Blog by Tag: Year 4

ADDvanced Solutions Community Network has released their Autumn 2 programme, offering support to parents on a wide variety of subjects eg. Organisational skills, Masking, Theory of Mind, Preparing for Christmas and more.  The courses are held in a variety of locations, at different times of the…

We finished our half term writing some of our own Halloween poetry. We had lots of fun creating group stanzas and thinking about rhyming couplets to complement our poems! We even got to perform our poem as a class. 
 

We took part in a zoom masterclass yesterday, organised by Children’s University and led by Lara, a CBBC animator. 
it was fascinating and the children absolutely loved thinking creatively and having a go at some of their own doodle monsters. All starting with a simple scribble. 
 

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Year 4 have been very busy cooking this half term! We talked about healthy alternatives to foods containing lots of preservatives in our supermarkets. We made a simple pizza with a flour and yoghurt based dough, slow cooker tomato soup and fresh bread rolls! 
the children loved the experience of…

Today, the girls participated in a rugby session led by Nikita Prothero, who plays for Sharks rugby team. The aim was to inspire more girls to join rugby clubs after the recent success of England Women’s Rugby team during the World Cup! 
 

The girls had an amazing session and really enjoyed…

Year 4 really enjoyed their first visit of the year! Lots of lovely books waiting to be read. 
 

This week we started our new art topic, drawing. We looked at the artist Giorgio Morandi who was famous for his still life drawings. We were inspired by his work and completed our own simple line contour drawings, using objects from around our classrooms. We were so pleased with our work and even…

ADDvanced Solutions Community Network has released their Autumn 1 Programme, offering support to parents on a wide variety of subjects eg. supporting friendships, sleep difficulties, supporting organisational skills, Introduction to Autism and much more.  The courses are held in a variety of…

We have been learning about electricity in `year 4. Today’s lesson we created our own simple circuits and discussed the difference between an open and closed circuit, as well as insulators and conductors of electricity. 

Year 4 recently visited Kingsley & Co, a Ykids literacy project operating as a cosy cafe and book shop in Bootle. 

The children absolutely loved playing, reading and simply sharing books for the day. It was a fantastic experience from start to finish! 

Kingsley & Co are a charity run…

Today, we celebrated Safer Internet Day by having two assemblies led by our Childnet Digital Leaders group from Year 5 & 6 with a special guest support from Kirsty Carter, part of Merseyside Police's Cyber Crime team. 

The theme this year was ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others…

Today, we started our new topic on volcanoes. We looked at the different layers of the Earth, and used play-dough to create them. Ask us about the different layers of the Earth!