Year 4 Timetable

Here's the Year 4 Timetable which we follow in class. It maybe helpful for your child in order to give a structure to the day. The home learning will roughly follow this structure as far as is possible but there will be some changes and I understand that we need flexibility. Thank you for your support in trying out Google Meet this morning.

Spaghetti and marshmallow fun!

What a lovely day with marshmallow and spaghetti construction challenges!

Mathematical challenges

As part of our STEM activities this week,  children had a range of Mathematics challenges to solve. Here they are getting their mathematical teeth into some challenges!

Google meet

Dear Class

If possible, please try to check my email to you at about 6pm this evening so we can practise going on Google Meet.

Thank you

Mrs Peacock

Sports Relief

Here are Year 4 doing their leg of rowing to Tokyo. Super effort!

Our very own STEM professionals

What an impressive array of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics professionals we had in school this week!





(Latter photo taken by Captain Pierre)

Rapping!

This week, the children have been finding out about what makes a rap poem. They have looked at a range of raps and identified the different features. We have also had lots of fun performing raps using percussion instruments to bring out the rhythm as well as using actions and props to bring out the meaning!

Here are some of the children performing their rap.

De- feet bullying day

Well done to Year 4 for their wacky foot wear combinations in support of the NSPCC. The class winner for the wackiest foot wear was Ryan. Well done Ryan!

A warm welcome to Year 4 to Louis. It's lovely to have you as a part of our class.

Happy half term

Just to wish you all a lovely half-term break.

The children had a fun day on Friday enjoying the chocolates which William had kindly brought in for Valentine's Day, as well as taking part in making their group's chocolate product as part of their IPC work.

Looking forward to seeing the children on 24 February.

Spin that wheel!

In English, the children enjoyed a competitive spin-the -wheel quiz to help them develop their use of causal connectives. Learning difficult grammar and word types can be such fun!

Debate: Should Year 4 have homework every night?!

As part of our work in English on using persuasive language techniques, the children  debated whether homework should be set every night! The challenge was to use persuasive language techniques (such as 'rule of 3', rhetorical questions and exaggeration) in their arguments. A particular well done to the children who had to argue in support of this motion!

Star of the week

Well done to Esther who is this week's Star of the Week for her attitude to learning and for giving of her best particularly in Mathematics and English.

A delicious feast to help our learning in English

This week, in English, we have been reading a portal story about a boy called Billy, who finds a door in a brick wall, enters in and finds himself in another world. Next week, the children will be writing their own portal story. One of the success criteria will be about using expanded noun phrases to add detail to their story. In order to support the children's writing of expanded noun phrases, we set up the feast that Billy saw in the great hall and used the food items to write expanded noun phrases.

Here are some examples of the children's writing:
Billy saw some finger-licking good popcorn chicken on top of his plate. (Ben)

The rainbow Skittles in the bowl were soon eaten. (Seb)

The tasty cream egg on the plate was about to be eaten by Ryan.(Charlie)

Billy saw a juicy, meaty fish next to lots of chips. (Luke)

The healthy orange juice in the bottle was soon drank. (Pierre)

The lovely, hard-working Year 4's!

This is Year 4!

Practising 'Show not tell' descriptions in English

In English today, we were practising describing how a character is feeling by 'showing' this rather than 'telling' it. The children acted out some different emotions and the rest of the class had to identify the body language that showed the emotion.

Here are some of the children's examples:
She stomped into the room with clenched fists. She bawled, 'How dare you say that!' She ground her teeth together and her face was bright red. (anger)
Esther

He slowly walked into the room with his hands covering his eyes. Tears were dripping down his face. He sat down in a corner by himself and wiped away his tears.
(sadness)
Eshel

She skipped into the classroom with a big smile on her face. Her eyes were open wide like sunlight. She walked up to Esther and gave her a hug. (happiness)
Ryan

He ate the cake without leaving any for the birthday boy. Then, he opened the presents of the birthday boy that he knew had chocolate in. He devoured it all in two seconds! (greed)
Pierre

Last week, the children in Years 3 and 4 had a very tasty trip as they launched their new IPC topic, Chocolate.  We travelled to York to visit York’s Chocolate Story museum. Here, the children learned more about the history behind York’s famous chocolatiers.  Then, they were taught how chocolate is made starting from the cocoa beans.  There were interactive displays to help explain the many processes of chocolate production and the children were shown how to correctly taste a piece of chocolate as a chocolate connoisseur. The museum tour finished with the children making their own chocolate lollies and watching a live demonstration of how filled chocolates are made. 
Around every corner there was more chocolate to sample so it is hardly surprising that some of the children deemed this to be ‘the best trip ever’!

Here are a few photos to show our children enjoying the trip.