Year 4

Children in Year 4 have been learning how to follow a recipe.  They have learnt the skills of measuring, creaming and rubbing in.

After listening to Beethoven’s fifth symphony and the James Bond theme tune, children in Year 4 explored musical motifs.  The children then used tuned instruments to play a musical motif of 6 notes. 

As part of our Online Safety learning, children in Year 4 have been thinking about how online messages can be hurtful.  The children have been exploring how they should respond to a hurtful message.  

The children had a fantastic time visiting Ellesmere Port Library - some children joined the library and others borrowed and returned books. 

After creating their own wax resist boards, children created abstract art.  The children used a range a scratched marks to add contrast and patterns.

Children in Year 4 have been using everyday items to explore the human digestive system. 

Children in Year 4 have been using the technique of 'onion' skinning to create their own mini animations.  

Children in Year 4 have been using place value counters to explore flexible partitioning of numbers to 10,000.  

Children in Year 4 have been recalling and revising Year 3 Place Value knowledge and skills before heading into Year 4 Maths.

Year 4 have been using illustrations from our new 'Pathways to Read' book to predict what type of text it could be.

Children were asked to discuss who the characters might be, where the story might be set and possible story plot ideas.  

A super speaking and listening…

Yesterday, the children in Year 4 had a visit from The Mayor, Cllr Paul Donavan. 

Children in Year 4 have been independently using websites to gain facts about stalactites and stalagmites.  The children will use these facts next week to write explanations and fact files in Literacy.