Year 4

This week we went on our first visit to Our Lady's High School of 2015. We are really pleased that they invited us back. Miss Whitehead has said that it is because we work so hard and are really polite and respectful. 

We started the lesson with the alphabet. We had to name an animal that…

Last week, year 4 had a visit from a Roman soldier!! Many of us first saw him in the playground greeting children as they arrived for school. He taught us lots about himself, the Roman Empire and Roman Britain. We even learnt some Latin! Also we were able to have a close look at Roman objects,…

Year 4 were lucky enough to be invited to Our Lady's High School for another science lesson. Today we were in a science classroom which had very long desks. We learnt how to be safe when in a science lab, which we hope will be very soon! It is important to be sensible and follow rules when in the…

Here are Emma and Charly our new winners of learning log of the week. They are holding Emma's game all about the Romans. We can't wait to have some time to play it. 

We can't wait to see who wins next week! 

In science we have been learning how to classify animals using a key. Did you know that a new species of frog has been found in New York? Scientists spent 2 years trying to classify it. 

We wanted to use a key ourselves to explore how they work, so as a class we first started by trying to…

This week has been anti bullying week and we have been focusing on this in our lessons. In year 4 we discussed what bullying is and what we see and hear when it is taking place. We also shared what we see and hear in school when there are strong friendships, we had a lot more information on…

This morning year 4 boarded two mini buses to Our Lady's RC High School. Once there we walked through the impressive school to a science lab where we were greeted by a science teacher. 

The science lab was very different to our year 4 classroom.

We had to sit in 2's and there were…

Wow what fantastic learning logs we saw today, everyone put in hard work after our visit to the zoo to complete our habitat homework. 

Emma and and iara won learning logs of the week. We'll done! It was very hard to choose though. We used information we learnt at the zoo and did some…

We had a fantastic day at Blackpool Zoo on Friday! We were all very excited on the coach, during the journey we sang songs and shared which animals we were all looking forward to seeing. 

When we arrived we headed staright to the Education Centre where staff at the zoo taught us all about life…

This week year 4 carried out an experiment to investigate which materials insulate sound the best. We lined shoe boxes with either cardboard, tin foil or cotton wool. Inside the box we placed bells.

Before carrying out the experiment most of the class predicted that the best…

Last Friday was European Day of Languages and Year 4 spent the day learning about all things Danish. 

We started the day by learning how to answer the register and thank our friends and teachers in Danish. To our surprise Miss Whitehead then introduced us to Danish pastry! 

As you can…

This week congratulations goes to Weronika and Caitlin for achieving learning log of the week. As you can see they created their own cities in unique and inspiring ways. Great work!