Year 4 Chatter
Inclusion at Stockton Wood
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!
Year 4 ~ History : DEVA Chester
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
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.
multiplication and division
Year 4 have been enjoying Maths lessons this week. We have been using our resources to help with our multiplication and division.
Published Piece
This week, 4D have worked incredibly hard on writing their own mythical narratives. They should be extremely proud of their final pieces. 📚
Year 4 – Dogs Trust
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
We’ve been exploring nets of 3D shapes ready to make our desk tidy.
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DT – Year 4
Today we’ve been painting our desk tidies. We created them yesterday using nets for 3D shapes.
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CO (Carbon Monoxide) safety assembly!
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.
YEAR 4 DT WEEK
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.
Quiet Place
4D enjoyed giving each other a peer message in our whole class Quiet Place session today.
Year 4 ~ Stay and learn
Thank you for all the parents that came to join us this morning. Our session’s focus was times tables.
Safer Internet Day – Scams
In Year 4 we have been spotting scams. We’ve had lots of good discussions.
School Council meeting
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.
Stay and Learn
Thank you to everyone who joined us for stay and learn. We loved showing our grown-ups some of our times table games.
DODGEBALL COMPETITION
Well done to our Year 3 and 4s for taking part in a dodgeball competition.
Year 4 – Reading
After half term, the expectation will be for all children to have their reading book in school every day.
Science – Collecting Data
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
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
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?
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
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
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.
library visit
4D enjoyed some time reading for pleasure in our school library today 📚
Boccia
These week we had a group of Key Stage 2 children take part in a Boccia competition.
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WORLD BOOK DAY📚
For world book day, we are celebrating colour. Year 4 enjoyed a morning of books with the theme of colour in our colourful clothing. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷
World Book Day 🌎📚
Reception had some special visitors this afternoon. Year 4 came down to read some of our favourite stories!
Knowsley Safari
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
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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SCIENCE WEEK
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.
TECHNOLOGY
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.
Parents Get Involved in Neurodiversity Week.
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
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
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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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
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!
SKETCHING
What a lovely Art lesson in the sun! 4D enjoyed sketching real life objects.
Neurodiversity week
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.
Wire Trees
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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PSHE DISCUSSIONS
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.
Eid Al Fitr
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
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.
Stay and Learn
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.
Speke Sign Award Ceremony
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.
The Journey
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
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.
Gospel Music
4D really enjoyed exploring the gospel song ‘ Train is A-Coming’ in today’s music lesson.
Year 3 & 4 Handball
An exciting afternoon with our handball team, excellent effort and determination!
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New computer suite
Thanks Mr Moffat for an excellent computing lesson in our new computer suite. The children were so exciting!
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Glockenspiels
4D enjoyed performing A Train is A-Coming on the glockenspiels today.
WINNERS🏆
Well done to our Year 4 children who won their New Age Kurling competition.
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Dictionary work
4D have been using their dictionary skills to help them understand vocabulary in English.
Mindful week
We started our mindful week with a good discussion. We also relaxed to some music with mindful colouring.
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Mindful
Today in 4C we created appreciation cards. We thought about the people who care for us.
Year 4 DT
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.
Online Safety
In computing, 4D have been learning about the importance of keeping safe online.
Design a picnic for our Reception friends
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
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.
Picnic
Year 4 came and shared their picnic with us! They worked very hard and reception enjoyed their food. Thank you Year 4!
Year 4 Sports Day
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
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.
Year 3 & 4 Football
Great work our Year 3 and 4 football teams this afternoon! Well done boys who came first🤩
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DATA COLLECTION
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.
PSHE ~ Communities
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
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
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
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
Year 4 had an amazing visit from the fabulous author Luke Temple. Autographed books will be available to buy from school tomorrow.
KS2 Author visit – Luke Temple
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!
Atlas work
Today, 4D were geographers. We used our atlas skills to find and label famous UK rivers.
Lifesavers ~ Charities
As part of our lifesavers we have been discussing different charities. The children then chose one to research.
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MOVING HOUSE
Year 4 have been discussing big changes in our life and how they make us feel.
LIFESAVERS WEEK
‘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.
Year 4 – Aspirations Week
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!
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.
Refugee week
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!”
Aspirations Week – A Life in Football
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!
Science – teeth / egg experiment
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
This week in Computing we have been learning about binary and how we can use that to create pixel art.
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Quidditch
Year 4 had a fantastic time taking part in a quidditch tournament on Friday.
ART WEEK
Year 4 used their knowledge of primary colours to complete the first Art lesson of the week.
Cricket
During today’s PE lesson, Year 4 focused on developing the fundamental skills of cricket.
Painting ~ Year 4
On Monday we started art week by using watercolours to mix secondary and tertiary colours.
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Digestive System
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
Here are our final pieces, we used our watercolours skills to create beautiful fish.
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Coding with Everton in the community
This morning, the children were learning how to code to instruct a robot to score goals.
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Bastille Day
Today we learnt about Bastille Day. We had a French themed lunch and created flags.
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Bastille Day
Today, Year 4 celebrated Bastille Day by making a flag to commemorate the special day.
Sharing books from Year 4
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
Well done our Year 3 and 4 Tag Rugby team! Excellent work as a team on a hot sunny day ☀️
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Year 4 End of Year Trip
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.
Goodbye 4C
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
The children worked really hard this afternoon drawing self portraits, they thought about line, proportion and detail.
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Branching Databases
In computing lessons, 4D have been using JIT5 software to create branching databases.
School Council
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.
Peace
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
Well done to our Year 3 and 4 boys for winning their football competition 🏆
Newspaper Reports
Today we’ve started looking at newspaper reports in our English. We enjoyed reading exploring ‘First News’.
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We are Reporters…
This week we have been sharing our news reports about marine mammals found around Liverpool.
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School Council – Competition
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.
School Council – Community space
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.
Black History Month
In Year 4, we have been learning about Katherine Johnson’s amazing contributions in sending astronauts to space.
Place Value
We have been using place value charts and counters to help with addition and subtraction.
Black History Month
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.
Changing Feelings
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
In this weeks PE lesson, Year 4 put their hockey skills to the test in a mini tournament.
Maths Party Day
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. 🔢
DT ~ Can you create a circuit to light up the bulb?
This afternoon we made simple circuits. We then looked at which materials could work as a switch.
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Stay and Learn
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.
DT WEEK
4D have spent the week exploring circuits and designing structures. We finished the week creating our very own light up lighthouses 💡
Using scratch
4D had a great computing lesson learning how to use scratch to create loops with Mr Moffat.
Compromises
In PSHE, we have been discussing compromises. We had a lovely discussion of why we should compromise and what makes a good compromise? Year 4 had some fabulous answers of how we could deal with different scenarios.
Arrays
Today Year 4 have been creating arrays using counters and cubes. We could build different times table facts and thought about the related repeated addition facts.
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What would I do?
Today in PSHE, we looked at how everyone is similar but we also have lots of differences. We discussed how we react to different situations but how we respond is very important. We had a lovely discussion about the importance of an effective apology.
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Similar and different ~ PSHE
Today we discussed how we value difference. We talked about how we could be the same but different from our friends.
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Oobleck Science Experiment
In science, we have been learning about states of matter. Today, we had lots of fun using oobleck to understand that objects can change state.
Children in Need
Year 4 children dressed up and donated to celebrate Children in Need 💛
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6 times tables
Year 4 have been practising their 6 times tables in maths. Today, they used counters and cubes to build arrays that helped them work out their times-table questions.
All Saints Woodland Trail
A Year 4 child has been involved in planning, designing and creating the new All Saints Woodland trail.
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9 times tables
In maths, Year 4 have been learning their 9 times tables. Today, we looked at the patterns and different ways to work out the 9 times tables.
Anti-Bullying Week
Year 4 had a lovely morning working with Altru for Anti-Bullying Week. We watched an amazing play and had a workshop focusing on the importance of using our power for good.
Cricket
Year 4 have been enjoying the cricket sessions with Mr White. This week we have been focusing on our batting skills.
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Building arrays
Year 4 have been using cubes and counters to build arrays to help us understand our times tables.
Silent Night
We are getting into the festive spirit in our music lessons 🎄🎅🏻 Year 4 have started learning how to play Silent Night on the keyboards.
Researching Arctic Mammals
Year 4 are preparing to write an information report on Arctic mammals. Today, we used different articles to gather facts about polar bears.
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Sketching in Church
This morning, all of Year 4 went to visit All Saints church. We learnt all about the symbols used in a a church. We then had some time sketching: the stain glass window, the cross, nativity, cup and bowl and nativity candle.
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Friends or acquaintances?
In PSHE, we discussed the different kinds of relationships that people have and how this might affect what we tell them.
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Islands
In PSHE, we discussed our personal bubbles and how important it is to respect people’s boundaries.
Christmas Fun
4D are enjoying discovering what the elf has been up to each night. Well done to the Year 4 children who found the golden tickets hidden by the elf and enjoyed a chocolate treat.
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Choir
On Friday, our choir visited Liverpool John Lennon Airport. We raised £217.91 which will go towards improving our outdoor play!
Maths Party Day Winner.
Well done to our Year 4 pupil for winning Liverpool’s Maths Party Day competition! Her entry has been transformed into a Rubex cube artwork by the talented artist Fai, who presented it to her in assembly today.
Merry Christmas
Thank you Year 4 for a great first term. We hope you have a lovely Christmas break and look forward to seeing you back in school in the new year. 🎄❤️
Miss Doherty and Mrs Costello
Factor Pairs
Year 4 used arrays to help work out the factor pairs of different numbers.
Creating Vibrations
This week in science, we learned that sound is made through vibrations. The children used different instruments to explore and demonstrate how vibrations create sound.
Roman Deva Experience
4D had a fantastic day at the Roman Deva Experience, discovering what life was like for the Romans and taking part in activities where we pretended to be Roman soldiers.
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Deva ~ Roman Experience
Today we were Roman soldiers. We learnt how to chant and march, we learn the testudo formation and how soldiers would attack in a battle.
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Scratch
Yesterday, Mr Moffat showed us how to write code for a game where a shark is trying to eat fish. Some of us even made the game more challenging with a scorer and multiple fish.
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Discussing Dares
Year 4 engaged in a great discussion about dares and ways to respond to them appropriately.
Reading Buddies
Year 4 came and read a story to the Reception children. The Year 4 children read and asked questions to the Reception children. The Reception children even read some words to the Year 4 pupils.
Reading Buddies
This week Year 4 have been sharing books with our reception reading buddies.
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School Council – Liverpool Cathedral
Our children attended Liverpool Anglican Cathedral to celebrate a fun and interactive Christingle service. Although this took place later than Christmas, the service was held as a fundraising event in support of The Children”s Society, helping to raise money for their important work with young people and families. As always, our children made us proud.
Dividing a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number
In Year 4, we have been using place value counters to help us answer questions like 92 dividing by 4.
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Feed Your Mind – LFC
We were delighted to welcome a special visitor this morning — Mighty Red! He joined us in assembly to share all about LFC’s Feed Your Mind reading programme.
Number of the Week
This week Year 4’s number of the week was 721. We have been using our maths resources to show different ways we represent the number.
KEYBOARD LESSONS
This week in music, we have been learning how to play the Harry Potter theme song on the keyboards.
Whole School assembly – LFC Foundation.
Mighty Red and Wendy came to our school to tell us the exciting news about the ‘Feed your mind’ programme.
We get to choose a book to take home and then using a QR code, we can write a review to help others to decide if they would like that book next.
Happy reading everyone!
Liverpool Foundation- Feed Your Mind assembly
We all enjoyed our assembly with the Liverpool Foundation about the importance of reading. We are excited to win books from the selection donated to us by the Liverpool Foundation. Don’t forget to scan the QR code and write a review on the book you choose!
DT WEEK
This week in DT Year 4 researched, designed and created their own desk tidies.
STAY AND LEARN
Thank you to all parents who were able to join us on Tuesday morning. We hoped you enjoyed Year 4’s concert, showcasing our musical talents on keyboards.
We’re Off!
Year 4 are off on their residential to the Catalyst museum! Lots of excited children.
Keyring Making Workshop
Year 4 are having a fabulous time on their residential. We spent the afternoon making a keychain.
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Bowling
We wrapped up our residential with a few games of bowling. We have had an amazing time!
Assembly with Rev Phil
This morning, Rev Phil came in to remind us to be thankful.
As always, it was a fun assembly with an important message.
Building Circuits
We have been exploring electricity in science. Yesterday, we tried to build our own series circuit.
Science ~ Observing electricity
This week, we went for a walk around school looking for examples of electricity. We discussed how some appliances are plugged into the mains electrics and some use batteries.
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Athletics
A fabulous day at Liverpool University doing athletics with the PE students. We completed some great PE challenges.
World Book Day
Year 4 had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day📚 We enjoyed the Premier League Footy and Booky quiz and we recreated our favourite book. Most of all, we enjoyed hearing a story from our mystery readers.
