Year 4

Today, was the start of Walk to School Week, where thousands of children across the country, will be walking in the morning to get to school. Despite the rain, lots of children in year 4 walked to school to get their first sticker on our wall chart. 

We started the day with an…

This week, as part of the school Drug Safety Week we have been investigating the effects of smoking on our bodies and wallets! 

We we have discovered some of the many nasty chemicals and ingredients that form a cigarette. Did you know that a chemical found in rat poision is also…

Before the Easter holidays, children in KS2 were set the challenge of creating their own Easter Egg. Lots of children in year 4, put great effort into designing their eggs, creating egg scenes and even egg celebrities. Miss Noble was given the tough job of picking the class winners. After…

Well done to all of the children in year 4 who swam a total of 120 lengths to raise money for St Joseph's penny. Every child put in 100%. With every stroke the children were having fun and felt extremely proud to be raising money for a good cause at the same time! 

Today, we headed over to Our Lady's High School for our second session of PE and ICT or food technology. After taking her group to ICT on our last visit, today Miss Whitehead and her group enjoyed a food technology lesson. 

Firstly, in PE we started with another balancing activity, again…

This afternoon we got changed into our PE kits and headed to Our Lady's High School for 2 different lessons. Firstly, we all took part in a PE lesson. To warm up we balanced with one leg rested on the other knee. Some children lost their balance quickly but others like Weronika were standing until…

In science today, we were investigating the melting point of margarine and chocolate to help our friend Ziggy make a cake for his party. We used a small cooker and a thermometer to help us. We found the melting point of chocolate was around 35 oC. Unfortunately, Ziggy does not have a cooker so we…

We were very excited for our trip on Wednesday to court. The coach arrived just on time and drove us through town where we met Kath.

Just as she described the first people we met were security. They were really polite and helped us through all of the security procedures. One of…

In preparation for our trip tomorrow, we had a visitor today called Kath. She works in Manchester Crown Court. Tomorrow, when we are at the court, we are going to wear stickers with our names on so she can learn our names too! 

We started by looking at a picture of Manchester Crown Court and…

What a week we have had! On Wednesday afternoon, we had some special visitors from Sainsbury's Heaton Park. They work upstairs at Explore Learning. They told us we were going to do some calculations to work out the perfect recipe for some pretty disgusting meals. The information we were given was…

On Monday, we went on another trip to Our Lady's High School for a science lesson. This week, we used an ICT suite which looked really impressive.

Our first challenge was to explain how a tasty burger ends up as feces (poo!) There was lots of talk of feces, this made some of us feel…

As part of our new computing unit year 4 are designing are new toy, for children. We are aiming our designs at children in Key Stage 1. We need to make sure that our toy has an input (such as pressing a button) and an output (the toy moving for example) 

You can see us here working together to…