Year 4 Archive

This week for our arts week project “we are architects”, the children have been creating pictures of houses using their sewing skills.  They started by sketching several pictures using various images for inspiration.  They chose their favourite picture and transferred it using pencil or markers to the felt backing.  Once complete, they used running stitch and backstitch to create their house, adding different fabrics and buttons to add detail.

Sketching

Sewing

Sketchbooks and Final Pieces

Today, year 4 were outside in the sunshine for their PE lessons.  Birch were learning basketball skills and Beech were practising the ball control in tennis.

Basketball
Birch played some short basketball games in small teams.

Tennis
Beech practised controlled hitting over a net of cones to their partner.

 

Today, year 4 led our key stage 2 worship in the hall.  Our theme was Jesus’ teachings about our actions. Our worship leaders from last year presented alongside our new worship leaders, handing over the reins to them for this year.

The children read from Matthew 7:15-20 in which Jesus talked about good and bad trees – good trees produce good fruit, bad trees produce bad fruit.  Jesus was talking about us and how our actions (our fruit) speak louder than words. Other people know us by our actions, often before even meeting us, so it is important that we show our best side at all times.

One of the children became a fruit tree, bearing good fruit from the suggestions made by the children across years 3 to 6. You can see their suggestions for good actions in the pictures!

After we sang together (When I needed a neighbour…), the children finished our worship with a prayer:

Dear God,
May our actions always be good so that people will know us by the good ways we behave.
Help us always to try our best to follow your ways.
Amen

Today was our first opportunity to visit the school library and look at all the books there are on offer. The children were able to borrow a book to take home and enjoy with their families and read as part of their daily home reading.  They absolutely loved picking out a book as you can see from the photos!

We’ve had a stunning start this week to our first term in year 4.  We have been blessed with wonderful weather which has allowed us to spend plenty of time outside working together in our new classes. During our orientation week, the children have been thinking about how communities work together, be that the school community, class community, table community. They have been engaged in lots of team work activities, thinking about how we can collaborate with each other in fun ways.  We have been thinking about why we have rules in school, what behaviours we would expect everyone to display in class to allow us to succeed with our learning, looking at our school values and in particular focusing on our term 1 value of community.

We have also been learning about place value and number using maths games and solving riddles.  We have completed some still-life drawings, identifying shapes in objects to get started, then using pencil strokes to improve the lines of the drawing along with shading techniques to add light and shadow. We rounded off the week with #ReadHour – reading books outside in the shade to keep us cool!

Class Charters

PE ~ Teamwork games

Still Life Drawing

Maths Games

#ReadHour

Hello everyone and welcome back! A huge ‘hello’ to our new children and families joining us this year too, we hope you enjoy your time with us.

You’ll find below our learning overview for term 1 across all our subjects along with our Key Instant Recall Facts for maths for this term (number bonds to 100). We are looking forward to an exciting term of learning ahead which we will share both here and on ClassDojo.

PE this year is split across 2 different days – Mondays and Wednesdays.  Please can you ensure your child brings their full PE kit into school every Monday, clearly labelled so they can participate fully in our PE activities. PE kit for all children: Navy Shorts and white T-shirt, plimsolls/ trainers. A navy-blue tracksuit for colder weather – further details can be found on the school website by following this link – School Uniform

The classrooms can be very warm with everyone busy learning, so please ensure your child has a clearly labelled water bottle with them in school each day to keep them hydrated and able to learn.

As a reminder, the school day starts at 8.30 am and ends at 3.15 pm.  Please aim to arrive at school at 8.30am as important Start Of Day Activities (SODA) take place during the time before worship and we would like all children to benefit from the maximum amount of learning time.

We are really looking forward to getting started and getting to know you all over the next few weeks.  If you have any queries, please direct them to your class teacher via ClassDojo or at the classroom door.

The Year 4 Team

Birch – Miss Fellows, Miss Wayland and Mr Shearn
Beech – Mr Houghton, Miss Hatwell and Miss Ellis

Term 1 Overview – Rivers (PDF Download)

KIRFs Term 1 – Number Bonds to 100 (PDF Download)

To finish off our learning of Ancient Egypt, year 4 had a themed day!

The children had lots of fun and they all showed off what they had learnt over the last two terms!

During prayer week each year group had the opportunity to go to St Nicholas Church and take part in different activities. The children had the opportunity to reflect and think about the things that they would like to pray for. They also learnt a lot about the different areas of the church with Rev Chris. Children enjoyed the time that they had to think about the world around them.

Here is an overview of our learning for term 4. It includes all the information you need to know regarding what the children will be learning this term.

Our topic for this term is Ancient Egyptians. We have already started our new book: Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx and we have an Egyptian Day at the end of term!

Also attached is the Year 4 Term 4– Key Instant Recall Facts for maths

At St Nicholas school it is important to us to go out into our community, meet new people and share our learning. The children enjoyed performing for the residents and chatting to them afterwards. The staff praised their excellent manners and all the residents expressed their thanks for our visit. We are so proud of them all!