Children’s Mental Health Week – Y4

By Mrs H HEBDEN4th February 2021

Our home-learners and in-school students have really taken onboard the messages from mental health awareness week. We have enjoyed expressing ourselves and taking time to consider what makes us happy, especially during these unusual times.

Y4 had fun with the 1-minute-doodle-challenge, turning a squiggle into a picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They loved creating Origami dogs in various sizes and with different types of paper. Some pupils, such as Izzy, have gone on to learn more origami in their own time and so she is teaching us how to make a heart this afternoon! (Just in time for valentines day:) )

We thought about what makes us happy at play. We are a sporty lot! You’ll find us refining our rugby skills or playing football. Some of us just like to hang with our friends and play imaginative games.

 

At home and in school, we  linked our English work to Children’s mental health week and have been making entries in an emotions journal. We found the structure was really helpful and that the pupils were able to really drill down to their feelings and express themselves rather than just generally considering ‘How are you?’

PE with Alex from the Tigers Trust, gives us the chance to express ourselves and work with our classmates, physically and mentally, towards a common goal. And of course, the chance to HAVE FUN!

Y4 Working Scientifically

By Mrs H HEBDEN1st December 2020

After learning how to build complete circuits, we wanted to be able to turn them on and off. We examined where would find and use switches in everyday life before we went on to build and create our own switches out of everyday materials such as card, foil, paper clips and split pins.

During this practical task, our young electricians worked collaboratively to create effective switches. The children’s  reactions were brilliant, it was great to see them feeling proud of their achievements and being delighted with their functional switches.

Switched on!: Investigating different types of electrical switches and making our own. 

 

Year Four Scientists

By Mrs H HEBDEN19th November 2020

Electricity! A unit of work that has really hooked our interest! We loved being scientists this afternoon, working on a challenge, with little information given, to light a bulb and create a simple series circuit.  The excitement in the room was electric as one by one, each team managed to light up their bulb! We then explored the function of other components within a circuit and we can not wait for next weeks lesson to take this a step further 💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡💡

History in Year Four

By Mrs H HEBDEN19th November 2020

To help us gain a better understanding of the Ancient Egyptians, we have been looking at where on the timeline, this civilisation existed. We learned of other ancient civilisations that existed simultaneously to the Egyptians and today we were exploring the commonalities of them. We examined primary and secondary sources of evidence to discuss,  discover and deduce facts about the Ancient civilisations of Sumer, Indus Valley, Shang and Egypt.
This afternoon are classrooms were full of lively discussion as we listened proudly to our young historians making connections and drawing their own conclusions as to what made a civilisation.

 

 

 

 

 

Y4 Basket Ball

By Mrs H HEBDEN19th October 2020

Year Four have really enjoyed building up their dribbling and passing skills to enable them to play mini basketball games. The progress made within just a few lessons has been really impressive. We have enjoyed being outside and being back to what we love, the weather has been kind each Monday and we are looking really smart in our PE kits and new PE hoodies!

Year Four Pitch Challenge

By Mrs H HEBDEN14th October 2020

As Scientists, in Year Four, we have been learning about sound. We explored vibrations and how sound is created, how it travels in sound waves, how it the volume can be altered and how we might carry out sound proofing to absorb the sound waves. This week we were given the fiddly challenge of changing the pitch of an elastic band instrument. We could have done with a few extra sets of hands but we enjoyed exploring!

100% attendance awards

By Mrs H HEBDEN10th October 2020

Y4Heb were delighted to have received their badges this week for having had a hundred percent attendance last week. May this be the first of many! #y4heb #proud

 Y4HEB 100% Superstars! 

Marvellous Mathematicians

By Mrs H HEBDEN10th October 2020

Year Four have just completed their first unit in Maths, where we explored and deepened our understanding of place value and number. We loved learning about Roman Numerals and the numbers that lurk below zero- negative numbers!

Logan loves Maths and challenged himself to calculate his 8 times tables beyond 12, he could talk with confidence about the pattern. Great work Logan!

Olly quickly got to grips with the concept of negative numbers and began to explore subtraction and comparative statements. Super Maths Olly!

Sena made great use of the tools available in class, a place value chart, to extend her understanding of numbers. Fabulous Maths Sena!

The Egyptian Cinderella

By Mrs H HEBDEN8th October 2020

The year four pupils have been working hard to show case their story writing skills as we re-told the story of the Egyptian Cinderella from the Pharaoh’s perspective. We were really impressed with the creative content of the stories and the grammar that the children were to apply to this longer piece. Well done Year Four, an amazing start!

Romans invade Year Four

By Mrs H HEBDEN22nd January 2020

In year four we wanted to know how our lives changed from living as Iron Age Celts to being invaded by the Romans!

Using sources of evidence, we explored the attempted  invasions to discover which were /were not successful and why. We enjoyed reenacting the invasions in a class Celts V’s Romans battle!

Discussing sources of evidence to order events.

 

Teams label their evidence based upon what they know.

 

 

We worked together to order the events.