apple dough balls fried on the fire as well as perfectly popped popcorn with Mrs T's ingenious popcorn machine. As we waited for them to cook, we had an impromptu campfire sing which included some Christmas songs, Easter hymns and a brilliant rendition of Si Njay Njay Njay! We may have all auditioned for the choir at the same time...

Then it was on to spending time and makind memories with our friends. Today we continued to make log pets, build dens, make delicious concoctions in the mud kitchen and a little bit of maintenance on Mud Island. A couple of highlights were seeing a frog in the pond area and the creation of a boat to sail in the moat! We finished off we a hot chocolate in the fire circle.

We also made Mrs Topping a sign of some of our favourite moments to share with her as a lasting memory of us and to say a BIG thank you! We will miss you!

Y4 Forest School 22.3.24

BSL - British Sign Language Week

To help support and raise awareness for BSL, we took part in an online lesson to learn some sign language. We were taught greetings, the alphabet, colour, animals/pets and members of the family. Some of us were brave enough to stand at the front to sign something for the rest of the class to work out. We were pretty impressive!

Y4 BSL Lesson

Science - Digestion

Today we 'made' poo! We have been learning about the digestive system and so today we followed what happens to our food when we eat it. It was messy and smelly but really good fun! Can you tell which of household items were used for which part of the body?

Y4 Making Poo 24

Forest School 15th March 24

Our penultimate forest school session and today we toasted bagels - or as we like to call them 'baggles'. Mrs Topping showed us how to make dandelions and then helped us to make some log pets. We continued to develop Mud Island and some great cuppas were on offer in the mud kitchen. Lots of chances to build dens, play with our friends and enjoy the mud. A swimming pool was created and a bit of fishing took place in the moat. The session ended with a mug of hot chocolate!

Y4 Forest School 15.3.24

Yoga

After our mental health week, Mrs Pearson had organised a day of yoga for the school to take part in. We enjoyed our time learning different breathing and calming techniques as well as some specific yoga stances and poses.

Y4 Yoga

Smile!

In science this week we researched about healthy teeth and gums using resources from Colgate. We each got a toothbrush and toothpaste to use as we were shocked that our toothbrush needs to be changed every 3 months! We then made posters to promote good oral hygiene and brushing techniques.

Y4 Colgate

Forest School 8th March 24

Another brilliant sessions today. Waffles were the snack of choice today, which we enjoyed toasting on the fire. We continued our cooking in the mud kitchen - noodles was the special of the day! The den was carpeted and the den changed. Log pets were made with Mrs T and then we could decorate and give them a name and personality. Potato watch was updated, tadpoles were attempted to be found and we used tyres to make our own drum kit! An an ant factory was built and some magic wands were created. Our best group task today was digging a moat around the island and this had the inclusion of a waterfall and a flag!

Y4 Forest School 8.3.24

World Book Day 2024

Thank you so much for all the support in creating some brilliant costumes to help our World Book Day celebrations. We took part in a quiz and created character profiles and pictures. We have a few snaps of our snazzy characters!

Y4 WBD Dress up 24

Science Week

For science week, we enjoyed some extra science sessions about time which was our theme for Science Week. As well as researching dinosaurs and developing our understanding of time, we also explored and investigated pendulums to see if we could get them to swing for an exact amount of swings in an exact amount of time! We had lots of fun trying to achieve this!

Y4 Sci Week 24

Art - Still Life - Shape, Shadow & Form

Could we create a still life of a piece of fruit in just 3 moves? Yes! We studied the fruit from Mrs KP's fruit bowl and considered the outline, spending time looking at the shape. We painted this using the wrong end of a paintbrush to mimic the style of a quill, before moving on to looking at the shadow the fruit created on the table. Then, with a larger paintbrush, we painted the shadow. Finally we diluted the paint to make a 'wash' and considered the form of the shape. This was then created in 1 stroke of the brush, before drying off some of the excess moisture. We really impressed Mrs KP and Mrs S with our pieces.

Y4 Art - Outline, shadow and form

English - Gulliver

We were given the challenge to communicate Gulliver's story to a Lilliputian who cannot speak the language. It was tricky in parts but we managed to recall the story using non-verbal forms of communication.

Y4 Non verbal communication

Forest School 23rd Feb 24

It was a lovely afternoon in forest school - chilly but bright! It was s'mores day!!!! Delicious. We enjoyed playing, building, singing, splashing, making and cooking in the mud kitchen (pancakes today). We also built a home for the hedgehogs if they need it and made some mud homes for the worms too! Mrs T taught some of us how to build and make fire - we were bright sparks at tbis!

Y4 Forest School 23.2.24

Gulliver's Travels

We have started our new unit of work and, after making some inferences about who our story could be about, we began reading Gulliver's Travels. Our aim for this lesson was to read with expression, clarity and volume! We had to impress Mrs KP and Mrs S.

Y4 Reading Aloud

Forest School 9th Feb 24

It was a very damp afternoon but that meant one thing... MUD! The mud kitchen was very busy preparing delicious cakes and pasta dishes. Puddle jumping was especially good today!

We enjoyed pancakes made on the camp fire, making tools, building dens, making planters and generally having a good time!

Y4 Forest School 9.2.24

Children's Mental Health Week 2024

The theme for this year was 'My Voice Matters'.

We created a spiral of things that are important to us to share with others. We wanted you to know what was important, even if you had different ideas - all our opinions were valid and real. It was also a time for acknowledging our proud moments, whether at school, at home or group we may be a part of, as well as those people who are important to us each and every day. We managed some meditation and created our own Zentangle artworks.

Y4 Children's Mental Health Week 2024

History - Village Life

This week we were learning about how Anglo-Saxons lived and how their villages were set up. After researching this, we then worked in groups to create a labelled village layout.

Y4 - History Anglo-Saxon Villages

Safer Internet Day 2024

Tuesday 6th February was Safer Internet Day and we spent the time looking at how we are persuaded to stay on line for longer by the different tactics used. We linked the icon to the definition before considering how it persuades us to stay online for longer. We also considered how much tech has changed over the years and whether posts that could be made would have a positive or negative effect on us.

Y4 Safer Internet Day 24

Forest School 2nd Feb 24

Our afternoon today started with a story in the fire circle to celebrate National Storytelling Week. We then enjoyed waffles, wood-splitting, den building, game play, muddy puddle jumping, mud kitchen delights to eat and we investigated the pond for signs of life too. Some creative artworks were made, mud painting designed on the side of the shed and Isaac helped Grandad David to build a new planter for Mr H.

Potato Watch - we have spotted it sprouting!

Y4 Forest School 2.2.24

Computing

Working with Mrs Postlethwaite in computing we have been learning how to create shapes through a repeating pattern using the Logo program. Here are a couple of examples:

Y4 Computing Logo

Persuasive Advert - JML Flexi Torch

The advert that we all loved was the JML Flexi-Torch one and we all wanted to have one as it was very persuasive! Well, we were very impressed to learn that Blake had one! It is as good as they said it was - thank you for bringing it in.

Y4 Flexi-torch

Forest School 26th Jan 24

This was a windy one! As the winds were on fine form, we could not have the fire this week so we enjoyed raw s'mores instead, which were just as delicious. Mrs T introduced us to Biddy's Mallet as we learnt how to split wood. These can then be turned into birds by the way they split. We are hoping to do some more next week. Mrs KP found out that she was quite good with the mallet as she managed to split the wood in one go! There was also time to make kites, develop the den, create obstacle courses and lots of mud fun! Hot orange to finish with too.

Y4 Forest School 26.1.24

A shout out for sprouts!

As part of our English unit on persuasive adverts, we had to create an advert to persuade Mrs KP to eat sprouts... a very difficult task indeed! Some of us played to her favourite things like penguins and maltesers and some we selling it as a super food. In the end, the winners were the ones with the tagline "Eat them to defeat them!"

Y4 A Shout Out to Sprouts!

Elmer

On Wednesday, we took some time for the Elmer project that we are part of and that supports Brian House. We made our mark in our section of the design and then had time to create our own design. We are hoping to raise a lot of money during the next few months for Brian House.

Y4 Elmer painting

Forest School 19th Jan 24

Today was all about PIZZA WRAPS! We enjoyed making them, cooking them and eating them too! We also had time to practise our spark making, den building, obstacle course making, playing in the mud and having lots of fun. We also found nature's artwork in the ice from the pond.

Y4 Forest School 19.1.24

PE with Gaz

We will be alternating PE lessons so some weeks we will have Gaz from BFC. This week we developed our throwing and catching - we will be awesome jugglers in no time!

Y4 PE with Gaz

Forest School Jan 2024

It was so good to be back at Forest School with Mrs T and Grandad. We started our session with pancakes by the fire and then we had a great time building dens, creating delicious 'food' in the mud kitchen, puddle jumping, fire making, making bird feeders, pond dipping, wood carving, potato finding, worm finding and chilling in the January sun! We ended the session with hot chocolate and cannot wait until next week.

Y4 Forest School 12.01.24

Elf Run 2023

Good fun was had by all and we were able to raise lots of money for Brian House - thank you for your generosity.

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DT Purses

We hope you liked your Christmas presents. We worked really hard on creating them just for you!

Y4 DT purses

Advent Promises

We have written our Advent Promises and placed them on the Christmas Tree in the hall. Please ask us to tell you what our promise is and help us to keep it.

Y4 Advent Promises

DT - Sewing

This week we have been learning different stiches - backstitch and overstitch ready for our purse sewing. We were brilliant at helping each other when some of us struggled and realised that, when it comes to sewing, practice makes perfect! Have a look through the pictures for our amazing 'concentration faces'...

Y4 Sewing Skills

Maths - Multiplying 3 numbers together

Our final lesson on multiplication today we looked for other ways to multiply 3 numbers together. We had to show and prove the calculation by making arrays. For example 8x4 = 4x2x5 so we could create arrays of 2x5 and repeat this 4 times and make the connections!

Y4 Multiplying 3 numbers

Macavity - Zones of Relevance

After analysing the poem Macavity by T.S. Elliot, we then decided where words should be placed on the zones of relevance. The characteristics we felt were the most relevant were green. We had to justify our answers, giving evidence from the poem. We then compared our group answers and decided on the most popular placements of the words! (We voted using the Numicon colours!)

Y4 Macavity - Zones of Relevance

Times Tables

In maths, we have been working on multiplication and division, concentrating on our times tables. This week we spent time creating them, looking for patterns within them and finding connections. Every little helps when it comes to our Times Tables Check next June!

Y4 Maths x11 x12

HSBC - Money Sense

Denise from HSBC came in on Wednesday to teach us all about different ways to pay and how we can be sensible with our money and make wise choices. She even brought in some of the new 50p with King Charles on them. Ask us to tell you about the differences between those and the ones with Queen Elizabeth on.

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Remembrance 2023

Today we remembered those who fought and died in many wars and conflicts as part of Remembrance Day. We took part in the whole school assembly, presenting our chosen prayer and poppy display. We then created a class poppy garland which we then placed in our Prayer Garden. We took the time to say a prayer too.

Y4 Remembrance 2023

Science - If I can pour it, is it a liquid?

Mrs KP posed the question "If I can pour sand, does that make it a liquid?"

We then spent time thinking of the properties of solids and liquids from what we know. This allowed us to reason our repsonses and thoughts when presented with a array of materials to sort into solids and liquids. Some of us even pretended to be particles inside solids and liquids!

Y4 Science - States of Matter

'King Tut' Musuem

Thanks to our amazing homwork projects, we were able to create a museum with our work. Then we spent time sharing our writing and art pieces before wandering around our gallery. We really impressed Mrs KP and Mrs Walsh with our work.

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Work this half term

Here are a couple of pictures of the displays in Y4 from this half term. We have been looking at Stewardship and Creation in RE which prompted us to create guides on how to take care of the planet that we are caring for. In English, we have been performing playscripts and having a great time - indeed some of us are definitely budding actors!

Y4 displays

Art - Charcoal Scenes

After exploring how we can use charcoal, we then set a scene using small world resources (borrowed from reception - thank you!) and began sketching the scene from our viewpoint.

Y4 Art - Charcoal scenes

Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

This afternoon we spent time learning about the Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt. We then had to build our own using different materials. Here our the results:

Y4 Pyramid building 23

Gymnastics

This week we were moving like different animals and creating a sequence of 2 movements linked by a balance.

Y4 Gymnastics Sep 23

Order! Order!

During one of our lessons on place value, we each chose a 4-digit number which we compared with our partner. We then extended this to order the numbers on our table. Finally, we challenged ourselves to order the whole of the class!!!

Y4 Ordering numbers

Back with a fanfare!

First week back now completed! We have spent time getting up to speed with new initiatives and routines. We have started our first units of work in RE, English, Maths and Science as well as having our first Wider Opps session with Mrs Doyle. We spent time learning all about the cornet and began attempting to play the note 'C'. Lots of effort and the start of a good sound from Y4!

Y4 Cornet Lesson 1 (9/23)

Year 4 2022-2023

Bring Yer Wellies 2023

Melissa and Nigel welcomed us at Bring Yer Wellies today and we were in for a treat! We were able to build sandcastles on their indoor beach, have a conservation talk, take a 'smelly walk' through the garden (spearmint, lemon, rosemary, oregano, lavendar) and plant our very own spearmint and peppermint plants which we must remember to water - just enough! All of this before our lunch! In the afternoon we had a den building competition, games and orienteering! Such a great place to visit and such lovely hosts.

Y4 Bring Yer Wellies 2023

Forest School Treat

Friday afternoon was a brilliant time and the spots of rain did not spoil our exploration and pizza making in Forest School. Thank you Mrs Topping and Grandad for arranging this special treat for us and coming in on your day off! We really enjoyed ourselves.

Y4 Forest school treat

Clay Creatures

In art we have designed and created our own mythical creature that would be very much at home in either The Firework-Maker's Daughter or The Land of Roar!

Y4 Clay Creatures

Viking Homework Project

On Thursday, we imagined ourselves into a Viking Museum full of relics, artefacts and information. There were helmets, swords, shield, broaches, belt buckles, money, games and amulets a plenty! We galloped round the gallery and then gave talks as experts. Absolutely incredible work and everyone was impressed. Well done to all.

Y4 Viking Homework

Open Air Mass

We have had a lovely morning with Y4 from our Catholic Trust at St Mary's with a joint mass. We presented our artwork and took part in the mass. It was a joyful occasion and we each received a prayer card to remember the event.

Y4 Open Air Mass 15.6.23

Cornets

In preparation for the Music Evening next week, we had a joint rehearsal of the pieces we are going to perform and some of the class are going to be brave enough to play in groups or as a solo.

Y4 Cornets 14.6.23

Sponsored Sports Event

Today we were inspired by Stuart Robinson to keep active and healthy as we completed our sponsored work!

Y4 Sponsored event

Sports Day

Sunshine a plenty for our sports day this year. We enjoyed all our team activities - especially the vortex throw! After that, we sprinted for the 100m and paced ourselves for a long distance race too. Great participation and sportspersonship!

Y4 Sports Day 2023

Football Charter

Lots of the class enjoy football but not all of us play in teams outside of school so we decided to create a class football charter of the agreed rules for playing so that it is fair for all and we can enjoy our time on our teams. The rules were discussed and voted on by the children and then they all signed the charter. Team Y4 working togther!

Y4 Football Charter

Coronation Day

What a fun-filled day! Thankfully the weather allowed us to enjoy all that had been planned. During the morning we could take part in lots of different activities outside: cricket, disco, crafts, obstacle course, croquet, climbing frame and playing games with our friends. Once back inside, we made crowns and placemats ready for lunch! With an extended lunch time, it wasn't long before we were joined by our families and we sang 'Our King' in honour of our special guests King Charles III and Queen Camilla!

Y4 Coronation Day

Mini-Olympics

Today we ventured to St Mary's for the Mini Olympics event. The 3 events we took part in were dancing, handball and athletics. Mrs KP was very proud of our sportsmanship, our fair play, our successes and how well we supported each other. (Sorry I have only pictures from my group)

Y4 Mini Olympics

Maths

We have been working so hard in maths and have been superstars when we have been looking at decimals. Today we consolidated how to divide a 2-digit number by 10 and proved it too using concrete resources!

Y4 Maths Div by 10

St Bernadette's Feast Day

After learning about the life of St Bernadette and lessons we can learn from her, we celebrated with ice-cream and buddied up with Y1 to enjoy it! We had a really lovely time.

Y4 St B Feast Day

PE - Athletics

Over the last couple of sessions in PE we have been practising our athletics skills:

long jump
shot put
discus
sprinting
triple jump
relays

Y4 PE Athletics

Holy Week

On Tuesday we performed our assembly in church. In it, we recreated The Last Supper. All the school watched and we had some lovely feedback. It was also great to see that so many family and friends were able to come along and watch.

Following on from this, we spent time in the afternoon talking about the Stations of the Cross and discussing the work that year groups had created alongside the stations. We were able to ask questions and express our thoughts and ideas.

Y4 Stations of cross and Assembly

World Book Day(s) - March 2023

Lots of fun has been had over the last couple of days, celebrating World Book Day. Here are some of our highlights:

Footy and Booky Quiz

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We kicked off the fun with an online quiz featuring two rounds of questions (one football-themed, one reading-themed), pitched by footballing heroes and writers. Hosted by top sports presenter Kelly Somers with Football School authors Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton. We scored well!

Y4 Footy and Booky

Drawing Dave Pigeon

The National Literacy Trust also presented the brilliant author/illustrator duo Swapna Haddow and Sheena Dempsey for this jam-packed event as they jump into the world of Dave Pigeon: Bookshop Mayhem. We got to hear all about where they get their ideas, their top tips for creating your own stories, and then we had the chance to become illustrators with a Dave Pigeon draw-along.

Y4 Dave Pigeon drawing

Dressing Up

Such a collection of amazing characters took over our classroom today - it was a tricky register to take! We enjoyed parading around for parents and families.

Y4 WBD dress up

Hot-Seating

So many of us knew our books so well that we were on fire in the hot-seating activities. After competing in the classroom competition, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter and Ben from Gangsta Granny took part in the KS2 character competition. Our winner was the amazing Lucy as Luna! Well done to everyone for being brave enough to get fully involved.

Y4 WBD hot-seating

Lenten Prayers

Following on from our Ash Wednesday Mass with Father David, we spent time discussing Lent. We talked about things that we may want to give up - that would be difficult for us to give up! We then decided on ways in which we could give up more of ourselves for others or new things that we could choose to take up.

Y4 Lenten prayers

Homework Projects - Make your own kind of music!

On Thursday, we shared our homework projects about the music that we love to listen to and our favourite musicians and bands. Some of us even made some working instruments. We then shared them with the class if we wanted to before having a look at each other's projects. We were even treated to an impromptu concert of cornets and percussion! Well done to everyone who completed this.

Y4 Music Project Homework

DT - Working Mechanisms

After all our hard work, we have now finished our unit on levers and linkages. Our end project was to create a poster that would be about either recycling, reading more or alternatives to playing football at school. Our idea must include a working mechanism of our choice. We had some really brilliant examples and Mrs H has displayed them in the corridor outside our classroom.

Y4 DT mechanisms

Safer Internet Day

On Tuesday 7th February, we completed work for Safer Internet Day. This year we focused on what we wanted to say about online safety and how important it is to speak to someone if we are not happy with something we see online. We wrote and drew about our ideas.

Y4 Safer Internet Day

Class Mass - Community

These pictures are from our rehearsal for our class mass on community. Mrs KP was incredibly proud of how reverent we were and how much we contributed during our mass on Tuesday morning. Thank you to Father David, Bernard, Mr Manfredi and all of you who were able to attend and even stay for a cup of tea afterwards.

Y4 Class Mass Feb 23

Gymnastics Lessons

Continuing our gymastics sessions, we looked at creating mirrored sequences that included balances, jumps and rolls. Great partnership work.

Y4 Gymnastics Lessons (2023)

History

Our challenge today was to use a set of labels plus what we had found out about Anglo-Saxon villages, to draw a plan/picture of what we thought they would look like. We impressed Mrs KP not only with our drawing skills but also how fantastically well we worked in our groups to produce the outcome! We then spent time looking at each others pieces to compare.

Y4 Anglo Saxon villages

English - Discussion Texts

Today we finished our draft discussion piece of writing, using our debate work to help form opinions. They have worked really hard on these and tomorrow is the time to publish their work!

Y4 Discussion texts

Do you want to build a snowman?

We enjoyed our play time today!!!! Snow!!!! We loved making snow angels, building snowmen, writing and drawing in it, making snowballs to try and score in the basketball hoop and simply being Y4 children playing with our friends in the snow!

Y4 Snow Play

Maths

We have been looking at informal methods for multiplication today. We investigaed using base 10, place value counters, number lines and part-whole models. Sometimes it is harder to show our understanding rather than simply knowing an answer!

Y4 Maths informal mult

Fit2Go Quiz

Ten of our class represented Y4 at the Fit2Go quiz at Blackpool Football Club. They worked really hard and did us proud. We just missed out on a podium place, finishing 4th. Well done quizzers!

Y4 Fit2Go Quiz Jan 23

Gymnastics Lesson 2

Today we learned two new balances, the dish and the arch! We helped each other to perfect them and so now we will be able to add them into future sequences!

Y4 Gymnastics Lesson 2 (2023)

English - Debate

We have been taking sides in the argument over whether we should be allowed to feed animals in National Parks. We have formed groups 'for' and 'against' and then we had a debate in class. We had to then decide who made the most convincing arguments. It was tricky because we all impressed with our debating skills!

Y4 Debate

Gymnastics Lesson 1

We have started gymnastics in PE. This week we were looking at ways to travel and balance. Mrs KP was taught how to travel like a spider (& she is grateful there are no pictures of her trying!) and we also travelled as bears, crabs, rabbits, frogs and caterpillars. We practised balancing on one leg and both a front and back support balance. We then created a sequence which started and ended with the correct gymnastics position, then had a 1-foot balance, travel, front/back support balance, a different travel and then a finally front/back support balance. We all worked very hard.

Y4 Gymnastics Lesson 1 (2023)

DT - Sewing Project

*SPOLIER ALERT*

Don't look at the pictures if you helped fill in the DT questionnaires or your gift will be ruined

We have shown great resilience during this project when it came to learning to sew to create our purses. Using our questionnaires we custom made our purses, making a prototype before learning some stitches. Then we created our final projects - thanks to Mrs H and Mrs B in particular for helping with our buttons!

Y4 DT sewing

Elf Run 2022

We enjoyed the Elf Run this morning, raising money for Brian House. We had to overcome obstacles which included ladder runs, slalom course, a limbo and some pesky Y6 pupils!!!

Y4 Elf Run 2022

Christmas Cards

We linked our poetry unit on cinquains with Christmas to make our cards. We followed the rules of:

Line 1 - 1 Noun (what the cinquain is about)

Line 2 - 2 Adjectives to describe the noun

Line 3 - 3 Verbs ending in -ing

Line 4 - A 4-word phrase to descibe the noun

Line 5 - 1 word synonym (or word close to) the noun.

Y4 Christmas Cards

Forest School 16.12.22

Our final forest school session for Y4 today and we used it as a learning experience around ice, we spent time talking about the dangers and how to stay safe as well how beautiful it can be. We ate bagels with butter and jam in our fire circle, created decorations using acorns, built dens and enjoyed selling our ice sculptures. We finished off with a hot drink and talk about our favourite activities and we are sad that it was our last session.

Y4 Forest School 16.12.22

Forest School 5.12.22

On the menu today - toasted marshmallows! We then created Christmas decorations using wood, hammered in nails and woven wool. Great teamwork when den building today too. Finished off with some hot chocolate - just what we needed.

Y4 Forest School 5.12.22

Forest School 14.11.22

On the menu today were s'mores! Delicious! We were then sawing, building, imaginitively playing and taking risks in a safe space.

Y4 Forest School 28.11.22

PE Session

We were working in our house teams today and designing obstacle courses. We had to listen to each other and take on other ideas and then create courses that included a balance, agility and skill. Here are the team leaders demonstrating how they work.

Y4 PE Obstacle Courses

Forest School 14.11.22

On the menu today were pancakes with lemon and sugar! Expertly made, cooked and eaten by Y4. We were then building, jumping, caterpillar making and having lots of fun!

Y4 Forest School 14.11.22

Remembrance Day 2022 - Lest We Forget

Incredibly proud of how respectful Y4 were in our Remembrance Service. We then went to place our poppy crosses in the prayer garden.

Y4 Remembrance 2022

Orienteering in PE

Great fun in PE this afterrnoon searching for letters using our map reading skills and working in teams. Once we had collected all our letters, we had to rearrange to letters to form a 6 letter animal.

Y4 Orienteering in PE

Maths - Area

Lots of practical work this morning making rectilinear shapes with the same area using post-it notes! Paired work and maths talk!!

Y4 Area work

First Forest School Session

Oh my! We had a muddy Monday in forest school. Mrs Topping allowed us to toast marshmallows over the firepit, Grandad David encouraged our play and we had brilliant fun making autumnal wreaths. Den duilding a plenty as well as mud kitchen recipes and lots of creative play. We are going to enjoy our sessions.

Y4 Forest School 7.11.22

History - King Tutankhamun Homework Projects

We have been absolutely blown away by the amazing Egyptian projects that have been completed this half term. We enjoyed sharing our work in class today and looking at all the other projects that have been written and made. Here are some pictures from our afternoon! Thank you for all the support from home with these projects.

Y4 History Homework Projects

History -Mummifying Mrs H

Today Mrs KP mummified Mrs Huggard! It was fun learning all about the removal of the brain, the organs that were placed into Canopic jars and how they were wrapped in linen before being placed into their tombs. They then had to have their heart weighed against an ostrich fund to see if they were allowed to enter into the Afterlife. (No Mrs Huaggards were harmed in the making of this post)

Y4 Mummification

Final Fit2Go Session

So it was our last Fit2Go session with Elise and Rosie from BFC. We played dodgeball and then we were learning how the read the labels on our food to make healthy choices. Rosie also presented Thomas and Bella with the star of the class certificates and a Marcus Rashford book for their contributions in the sessions.

Y4 Fit2Go winners

Cornets

We have been making lots of progress with our cornets and are making some really good sounds!

Y4 Cornet 28.9.22

Fit2Go

Crikey - we were worked hard today, completing circuits and then learning how to take our pulse. We were learning about the effects on the body of exercise.

Y4 Fit2Go (28.9.22)

Art - Colour Theory

Our afternoon of art allowed us to look at primary colours and how to mix those to create secondary colours. After this, we extended it to tertiary colours by exploring what happens if more of one primary colour is added into a secondary colour. Finally we developed our shading techniques using white to lighten a colour.

Y4 Colour Theory

History - Ancient Egyptians

We have written lots of questions about what we want to learn about the Ancient Egyptians. This week we focused on pyramids. We now know lots of interesting facts which we can share with you and then we had a try at building our own!

Y4 building pyraminds

Maths - Place Value

We have started our Y4 maths journey consolidating and extending our understanding of place value. This week we have extended our work into thousands and have been representing and partitioning numbers up to 10,000. We have done this using resources like base 10, drawing place value grids and even looking at flexible partitioning too!

Y4 representing numbers to 10,000

RE - Freeze Frames

We are looking at family trees and in partcular the family tree of Jesus. We have heard about Abraham and his son Isaac. We listened to the story of Isaac and Rebecca, and their sons Esau and Jacob. We discussed the relationship within the family and how God bestowed his favour onto Jacob. As groups, we created freeze frames to show the story.

Y4 Story of Isaac & Rebecca

Egyptian Self Portraits

After a busy first week, we have spent time creating our own Ancient Egyptian self portraits. We worked hard creating elaborate headdresses and are looking forward to displaying them.

Y4 Egyptian Portraits

Cornet Day 1!

What a start to Y4. We have had our first cornet lesson with Mrs Doyle today and we were learning all about our instrument and then we tried to get a note out of it! We pretty much all managed it and we were making noises like 'buzzing bees'.

Y4 Cornet day 1

Year 4 2021-2022

Bring Yer Wellies!

What an amazing day we have had! We travelled to near to Houghton Tower to Bring Yer Wellies where we had a brilliant day with Melissa and Nigel. We played on their indoor beach, listened to a talk on how important plants are and the role we can play to help. After going on a 'smelly walk', we potted oregano and spearmint plants (which we brought home) and then we were allowed lunch! In the afternoon, we recycled our rubbish, did some pond dipping and indented creatures from leeches to froglets! Mrs KP even managed to catch a newt in her net! Then we built dens, had a race, and completed a treasure hunt, making everyone proud of how well we worked in teams. Our final actvity was an assault course which included jumping and ribbiting like a frog and completing the water walk! A jam-packed day so please ask us all about it!

Y4 Bring Yer Wellies 2022

Sports Day 2022

Warning! There are a lot of photos - Mrs Huggard took her role of official photographer very seriously. I feel incredibly proud of the children in how they behaved and performed during all the Sports Day events. My event was totalling up the scores which was made harder by how brilliant the class were! Well done to everyone and thank you to family and friends for coming to support and cheer on the children.

Y4 Sports Day 2022

Science Talk - Electricity

We were very lucky today to go to Blackpool Sixth Form to be part of the Ogden Trust partnership event. We watched a really exciting live science show presented by BBC's Marty Jopson. It was absolutely inspiring and there were plenty of electrifying moments!

Y4 Science Talk 4.7.22

Commonwealth Baton

We helped to pass on the Commonwealth Baton as it travels across Blackpool today!

Y4 baton pass

Class Mass - New Life and Serving

Today was our class mass and we focused on New Life and Serving, relating it to our work on Pentecost and the Holy Spirit. We sang hymns and songs, gave readings and also shared some of our work from class. It was so lovely to be able to share it with our families too. Mrs KP was very proud of us especially at how respectful we were throughout.

Y4 Mass June 22 - New Life

Jubilee Celebrations!

What an amazing day we have had celebrating the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. We spent time this morning learning about Queen Elizabeth II, singing the Platinum Jubilee song 'Our Queen', creating our own crowns & placemats for the special lunch, and collaborating together to write our own prayer for her too.

Then we were able to join together as a school and have a celebratory lunch outside. Our Jubilee Lunch Boxes were yummy, the playlist of songs from the last 70yrs was brilliant and then we were able to play lots of different games and spend time outside with our friends.

As an extra treat, we had yummy ice-cream from Manfredi and a very special visitor made an appearance too. Mrs. Satterthwaite and school bought us each a keepsake medal which were able to take home to remember this very unique and special occasion.

Year 4 Jubilee

Art - Clay sculptures

We linked our 3D Art unit to our English work on The Firework-Maker's Daughter, by designing and sculpting a mythical creature that could feature in the story. We were learning new techniques for sculpting clay: rolling a ball, pulling & pinching with fingers, rolling a snake, creating holes & hollows, smoothing clay with fingers, adding features, creating textures with tools and attaching clay pieces together. We enjoyed creating our creatures - see what you think...

Year 4 - Art: Clay sculptures

Maths - Money!

We have used our decimal work when looking at the topic of money! We have been converting between £ and p as well and solving money problems. If you need any change, just ask!

Year 4 Maths Money

Geography - Countries of Europe

Our learning journal homework piece for this half term linked with our Geography topic - Europe. We each had to chose a country and create a non-chronological report, sharing the facts we had researched, drawing flags and landmarks. We then created a gallery of them in the classroom for us to wander through and read. Some of us were happy to give a mini-presentation to the whole class too.

Some great work Y4 - well done.

Y4 Geography Learning Journal

Science - Investigating a habitat

As part of our science topic on Living Things and their Habitats, we investigated the Forest School area in terms of a habitat for wildlife. We were very careful not to disturb the creatures and place them back where we found them. Woodlice, worms, spiders, ants and centipedes were the most popular but not one ladybird!!

Y4 Sci Habitats (May 22)

Drama - Freeze frames to tell a story

Today we used freeze frames to re-enact the extract from The Firework-Maker's Daughter. We then had to decide in our groups how Lila would escape and create a freeze frame for it. The rest of the class had to guess our predictions. We cam up with some brilliant ideas and we will have to wait to see how Phillip Pullman writes her escape in our next lesson! You can ask us about our predictions from our photos.

Y4 Drama - 6.5.22

Stained Glass Window & Prayer Area

We have created a stained glass window to display our Gospel Values within the class. We aim to live out these values every day: forgiveness, peace, love, happiness, respect, kindness & friendship.

We have also adapted our prayer area as we are in Eastertide.

Y4 Prayer Area & Stained Glass

Mini-Olympics May 2022

We were invited to St Mary's to work with their staff and pupils and take part in a Mini-Olympics! We were split into 3 groups and we each had a turn at dance, handball and athletics. We really enjoyed the afternoon and we want to play handball now in the MUGA at playtime and we were awesome at teamwork in both handball and athletics. One of the class even said that they didn't know they enjoyed dance until today. Lots of individual wins and overall, we came second!! Silver medals for all.

Y4 Mini-Olympics May 2022

St Bernadette's Day 2022

Our morning was spent learning about the life of St Bernadette and then we wrote about the lessons that we can learn from her.

In the afternoon, we enjoyed our special treat of ice-cream (thank you!). It was lovely to be able to sit outside with the school.

Y4 St Bernadette's Day 2022

RE reflections

After our prayer and liturgy time this morning, we looked again at our prayer area and the Lenten Promises we made. As it was the end of our unit on Self Discipline and giving, we have spent time looking at the events of Holy Week. Today we finished off by discussing the events of Easter Sunday. We had lots of questions about it and we wanted to talk about our understanding. We created an image that reflected Easter Sunday, considering the symbols, colours and words that we chose very carefully. From these images we created Easter cards to take home.

Year 4 Easter Reflections

Last Forest School

We have had our last session with Mrs. Topping. As a celebration we had hot chocolate and then toasted marshmallows over the fire pit and made our own s'mores (which were delicious) We have loved exploring, role-playing, building, making, discovering, digging, planting and creating!

Year 4 Last Forest School

Stations of the Cross

We have enjoyed the discussions and reflections around the Stations of the Cross. We thought carefully about what we wanted to include on our stations: Station 1 - Jesus is condemned to death and Station 10 - Jesus is stripped of his garments. When we visited the Church, we were able to comment on the other stations that the other year groups had done and add our own thoughts to their pieces.

Year 4 Stations of the Cross

Science - Digestion

To finish off our unit on teeth and digestion we looked in more detail at what happens to our food when we eat. We chose different items to represent different parts of our body and 'enjoyed' the process!

Year 4 Science (Digestive System)

Our Spring Class Mass

Our class mass took place on Tuesday 8th March and was based around theme of community. We shared our work from class and our own thoughts and ideas. We made Mrs KP very proud.

Y4 Mass Spring 2022

Forest School

We have enjoyed den building, pancake making (and eating), ‘cooking’ in the mud kitchen and general gardening.

Elf Run

Today, we took part in the Elf Run to raise money for Brian House. We had a wonderful time! Thank you to the Year 6 'elves' for adding an extra layer of fun.

Remembrance Day

On Remembrance Day, we gathered together as a school to remember those who have fought, died and were injured in the line of duty. We also thought about those who are serving now and their families. We reused plastic bottles to make our own poppies which we ‘planted’ in our school’s prayer garden.

Class Mass

Today, we celebrated our first class mass of the year. We thought about how we can share God's love with others. Worship, prayer and helping people are all ways we can make a positive difference.

Forest School

We are really enjoying our Forest School sessions as we are learning new skills each week and helping to develop and look after our school environment.

Year 4 2020-2021

Maths

Year 4 regularly login to Times Table Rockstars and play Hit the Button (Maths Frame) in order to help us learn the key multiplication and division facts up to 12 x 12. We also test ourselves using the Maths Frame Multiplication Tables Check online test. We can independently use the outcomes of the assessment to plan our next steps in learning.

Learning Journals

Here are some of our homework pieces from our Learning Journals. Mrs A sets us a question and we conduct research into the topic. We present our findings in a range of interesting ways.

UEFA Euro 2021

In light of the Euro 2021 final held at Wembley Stadium, we decided to do some celebratory football related tasks today which included mindfulness colouring plus word search and anagram activities. We will also be working with Blackpool Football Club Community Trust on their Fit2Go programme this afternoon. What a day of fun sport related activities we will be completing! We also enjoyed a couple of special treats...a non-uniform day and an ice lolly!

Bring Yer Wellies

On Friday 9th July, Year 4 went to Bring Yer Wellies in Hoghton near Preston. It is an outdoor learning centre where children learn by engaging with nature. We enjoyed learning about how to take care of plants and planting herbs which we brought home to look after. Then, we did some pond dipping and identified the animals that we had caught. After lunch, we launched cork boats for a series of races which was great fun! Melissa also showed us her wormery which recycles fresh food waste into compost and fertiliser. We had a wonderful time, learnt many new things and behaved well.

Afterwards, we wrote recounts about our wonderful visit to Bring Yer Wellies. We purple polished them in order to edit and improve our work.

Here is an example:

3D modeling with clay

Year 4 researched a range of sculptures including the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park, USA, and The Angle of the North in Gateshead, England. We learnt about their designers/sculptors and the materials they were made from. We used modeling plasticine to practise the skills we would need. We then designed and made our own sculptures from clay linked to the theme of mythical creatures. We used a range of techniques including rolling, pinching, pulling, smoothing and adding detail using a range of methods. Here are some of our creations:

Holy Week

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Please click on the link to view our Holy Week video.

Stations of the Cross

Year 4 have been to our church to look at the Stations of the Cross - both the ones Fr Peter has been explaining to us and the ones we have worked together as a school to create. The children behaved respectfully and were able to respond thoughtfully and in detail to all of the questions asked, showing that they had really listened to each of Father Peter's videos. The children felt that the Stations of the Cross helped them to understand what happened to Jesus on his journey.

Elf Run

Today we took part in our annual Elf Run to raise money for Brian House. There were some elves causing trouble and obstacles we had to get around but we all had lots of fun.

Year 4 Textiles

User: a person of our choice from home

Purpose: a Christmas gift

Product: a money container

We began the unit by examining existing money containers in order to analyse and understand how products are made. We created our design criteria. Next, we learnt how to thread a needle, tie a knot, sew the back stitch or over stitch and make a button loop for a button. We recorded our plans by drawing using annotated sketches and preparing pattern pieces as templates for our designs. At each stage of the making process, we had to select from our bank of techniques. During our evaluations, we identified the strengths and weaknesses of our design ideas in relation to the purpose and our user. We carefully wrapped our finished product in the beautiful wrapping paper made by Year 5 – just in time for Christmas.

P.E.

This term, we have been playing invasion games. We have been applying our throwing, catching, attacking and defending skills within small-sided team games. These have also given us the opportunity to work on our teamwork skills.

Advent

Instead of giving Christmas cards to each other, this year we are writing our Christmas wishes on a dove and placing them on the school Christmas tree for everyone to read.

Class Mass

Today, we celebrated our class mass in the hall. We focused on Christ the King and the importance of helping others. We signed rather than sang all of the hymns.

PSHE

At the start of the year, we read and discussed a wonderful book called ‘In my heart’ by Jo Witek. It is a celebration of all of our different feelings in words, pictures and colours. This is the display we have created based on the book and we use it to help us to talk about how we are feeling about different things that happen.

Science

During our electricity topic, we have been constructing simple series circuits. We have learnt how to find faults in them by methodically testing connections and components. We can recognise some common conductors and insulators and know that a switch opens and closes a circuit. We have really enjoyed this topic!

Computing

We are currently working on Digital Literacy learning objectives and many of these focus using technology respectfully, responsibly and safely. We used the ‘How secure is my password’ website to test our password ideas. We then drew up a list of ‘top tips’ for secure passwords. They must

Have at least eight characters.
Contain a mixture of letters, symbols and numbers.
Use upper and lower-case letters.
Be changed regularly.
Be kept private.

Esther Mahlangu

We have been learning about the life and work of Esther Mahlangu. She is an artist who uses bold colours and geometric patterns in her unique and colourful paintings.

Wednesday 11^th November: Remembrance Day

Today, we remembered all of the people who have fought and died in wars and conflicts across the world. We made poppies to ‘plant’ in our prayer garden, said prayers and reflected during our two minute silence. We will remember them.

Year 4 2019-2020

Year 4 - Art: Kente

Year 4 have just begun a new art topic. We have investigated Kente cloth from Ghana and considered the use of bold, bright colours and geometric patterns. We have learned to weave paper and are so pleased with the results. We will now think about how to apply what we have learned to making our own wall hanging out of material. What this space for our results!

Year 4 - Art - Kente

Year 4- Art & DT - Light Up Signs

We investigated a range of light up signs and explored their purposes. We applied our knowledge of circuits from our science lessons to create our own light up signs for different areas in school – from the entrance to prayer areas and to the library.

Year 4 - Art & DT - Light Up Signs

Y4 - Spring 2020 World Book Day
What a wonderful array of different book characters Year 4 have come as!

Y4 - Spring 2020 World Book Day

Anglo-Saxon Timeline

We have many challenge areas within our classroom. These help us to build upon the learning taking place in lessons. At the moment, in our history area, we have an Anglo-Saxon timeline of key events and figures.

Reading Area

Year 4 have recently renovated our reading area. We have selected a wide range of interesting books which are linked to the curriculum topics we are currently studying. These are changed each half term so that we always have something new and relevant to read. We also some new, comfortable seating, a canopy and some questions to help focus our reading and discussions.

Vocabulary Jar

In Year 4, we are always trying to extend our vocabulary. When we encounter challenging new words, they are defined, used within the subject or topic and then placed in the vocabulary jar. We revisit them on a regular basis and are encourage to use them accurately within our written work.

D.T.

We have been investigating textiles in D.T.. Our user was a person of our choice from home. Our purpose and product revolved around making something to contain money safely as a Christmas present. We have all been very excited about this and have been keen to work through each step: investigating, learning new skills, planning, making a template, cutting out a pattern, making and evaluating. Now all we need to do is wrap them!

Advent

As we prepare for Christmas during the season of Advent, we have been writing Advent promises. These range from special intentions for our prayers to ways we can help others both at home and within our community. We are also collecting our spare change for CAFOD and aim to purchase a 'World Gift'.

Fit2Go Quiz

On Monday 4th November, nine children from Year 4 represented our class at the annual Fit2Go quiz. There were lots of activities to complete including a warm up dance, filling in missing words, a 'quick fire' quiz and sorting food into categories. We had to use the knowledge from the Fit2Go programme, delivered by BFC Community Trust, to answer the questions. We worked really well as a team and Mrs C said our behaviour was fantastic!

Y4 Fit2Go Quiz

Piet Mondrian

Year 4 have been researching the artist Piet Mondrian and producing work inspired by his use of lines and colours. We used the primary colours to mix secondary and tertiary colours. Our artwork is now on display in our classroom and many parents have been into look at our creativity during our 'Meet the Teacher' evenings!