Year 4 Chatter

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Year 4 Chatter

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4D PE

22-01-2025

4D enjoyed their PE with their new sports coach👟

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Year 4 ~ Library

23-01-2025

Year 4 love exploring new books in the library.

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Inclusion at Stockton Wood

24-01-2025

Year 4 had a fantastic Circle Time today discussing what inclusion looks like at our school. We used our IQM bear to help guide the conversation and share our ideas. 🐻✨ It’s wonderful to see such thoughtful reflections from our pupils!

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Year 4 ~ History : DEVA Chester

27-01-2025

Today, Year 4 had an exciting day in Chester. We learnt all about life in the Roman times and we even got to be a Roman soldier for the afternoon!

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YEAR 4 ROMAN TRIP

27-01-2025

Year 4 had an exciting day exploring the Deva Roman Experience. We learnt about life during Roman times and we really enjoyed getting to be a Roman soldier going to battle.

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multiplication and division

31-01-2025

Year 4 have been enjoying Maths lessons this week. We have been using our resources to help with our multiplication and division.

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Published Piece

31-01-2025

This week, 4D have worked incredibly hard on writing their own mythical narratives. They should be extremely proud of their final pieces. 📚

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Year 4 – Dogs Trust

03-02-2025

Today we had an interesting session from the dogs trust. 🐕‍🦺🐩🦮 We learnt about how dogs use their senses and how to safely interact with dogs.

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Exploring Nets – Year 4 DT

04-02-2025

We’ve been exploring nets of 3D shapes ready to make our desk tidy.

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DT – Year 4

05-02-2025

Today we’ve been painting our desk tidies. We created them yesterday using nets for 3D shapes.

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KAPLA ~ DT

05-02-2025

What is the tallest stable tower you can build with 10 pieces?

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CO (Carbon Monoxide) safety assembly!

06-02-2025

We learnt an important message today about Carbon Monoxide (otherwise known as CO) safety.

You can’t see it, hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it!

Homework task:

  • Check if you have a CO alarm in your home!
  • Make a note of the signs and symptoms to look out for and also the number to call if you suspect any CO in your home.
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YEAR 4 DT WEEK

06-02-2025

This week, we have been exploring structures in preparation for designing our own desk tidy. Today, we painted our final design. 4D created some very impressive structures.

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Quiet Place

07-02-2025

4D enjoyed giving each other a peer message in our whole class Quiet Place session today.

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Year 4 ~ Stay and learn

11-02-2025

Thank you for all the parents that came to join us this morning. Our session’s focus was times tables.

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Safer Internet Day – Scams

11-02-2025

In Year 4 we have been spotting scams. We’ve had lots of good discussions.

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School Council meeting

11-02-2025

Our school council were busy this morning, thinking of ideas for special rewards for reading at home and also for charities to donate to as part of our Social Impact Schools Award.

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Stay and Learn

12-02-2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for stay and learn. We loved showing our grown-ups some of our times table games.

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DODGEBALL COMPETITION

13-02-2025

Well done to our Year 3 and 4s for taking part in a dodgeball competition.

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Year 4 – Reading

13-02-2025

After half term, the expectation will be for all children to have their reading book in school every day.

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YEAR 4 KAPLA

13-02-2025

4D enjoyed the challenge of creating different structures.

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Science – Collecting Data

24-02-2025

As part of our science we have collecting data around school of what we could observe. We had 4 categories : vertebrate, invertebrate, flowering plants and non-flowering plants.

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LGBT+ Awareness

24-02-2025

As part of LGBT+ awareness week, we read a booked called ‘Introducing Teddy’. We discussed the story of gender and friendship. The children wrote letters to Tilly from Errol.

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Making Predictions

25-02-2025

In English, we’ve been making predictions about our new book. We look at items, read the notes in a jar, listened to an extract and looked closely at illustrations.

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Who helps us?

26-02-2025

We have started a new PSHE unit : Rights and respect. We have been discussing how different people help us.

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New books

27-02-2025

We’ve started 2 news books in 4C. ‘The Lost Happy Endings’ by Carol Ann Duffy is our vehicle text in English and ‘The Lost thing’ by Shaun Tan is our class reader.

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Special Delivery

27-02-2025

Today, we had a special delivery from the with. She has assigned 4D with the task of writing a twisted ending for their favourite fairytale. We can’t wait to get started.

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library visit

28-02-2025

4D enjoyed some time reading for pleasure in our school library today 📚

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Moving Making

04-03-2025

4D enjoyed creating a mini movie today using a green screen.

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Boccia

05-03-2025

These week we had a group of Key Stage 2 children take part in a Boccia competition.

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PSHE

05-03-2025

Today, 4D looked at how different professionals keep us safe!

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WORLD BOOK DAY📚

06-03-2025

For world book day, we are celebrating colour. Year 4 enjoyed a morning of books with the theme of colour in our colourful clothing. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷

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Reading Buddies

06-03-2025

Year 4 loved sharing stories with RM 📚

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World Book Day 🌎📚

06-03-2025

Reception had some special visitors this afternoon. Year 4 came down to read some of our favourite stories!

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CRICKET

07-03-2025

What a lovely morning spent with Lancashire County Cricket!

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Knowsley Safari

11-03-2025

This morning Knowsley Safari spoke to use about how our little actions can impact on animals and nature. We discussed how to make more sustainable choices.

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Blubber Gloves

11-03-2025

As part of Science week, we’ve been learning about how penguins have adapted to their environment. Blubber helps them keep warm, we did a taste to see how blubber keeps our hands warm.

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Ohbot

12-03-2025

This morning, Mr Moffat has given us an introduction to coding using OhBot.

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SCIENCE WEEK

12-03-2025

Year 4 have been loving Science week🔬
So far, we have enjoyed a talk from Knowsley safari park.
We also have been investigating how animals adapt to their environment by conducting a blubber experiment.


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TECHNOLOGY

12-03-2025

We have been learning about STEM in Science Week. Today, we looked at technology. We enjoyed using AI and coding to make our robots talk.

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Parents Get Involved in Neurodiversity Week.

13-03-2025

Below is a list of workshops available to parents during Neurodiversity Celebration Week. Simply click on the workshop your would like to attend to register. You will be able to access the workshops via your mobile phone, tablet or computer. If you need help speak to Mrs Kent (SENCo)

https://www.neurodiversityweek.com/_files/ugd/46eb70_e3ce426f85ca411ebf75ef1d9ce61b10.pdf

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Drawing with shade and detail

17-03-2025

In Year 4, we have started Art Week by experimenting with a range of sketching pencils. We then used a view finder to draw sections of ‘Tiger in a Tropic Storm’.

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Dyslexia

18-03-2025

This morning we had a really good discussion about dyslexia. We discussed how everyone’s brain works differently, and the strengths and struggles that come with this.

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18-03-2025

This morning we have sketching trees in real life. We’ve been thinking about shape, form, shadow and detail.

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Neurodiversity Celebration Week

19-03-2025

A huge thank you to Mr Boyd for hanging our neurodiversity umbrellas! Neurodiversity is an umbrella term used to refer to all of the different ways of thinking. This week the children are learning about Autism, Dyslexia, ADHD and Dyspraxia. Ask your child if they know any famous people who are neurodivergant!

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Science Experiment

19-03-2025

4D experimented with circuits to show the flow of electricity.

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SKETCHING

19-03-2025

What a lovely Art lesson in the sun! 4D enjoyed sketching real life objects.

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Neurodiversity week

21-03-2025

To celebrate Neurodiversity week, 4D have been learning about how we are all different from one another. We have been focusing on dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and ASD.

We especially have been loving our colourful school.

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Wire Trees

24-03-2025

Last week, we created wire tree sculptures. We twisted the wire to secure a trunk base, then added branches and beads.

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ART FINAL PIECES

24-03-2025

4D enjoyed using wires and beads to create their tree sculptures.

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PSHE DISCUSSIONS

28-03-2025

4D discussed how our behaviours can impact how someone feels. We also discussed the importance of not being a passive witness when we see negative behaviour happening.

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Eid Al Fitr

31-03-2025

Today we discussed the Islamic celebration of Eid Al Fitr. Then, we looked aT and discussed Islamic art. Finally we created our own work inspired by Islamic Art.

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Eid Al Fitr

31-03-2025

Today, we looked at the Islamic festival of Eid. We had lots of discussion about the celebration and the type of Islamic art we might see at this time. We, then, had a go at creating our own Islamic patterns.

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Stay and Learn

01-04-2025

Thank you to all grown-ups who could make it to Year 4’s Stay and Learn this morning. We loved doing our science experiment with you.

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Speke Sign Award Ceremony

01-04-2025

Well done to our Year 4 children who received an award today for their amazing signs about Speke. We look forward to seeing your signs all around Speke.

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The Journey

28-04-2025

The first lesson of our new English unit was all about making predictions. The children enjoyed lots of discussion as we collected our ideas, making links to between objects.

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HINDU VISITOR

28-04-2025

Year 4 had a lovely afternoon with a visit from a local Hindu. We learnt what life is like as a British Hindu and even got to practise some yoga.

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Gospel Music

01-05-2025

4D really enjoyed exploring the gospel song ‘ Train is A-Coming’ in today’s music lesson.

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Year 3 & 4 Handball

01-05-2025

An exciting afternoon with our handball team, excellent effort and determination!

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New computer suite

07-05-2025

Thanks Mr Moffat for an excellent computing lesson in our new computer suite. The children were so exciting!

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Glockenspiels

07-05-2025

4D enjoyed performing A Train is A-Coming on the glockenspiels today.

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WINNERS🏆

08-05-2025

Well done to our Year 4 children who won their New Age Kurling competition.

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HEALTHY LIFESTYLES

09-05-2025

In PSHE, 4D discussed the importance of a healthy lifestyle:

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Dictionary work

12-05-2025

4D have been using their dictionary skills to help them understand vocabulary in English.

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Mindful week

12-05-2025

We started our mindful week with a good discussion. We also relaxed to some music with mindful colouring.

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Mindful

13-05-2025

Today in 4C we created appreciation cards. We thought about the people who care for us.

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Year 4 DT

13-05-2025

In Year 4, we are designing and making a picnic for our reception friends. Today we asked them a range of questions to find out what they like and dislike. We then went back to class to design them a perfect picnic.

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Online Safety

14-05-2025

In computing, 4D have been learning about the importance of keeping safe online.

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7 R’s

15-05-2025

4D have been learning about the 7rs to help save the environment.

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Design a picnic for our Reception friends

15-05-2025

Today we made our picnic. We followed our plan from the other day. We used a range of skills: speak, cut, grate, garnish and mix. We thought about appearance, texture and taste.

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CREATING PICNIC

16-05-2025

This week in DT, we have researched, planned and made a picnic for our reception classes.
4D really enjoyed putting together their picnic plates, thinking about appearance, texture and taste.

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Picnic

16-05-2025

Year 4 came and shared their picnic with us! They worked very hard and reception enjoyed their food. Thank you Year 4!

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Year 4 Sports Day

20-05-2025

Excellent work today Year 4! Everyone tried their best in their races and events. Thank you to all the parents that came to watch.

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Researching Anglo-Saxons

22-05-2025

We have been learning about Anglo-Saxon’s beliefs. We used our web search skills from our computing lessons to guide our research. It helped us find accurate and reliable information.

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Year 3 & 4 Football

22-05-2025

Great work our Year 3 and 4 football teams this afternoon! Well done boys who came first🤩

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DATA COLLECTION

03-06-2025

We collected data on what plants and animals are in our local area. We used our data to create tally charts, pictograms and bar charts.

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PSHE ~ Communities

04-06-2025

Today we had a good discussion about all the different communities we belong to. When then thought about the Stockton Wood school community and thought about all the different communities we people that help us.

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First Aid

05-06-2025

Sheila came to speak to both year 4 classes this afternoon about her role as a first aider. She discussed the training she has received and how she would deal with an emergency.

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Year 4 Music

05-06-2025

Today we listened to ‘You can see it through’, the children couldn’t stop dancing to the electronic dance music. We then played along on the glockenspiels.

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Pixel Art

05-06-2025

A great first lesson of our new unit, the children did a great job designing pixel art using pen and paper.

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Author visit

09-06-2025

Year 4 had an amazing visit from the fabulous author Luke Temple. Autographed books will be available to buy from school tomorrow.

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KS2 Author visit – Luke Temple

09-06-2025

Luke shared his fantastic adventure stories with us this morning. The main character is called Felix Dashwood and Luke helped us to bring the characters to life and explore the problems that they come across.

We had a chance to ask Luke some great questions and see how the illustrator brings his characters to life too!

Signed books about Felix’s adventures and the characters she meets on her way, will be on sale in school tomorrow!

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Atlas work

09-06-2025

Today, 4D were geographers. We used our atlas skills to find and label famous UK rivers.

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Wraparound After School Club

12-06-2025
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Lifesavers ~ Charities

12-06-2025

As part of our lifesavers we have been discussing different charities. The children then chose one to research.

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Pixel Art

12-06-2025

The children did an amazing job drawing their designs onto the computer.

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MOVING HOUSE

13-06-2025

Year 4 have been discussing big changes in our life and how they make us feel.

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LIFESAVERS WEEK

13-06-2025

‘What does it mean to be charitable?’

Year 4 discussed the importance of being charitable. We researched different charities and the important work they do.

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Year 4 – Aspirations Week

16-06-2025

A great start to our week in 4C – Can you guess what we would like our future careers to be?

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Aspirations Week!

16-06-2025

In assembly, we discussed what it means to have aspirations.

We had the chance to dress up in the role that we aspire to be when we are older.

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Refugee week

17-06-2025

Our assembly today was about raising awareness of what it means to be a refugee – Community is a superpower!

Many countries have many people that are forced to flee for their safety.

One of our children ended assembly with her own thoughts on being a community – “People are getting used to being around different types of people and the world is a colourful place!”

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Aspirations Week – A Life in Football

18-06-2025

Years 3, 4 and 5 really enjoyed hearing Mr Jones talking about a range of different careers there are in Football. It was really interesting to hear about how hard he worked to be a professional footballer!

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Science – teeth / egg experiment

19-06-2025

This week we have been learning about teeth. We did an experiment to see how different drinks affect our teeth. We used eggs as their shells are similar to enamel.

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Binary Pixel Art

19-06-2025

This week in Computing we have been learning about binary and how we can use that to create pixel art.

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MGL Newsletter

20-06-2025
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Quidditch

23-06-2025

Year 4 had a fantastic time taking part in a quidditch tournament on Friday.

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ART WEEK

24-06-2025

Year 4 used their knowledge of primary colours to complete the first Art lesson of the week.

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Cricket

24-06-2025

During today’s PE lesson, Year 4 focused on developing the fundamental skills of cricket.

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Painting ~ Year 4

24-06-2025

On Monday we started art week by using watercolours to mix secondary and tertiary colours.

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Digestive System

24-06-2025

We created the digestive system, using water for salvia, a masher as teeth, a bag as the stomach, vinegar as stomach acid and tights as intestines.

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Year 4 ~Watercolours

30-06-2025

Here are our final pieces, we used our watercolours skills to create beautiful fish.

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MGL Online Safety Newsletter

04-07-2025
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ART WEEK

07-07-2025

Last week, 4D created some lovely final art pieces.

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Coding

08-07-2025

Year 4 enjoyed a coding session with Everton in the Community this morning.

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Coding with Everton in the community

08-07-2025

This morning, the children were learning how to code to instruct a robot to score goals.

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Bastille Day

14-07-2025

Today we learnt about Bastille Day. We had a French themed lunch and created flags.

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Bastille Day

14-07-2025

Today, Year 4 celebrated Bastille Day by making a flag to commemorate the special day.

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Sharing books from Year 4

16-07-2025

Today, we’ve looked over all the books we have read in our English and Reading lessons. The children discussed their favourite books and reasons why.

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Tag Rugby

17-07-2025

Well done our Year 3 and 4 Tag Rugby team! Excellent work as a team on a hot sunny day ☀️

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MGL Online Safety Newsletter

18-07-2025
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Year 4 End of Year Trip

21-07-2025

Year 4 had a great day at Martin Mere for their end of year trip. We explored the wet land, saw lots of different and animals and went pond dipping.

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Martin Mere

21-07-2025

Year 4 had a lovely day exploring Martin Mere.

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Goodbye 4C

22-07-2025

Thank you 4C for such a lovely year. You have worked so hard and been amazing! 🤩 Thank you to all the parents for all their support – practising times tables, helping on trips, reading and at home and so much more. Good luck in Year 5 ❤️

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Self – portraits

04-09-2025

The children worked really hard this afternoon drawing self portraits, they thought about line, proportion and detail.

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PE

10-09-2025

4D have been practising their basic throwing and catching skills in PE.

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PE

11-09-2025

We had a great start to our dodgeball lessons. We practised through at targets.

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Branching Databases

15-09-2025

In computing lessons, 4D have been using JIT5 software to create branching databases.

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KAPLA

18-09-2025

We had an exciting morning creating these little people out of KAPLA.

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KAPLA

18-09-2025

4D had a fabulous morning building a bridge using KAPLA.

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Human machines

18-09-2025

Year 4 worked as a team to become human machines.

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MGL Newsletter

19-09-2025
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School Council

22-09-2025

Stockton Wood School Council were announced this morning in assembly. Congratulations to these children (the rest are to follow tomorrow).
Also, we like to say a huge well done to those that prepared a speech and put themselves forward for the role this year – the number of votes were very close.

Watch this space for your successful year group school councillors.

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Peace

24-09-2025

Following on from our assembly theme of ‘Peace’, in our collective workshop time we have been creating posters about peace means to us.

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Football Competition

24-09-2025

Well done to our Year 3 and 4 boys for winning their football competition 🏆

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Newspaper Reports

25-09-2025

Today we’ve started looking at newspaper reports in our English. We enjoyed reading exploring ‘First News’.

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Spanish day

29-09-2025

Year 4 celebrated Spanish Day by creating El Carnaval masks. 🇪🇸

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Music lessons

29-09-2025

4D have had a fantastic start to their music lessons.

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We are Reporters…

01-10-2025

This week we have been sharing our news reports about marine mammals found around Liverpool.

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English skills

02-10-2025

4D were using a thesaurus in today’s English lesson about synonyms.

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School Council – Competition

03-10-2025

School council met yesterday to launch a competition to design a logo for the Cradle to Career Project in Speke.

The Cradle to Career Project would appreciate your involvement and there will be a £40 Cineworld voucher for the winning entry (other local schools are also taking part).

Your child will need to hand in their entries to their teacher, by Friday 10th October.

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School Council – Community space

03-10-2025

Our school council have been busy helping to shape a local woodland space. One of the many things we suggested were animal carvings to make it a welcoming and creative place for the whole community to enjoy!

Remember to look out for them around All Saints Church, as the area is further developed.

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MGL Newsletter Issue 12

03-10-2025
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Black History Month

07-10-2025

In Year 4, we have been learning about Katherine Johnson’s amazing contributions in sending astronauts to space.

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Place Value

07-10-2025

We have been using place value charts and counters to help with addition and subtraction.

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Reception 2026 – Open Evening

08-10-2025
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Black History Month

09-10-2025

In Year 4 we shared a book about Katherine Johnson, they children learnt all about her life and the difficulties she overcame. They created posters celebrating her achievements in Maths and Science.

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Addition

09-10-2025

This week we have been adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000.

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Changing Feelings

09-10-2025

In PSHE we have been discussing changing feelings. Sometimes this happens, but why? How do we feel about the change? We watched the trailer of the film ‘Wonder’ to discuss how some children’s feelings changed.

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Hockey

15-10-2025

In this weeks PE lesson, Year 4 put their hockey skills to the test in a mini tournament.

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MGL Online Safety Newsletter

17-10-2025
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Maths Party Day

17-10-2025

Year 4 have had a lovely morning celebrating maths party day. 4D used the skill of scaling to design a train station. We really enjoyed our zoom our maths party day zoom, learning how we can use maths in art. It has been lovely to see everyone dressed up in their numbers. 🔢

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After School Care at Stockton Wood

17-10-2025
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DT ~ Can you create a circuit to light up the bulb?

21-10-2025

This afternoon we made simple circuits. We then looked at which materials could work as a switch.

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Stay and Learn

21-10-2025

Thank you to all the parents who were able to join us for stay and learn. We loved sharing what we have learned in our maths lesson this year.

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