Year 4

We have been celebrating Chinese New Year this week in 4W.

We started by learning about the country China and then performed the zodiac animal story. We even wrote diary entries for some of the characters. Using the Ipads, we researched the typical personalities…

What a great day we had at Manchester museum! When we arrived we were given time to look around the museum before our Ancient Egyptian lesson. We loved the living things section where we saw real life frogs, snakes and even a lizard catching a cricket. It was also really interesting to see…

We all really enjoyed performing for our family and friends last week at the music performance. It wasnt easy singing and playing the ukulele at the same time, but was a challenge we greatly enjoyed. All the children in years 3 & 4 played and sang beautifully. We also felt really lucky to hear the…

This week, the current peer mediators planned and carried out a training session for the new additions to the team, who will start their role as peer mediators after Christmas. The new peer mediators who are in year 4, played memory games, listened to the older children's advice, watched role…

This afternoon, Mrs a Wheeler gave us all the components to make a circuit with a bulb, but she didn't tell us how to put it together. We knew we would have it when the bulb lit! It didn't take long before Maheen and Chris made the perfect circuit. After that, it didn't take long until we all had…

On Friday, year 6 came to tell us about the advent bags. 

We leant that every family will get an advent bag for one evening in December. Families should set out the small statues of Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. Together you can say a prayer, retell the nativity story, discuss the significance…

This week, we had the chance to look at Ancient Egyptian artefacts, including clothing, pottery, weapons and statues. We looked at them closely and even tried a few things on. We created different drama scenes with pharaohs and slaves, also traders selling animal fur and pottery. It was a…

Yesterday, year 4 went to Egypt with Google expedition. When we placed the box in front of our eyes and saw the pyramids of Giza. As we moved our head what we saw moved too. Everything felt lifesized, as if we were really stood in the dessert. It was amazing! 

We heard that other classes went…

This afternoon, a dance teacher from Our Lady's high school visited us to do a fantastic lesson. We learnt different kinds of jumps and routines. Some moves were quite difficult, but we kept on practising!

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We even tried a move called the helicopter

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We have loved our biscuit focus in science this week. We started by creating our own questions of things we wanted to find out. For example Haaroon asked if biscuits crumbled differently in hot and cold water. Georgia wanted to know how much weight can be put on a biscuit before it crumbles. Lots…

This morning, 4E kindly invited 4W to their Skype session with John Bercow. John is the speaker of the House of Commons and loves his job. We asked him questions about his job and for his opinions on things happening around the world. 

He told us that he voted to remain in the…

As part of our Ancient Greek topic we created our own coil pots using clay and then painted them in traditional colours and decorated them with Greek patterns. It was great getting dirty and creating something useful out of a lump of a lump of clay. We had to be careful when painting our patterns,…