Class of 2028 (Y4)

Today, Father John visited Year 4 to talk about the Sacrament of the Sick, to support our learning in R.E.. Father John showed us the oil he uses and talked through what happens when he gives the Sacrament of the Sick to someone. This is a sacrament of healing and brings spiritual healing and…

As part of our Safer Internet Day learning, today Year 4 were learning about positive and negative uses of A.I. and they suggested some tips for using A.I. safely. All children understood the importance of not sharing personal details online and telling a trusted adult if anything online,…

Year 4 enjoyed their visit from the author, Sean Perkins, today. He helped us to see classroom objects as characters with their own personalities and the children developed their own ideas from this to create characters for pencils, rulers, glue sticks and even the whiteboard!

Today, we started to make our buzz wire games. We used clay for the base then children enjoyed creating their buzz wire design to challenge their friends. Next lesson, we will add the electrical circuits. 

Today, Year 4 learnt to do a country dance . This involved circling left and right, star turns, 'dosey doe' and a promenade walk around the room. It was great to see everyone having fun and working together to complete their sequence of moves in time with the music. Well done, Year 4!

This half term, Year 4 are enjoying the book 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' by Philip Pullman. Today, we read the chapter where Lila struggles to climb the mountain to visit Razvani, the fire fiend. The children created their own freeze frame to show what happened to Lila during the journey. Ask…

Building on last week's introduction to simple circuits in our electricity topic, this week, children in Year 4 investigated how to make a switch for a circuit using a few simple materials. Our electricity learning links to this term's DT project as the children are going to design and make their…

Today, Year 4 started their electricity topic by exploring how to use wires and batteries to make a bulb light up. They worked cooperatively to problem-solve and created simple circuits that made their lamps light up. Great work, Year 4!

This week, children in Year 4 showed amazing cooperation skills when they worked in groups of four to create sequences showing matched and mirrored balances, rolls and different ways of travelling. They listened well to each other's ideas and everyone joined in with their group to produce some…

We had a great Christmas party afternoon today, playing party games with Year 3 in the hall and then circle time games in our classroom. It was lovely to see the children helping and encouraging each other in the games. We wish all our families a very happy Christmas, from Year 4.

Year 4 have been learning to play a melody called 'March of the Golden Guards' on glockenspiels. They have also used given notes to improvise their own melodies with a backing track. The result was very musical - albeit noisy! Well done, Year 4!

Today, Year 4 enjoyed a visit to Lancaster City Museum to support their learning about the Romans. They investigated the purpose of different artefacts from Romans times and learnt about the presence of the Romans in Lancaster for 400 years.