Year 4

What a fantastic World Book Day we had! The children’s costumes were fantastic, everything from The World of Harry Potter and Wicked, Charlotte’s Web and the Wizard of Oz, Minions and the Cat in the Hat, The Boy in the Dress and Ratatouille, to Gangsta Granny, Soldiers, Fairies and even Walt Disney himself!

We joined in with the BBC World Book Day Live Lesson thinking about our favourite fiction and non-fiction genres. We spent time designing book covers based on the back-of-the-book blurb and the book title.

Hi everyone,

We’ve reached the half-way point and the second half of the year is just as packed with new learning.  We kick off term 4 learning about fractions and decimals in maths. In English, we will be looking at biographies – starting with Shakespeare before moving on to Marcus Rashford, then creating our own biography booklets. In history, we continue learning about the Ancient Egyptians, looking at their beliefs, hieroglyphics and the importance of the pyramids. In science, we will be investigating states of matter, looking at solids, liquids and gases. In computing, we continue nd feel of websites we are familiar with. Take a look at our overview below for further information about these and all our other subjects.

Term 4 Overview

Term 4 Overview – What did the Ancient Egyptians believe (PDF Download)

Our Key Instant Recall Facts this term revolve around the 7-times table.

KIRF – 7-times table facts (PDF Download)

Our PE day will be Thursday this term.

We look forward to welcoming you all back, ready for the new term.

The Year 4 Team – Mr Houghton, Miss Ryan, Miss Wayland, Miss Ellis and Miss Hyder

In music this term, Mrs Vincent has been teaching the children about melody and accompaniment, putting into practice the pitch and rhythm skills they have been learning in previous units. They used music from classic 80s bands such as Survivor (Eye of the Tiger) and Kraftwerk (The Man Machine) and a more recent song by Rachel Platten (Fight Song).

This term we have been lucky to have Kav with us teaching us all about Dodgeball. The children have had a great time learning the skills needed, playing games to practise and develop their skills and techniques, before playing some matches.

Today, it was wellbeing day at school and this time we had two parts to our day.  We started by working on our bug house plans, researching and designing information panels to incorporate into our finished shelters.

In the afternoon, we used the BBC micro:bits, programming them to do different things. We made them into dice to help us play games. Our favourite was programming it to play rock, paper, scissors! We even got to see how the micro:bit can be used to control a robot and make it follow a line!

Dice

Dice

Rock, Paper, Scissors!

Rock, Paper, Scissors!

Rock, Paper, Scissors!

Follow the line!

Sammy, one half of the Knuckleball twins, joined us to showcase knuckleball football skills and get the children out practising.

He told the children all about their adventures and inspired them with names of famous people they had worked with – Jürgen Klopp, Mo Salah to name just two!

The Skill Explanation

The Practice Session

We started off the term with Art Week, creating art around the theme This is me!

We studied the artist Yinka Shonibare, a British artist who works in various different media – paint, sculpture, print, photography, video, installations.

Creating watercolour wash squares to mimic Yinka’s Double Dutch artwork created in 1994.

Some of our finished pieces…

Hi everyone,

We hope you have had a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas and New Year break. We are all geared up here for a new term packed full of learning!  Our history topic for the next two terms is the Ancient Egyptians and we have so many exciting (and sometimes quite gross!) things to learn! We will be extending this theme into our English too with our new book, Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx. In maths, we will be continuing with multiplication and division, before moving on to length and perimeter, followed by fractions.  Take a look at our overview below for further information about these and all our other subjects.

Term 3 Overview

Term 3 Overview – Ancient Egyptians (PDF Download)

Our Key Instant Recall Facts this term revolve around the 9-times table.

KIRF – 9-times table facts (PDF Download)

PE this term will be on a Wednesday and a Thursday, so please ensure full PE kit is at school for those days. For full details about what the St Nicholas PE kit comprises, please visit the uniform page on our website (Uniform – St Nicholas CE Primary Academy)

The Year 4 Team – Mr Houghton, Miss Ryan, Miss Wayland, Miss Ellis, Ms Mattock

We were all very excited to be involved with Light Up New Romney 2024.  The LUNR team came into school every Wednesday in November and we had workshops to build our individual lanterns and our themed, feature lantern. We had to keep it top secret so that we didn’t give anything away before the night of the parade on 13th December – we weren’t even allowed to tell our families!! The parade started at the top of the high street and ended at the church. We sang two songs – When Christmas Comes to Town and Thank, Thank You, Jesus Christ! – at the end of the service.

The Plans!

What are we building? – the reveal

Blueprints

Workshops

The Parade

This week was Anti-Bullying Week with the theme Choose Respect. The children were able to describe what bullying is and distinguish it from just falling out with someone. On Tuesday, they wore odd socks to celebrate the fact that we are all different and that we should respect those differences.