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Year 4’s Autumn DT project : designing and making a puppet inspired by ‘The Truth Pixie’, using running stitch, back stitch and appliqué 🧵 🪡 

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Year 4’s Autumn DT project : designing and making a puppet inspired by ‘The Truth Pixie’, using running stitch, back stitch and appliqué 🧵 🪡 

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L.I. To use summarising skills

Year 4 have been making posters in English, giving advice to other students to help them when they are having a bad day. These messages have been inspired by our work reading The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig, seeing how the Truth Pixie’s advice helped the character Aada feel better when she was stressed about moving house.

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16.12.2024 - LI: To explore the relation of distance and volume 

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16.12.2024 - LI: To explore the relation of distance and volume 

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Children measured the decibel measurement of symbols being hit at different distances away.

A decibel is how sound is measured. Like cm for length - Theia

To think that the further away we get from the symbols then the sound will get quieter - Lewis

Jackson is the only person that can hit the symbols because if I did it, it would be different and that would not be fair - Eden

That is called a fair test - Serena

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13.12.24 - To identify structure and texture in music 

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13.12.24 - To identify structure and texture in music 

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Year 4 appraised a piece of body percussion that sounded like rainfall. They then considered how they could structure a similar, arch-shaped piece of music with their body parts.

Structure is the parts that make up the piece of music - Jackson

The texture makes the music rough or soft. How we hear the layers. - Jaejun

It’s called an arch shaped piece of music because it stars off slow, light and quiet, then it reaches a high loud bit in the middle and then it’s quiet again at the end - Aya

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Jaslin: Because I was influenced by the examples, I put a crown on Jesus’ head to show he is the King of Kings. The dove represents the Holy Spirit.

Omar: Drawing the picture was easy for me. I am going to use lots of colours to make it bright.

Reuben: I sketched the Trinity and also a rainbow because this picture makes me happy.

Safeeyah: I selected stain glass art because my piece is not only about the Trinity but also various emotions. I am colouring it by multiple colours that represent multiple emotions.

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Understanding Christianity Day - What is the Trinity?

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Understanding Christianity Day - What is the Trinity?

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“I think the cross is God the Son because Jesus died on the cross” - Ethan

“I think the dove shows the Holy Spirit because doves can fly everywhere like the Holy Spirit” - Isabell

In which way was Jesus an ordinary person?

“In the flesh and he had no power but most importantly people trusted him” - Theia

In which way was Jesus ‘God on Earth’?

“Jesus has a human body for God to spread his message” - Raman

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Debating to compare the wives of Henry VIII

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Debating to compare the wives of Henry VIII

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Restoring or school meadow with The Wildlife Trust 🌷🌾🌹

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Restoring or school meadow with The Wildlife Trust 🌷🌾🌹

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Some of Year 4 loved raking our school meadow to help Olivia from The Wildlife a trust get it ready for its next bloom.

“Putting the grass into the copse makes a secondary habitat” - Olivia

“A secondary habitat is where a second habitat is made to attract more things to live here” - Stan

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More lovely feedback of Year 4's Christmas Carol Concert!

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More lovely feedback of Year 4's Christmas Carol Concert!

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It is very clear that the production was enjoyed by adults that came to watch and that the children should be very proud of themselves!

Thank you for your continued support.

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Practising joins, collaging and revising the seasons to create Christmas themed crafts!🎅🎄

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Practising joins, collaging and revising the seasons to create Christmas themed crafts!🎅🎄

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YEAR 4 CHRISTMAS CONCERT - DECK THE HALLS!!!! 🤶🎅🎄

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YEAR 4 CHRISTMAS CONCERT - DECK THE HALLS!!!! 🤶🎅🎄

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The video recording of DECK THE HALLS will be available to purchase by download link.

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Thank you for your support of Year 4's Christmas Carol Concert!

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Thank you for your support of Year 4's Christmas Carol Concert!

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Some lovely comments from the adults that came to watch and support Year 4 in their Christmas carol Concert!

We are so happy that the concert was enjoyed by all :)

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27.11.24 SM6 To find rewards that motivate me

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27.11.24 SM6 To find rewards that motivate me

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SM6 enjoyed talking about rewards and motivation. For a better understanding of the word 'motivate', as a class, we used the synonym 'persuade'. We looked at what motivates us and made a list of the rewards our class receives.

We looked at different scenarios in groups to see what consequences our actions could have. We then created freeze frames to show the most important parts of the scenarios and discussed if the actions in the scenario were rewarding or not, and the importance of thinking about our actions.

"My favourite reward in our class is a 'dip in the box' which we get when we read lots of times per week, or we have done really good work. I like this reward because we get toys!" Monty

"My favourite reward is the Good Egg which we get during Shine Worship. A Good Egg is a special reward because there is only one chosen child in the whole school to receive it, and I like that because it is really special!" Amelia

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SM5 have been planning a quiz they can create in Scratch. Today, they chose a Sprite and a backdrop. Then they used event, sensing and conditioning blocks to create a quiz. If the user typed in the correct answer to the question, the Sprite would say something, change colour or grow and if the answer was wrong, the Sprite would complete an alternative action. Some children duplicated their code for multiple questions.

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To explain why Muslims make spiritual journeys

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To explain why Muslims make spiritual journeys

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Miss Zaib is visiting Makkah next month so Year 4 were lucky enough to ask her some questions about her pilgrimage and why she is doing it!

Can you eat and drink or do you have to fast like in Ramadan ? - Eden

Is it a safe journey? - John

Do you go with anybody? - Tommy

How do you think you’ll feel when you’re there? - Isaiah

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18/11/2024 - Developing dribbling skills in PE

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18/11/2024 - Developing dribbling skills in PE

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When you're dribbling in football, your feet need to keep contact with the ball and it only needs to be kicked a little btit away from you - Lilly-May

We play team games in our football PE lessons because I think it teaches us to work together like if you were playing a game of football - Aha

When you dribble, you kick with the inside of your foot - Jackson

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A fantastic visit from Severn Trent Water to consolidate our learning about The Water Cycle!

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A fantastic visit from Severn Trent Water to consolidate our learning about The Water Cycle!

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We have the same amount of water now as we did in the dinosaur times because we can’t make new water - Jackson

All people in the UK use an average of 150 litres of water a day - Theia

This family are water wasters because they have used 400litres over the 600litres that they should only use in a day - Darcey

Using the water butt to clean the car helps save water because it uses rain water instead of tap water - Isaiah

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LI: To use complex tools to shape materials

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LI: To use complex tools to shape materials

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Why do some people make hard journeys for spiritual reasons?

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Why do some people make hard journeys for spiritual reasons?

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They do it to feel the pain that their ancestors felt or to trace their footsteps - Dhiarn

Christians make hard journeys for spiritual reasons because if they have an illness they are washed in holy water and then get blessed - Isabell

Christians make hard journeys because they want to get healed - Ethan

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Developing our sense of chronology (when events occurred and in what order) 

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Developing our sense of chronology (when events occurred and in what order) 

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Using twisting, bending and looping skills to make an intricate sculpture out of wire

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Using twisting, bending and looping skills to make an intricate sculpture out of wire

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I’m going to use my twisting method to join the pieces. That’s where you twist two pieces over and over again to connect them - Charlie

Found the loop hard because the wire is stiff so it was difficult to join it - Lakshmi

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Lewis and Austin - Zakat is linked to the five pillars of Islam. It means that Muslim people have to give their money to poor people.

Jesse - Zakat is not that different to my worldview because it doesn’t matter what religion you are, you can still give to charities and help those in need.

Dhiarn - I see Zakat as a massive aeroplane flying around the world, never stopping helping people because people will never stop giving so they can give people food and medical supplies.

Theia - Zakat is different to my worldview because I believe that we don’t just have to help people by giving money, we can give food and our time to help too whereas in Islam you have to give money.

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L.I. To develop comprehension skills with poetry

Year 4 have been enjoying a selection of poems about snakes this week. We practised our comprehension skills in a team poetry quiz, which was great fun!

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21.10.24 L.I - To find area by counting squares

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21.10.24 L.I - To find area by counting squares

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We began our area unit today, exploring rectilinear shapes using post it notes.

“A rectilinear shape is a shape where all the sides meet at a right angle.” Daniel (SM6)

We learnt that the “area is a the inside of a closed 2D shape measured by squares.” Royce (SM6)

In our learning, we discovered that the area of a shape could be calculated using smaller squares to fit inside. Circles, were not useful when calculating ads as gaps would be left between the circles.

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"Estimating in maths helps us get a taste of what the answer might be without taking a long time"

"It is useful if you don't know the answer to a question to estimate because your good guess might be close to the answer"

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Sculptures inspired by Sokari Douglas Camp

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Sculptures inspired by Sokari Douglas Camp

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Today, we have been making sculptures inspired by the artist Somali Douglas Camp. He uses recycled materials to create artwork that imitates shadows and within the shadows there are words of affirmations or positive phrases.

Children have made 3D letters, using their knowledge of joins. We will join each letter to eventually make a whole sculpture that can be hung up and create a shadow.

I should have folded instead on the inside because it’s very thin so can’t stand up very well on it’s own - Marta

There’s more structure to the inside if I do the zigzag which means it’s stronger - Serena

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Children discussed how they could conduct an experiment investigating how temperature affects The Water Cycle using just: water, a plastic bag and a marker pen.

They came up with a method and predicted what would happen next.

Year 4 look forward to carrying out their experiment next week and concluding if our predictions were correct or not.

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8.10.24. SM6. Syncopated rhythms in samba

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8.10.24. SM6. Syncopated rhythms in samba

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We investigated how to dry fabric quickly. We discussed the conditions needed and how the children have dried things quickly in the past, linking it to real life such as drying swimming costumes in the machine that spins your costumes really fast to the need to use a hair dryer as a source of heat to quickly dry a top. We then completed a fair test of three cloths which were soaked equally in 300ml of water and left to dry for the same length of time. The variable we changed, was the location. It was decided that the radiator, cupboard and near a window were the best places. It then came to demonstrating how much each cloth had dried. We used a wet paper towel and pressed down on each cloth for 5 seconds. The children clearly explained how the amount of water that evaporated increased and decreased with each cloth.

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Are food choices always for spiritual or religious reasons?

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Are food choices always for spiritual or religious reasons?

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“I know that Sikh’s don’t eat beef because cows are seen as sacred in India but because my family now lives in England and beef is eaten by lots of people, my family say it’s optional” - Dhiarn

“Being a vegetarian is optional in my house but if I choose to eat meat then I need to eat it in a separate room to the religious picture my mum has hanging up” - Jesse

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Children had workshops in their classes to revise the ‘PANTS’ rule and learn more about how to stay/keep others safe. 

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“He said he had butterflies in his stomach and this meant he felt nervous” - Theia

“The boy could use the pants rule if someone touches him by telling his parents that he feels unsafe that someone is touching his privates” - Milen

“The girl would have felt a bit anxious and frustrated when someone touched her on the bum because her body belongs to her” - Charlie

“Teachers are good people to tell if something happens in school because they can spend time with you straight away” - Levi

“A safe secret would be like a birthday present” - Ethan

“Our body would tell us if a secret was unsafe because we would get our early warning signs” - Dhiarn

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Year 4 and Year 5 children have enjoyed having workshops from Loudmouth educational theatre company today. Loudmouth deliver PSHE based sessions to children about feeling and staying safe.

Children learnt the ‘PANTS’ rule today to help them stay safe:

P - privates are private 🚫

A - always remember your body belongs to you👤

N - no means no ❌

T - talk about secrets that upset you 🤫

S - speak up and someone can help 🗣

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SM6 Creating sculptures from recycled materials

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SM6 Creating sculptures from recycled materials

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During our Art topic 'Sculpture and 3D: Mega Materials', we have been learning about what sculptures are and the various ways to make them. We learned about different artists and their methods in sculpting, focusing on Al Anastui as our main artist this week. SM6 really enjoyed the project and found out that glueing the various objects together isn't always the solution. We worked even harder finding solutions for our materials to stay together and succeeded by using more than tool!

Inspired by this great artist, we used our recycled materials to create sculptures of various sizes and designs. Our learning intention was to join a variety of materials to make a sculpture.

"I made a house for my toy animals. I used boxes and plastic bottles to make my 3D model, and used PVA glue and tape to hold it together." Susannah

"I made a turtle because I really like them. I was thinking about creating a sea creature sculpture because we have been learning about them in our English lessons. I used boxes, plastic materials and wooden sticks to create my model. I joined them with tape and PVA glue." Georgina

"I made a butterfly from the pear carton. I cut each form out and tapes them together to create a 3D butterfly. Because the wings didn't stay put with tape, I also used a stapler." Jaslin

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4/10/2024 - To know how my attitudes and actions make a difference

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4/10/2024 - To know how my attitudes and actions make a difference

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Children had some really mature conversations about how the way that they act and think can positively or negatively impact someone else.

The children also worked in groups to identify which aspect of teamwork is the most important to them. They worked so well in their groups that every sing child earnt a housepoint!

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Y4 revised their nouns, adjectives and verbs. We discussed the different types of nouns and looked at the impact of powerful verbs and adjectives.

"The words soft is an adjective as it describes a noun. For example - the soft blanket." Simi

"The word bed is a noun because its a thing. For example - The boy sat on his nice, soft bed." Jacob

"The word drop is a verb as dropping something is an action. For example - I like to drop toys in the box." Juliet

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LI: To recognise nouns, verbs and adjectives

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LI: To recognise nouns, verbs and adjectives

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Year 4 revised identifying nouns, adjectives and verbs. We discussed how nouns can be divided into proper nouns (names of people or places), concrete nouns (common nouns that can be picked up/touched like rulers, books or tables) and abstract nouns (dreams, hopes and wishes). Darcy and Harveen in SM4 said it’s important to know these word classes to identify different parts of sentences.

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16.09.2024 To use comprehension skills to understand a poem.

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16.09.2024 To use comprehension skills to understand a poem.

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In our Big English lesson we explored metaphors in poetry. After reading each stanza, we used the riddle based clues to decipher which animal was being described. We discovered that a 'Great grey belly porker' was a hippo, a 'stripy armor tiger' was a bumble bee and 'fish chasing waiters' were penguins.

"A metaphor is something being described as something else." By Simi SM6

Near the end of the session we used our drama and presentation skills to perform the stanzas using actions. We projected our voices and accentuated our actions for the benefit of the audience.

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For our lesson today, SM6 enjoyed exploring finding more or less than a number using a variety of ways. We worked on when and why we might need to exchange in order to get the correct answer.

"I found out that to get 10 less than 203, I must exchange the hundreds. So I exchanged 1 hundred into 10 tens, and then I was able to find 10 less than 203. My answer is now 193." Broge

"I found that using the place value chart was easier for me to understand when exchanging to find 100 more than 1971 because I can actually see it happening! But I don't always use this method. I could do it mentally if I don't need to exchange." Daya

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Year 4 have been partitioning thousands. Partitioning is a useful way of breaking numbers up so they are easier to work with.

If you flexibly partition, you do not just partition the thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. For example, you could partition 72 into 7 tens and 2 ones, but if you flexibly partition you could partition 72 into 5 tens and 22 ones.

"Partitioning a number and writing it in a number sentence is called expanded form" - Lewis

"You can write a number sentence any way round when partitioning because addition is commutative" - Charlie

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Exploring how our world view impacts the choices that we make

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Exploring how our world view impacts the choices that we make

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"People choose to do hard things in like to get rewards or give to charity and help people" - Jackson

"People do hard things to gain confidence in themselves" - Marta

"Some people have to do hard things in their religion to respect God" Serena

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10/9/2024 - To identify the features of a recount.

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10/9/2024 - To identify the features of a recount.

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Today, in English we have been identifying the features of a recount. We had a checklist of the key features and used a variety of colours to highlight the elements of a recount. Time was spent recapping examples of time conjunctions is and how we can identify past tense vocabulary. The children did so well. The presentation of their books is fantastic too!

“ A recount is doing something and then writing what happened” by Luca

“The features of a recount are first or third person, specific people, concluding, time conjunctions, past tense, extra details.” By Joey

“Examples of a past tense in our WAGOLL are watched, bothered and wondered.” Juliet

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Identifying actions that will affect our online identity 

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Identifying actions that will affect our online identity 

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“Online identity is how people see you online”

“If you use unkind words online then people will be able to see that forever”

“You should never share personal information online because someone might screenshot it”