YEAR 4 – BRINGING US TOGETHER

By Miss L STEWART13th March 2023

We in Year 4 are enjoying getting to grips with our new song for this term ‘Bringing Us Together’.  It is a catchy tune with lyrics that both celebrate and encourage everyone around the world coming together through a shared  joy and love of music.

As musicians, we have been revisiting and practicing the notes C, A and G on the recorder so that we can accompany and perform the chorus of the song.  Below is our first practice without the music…

Whilst we were quite pleased with our first performance, we all wanted to polish up on our musical talents before playing along with the music.

A great performance we are sure you will agree, however we aim to improve through practice over the next few weeks so please stay tuned!

Some of our peers were brave enough to do a solo performance of the chorus today too…

 

Brave and Encore Year 4…our love of music is certainly ‘Bringing Us Together’ through our song this term!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y3 YOGA WITH LIESEL

By Miss L STEWART7th March 2023

We in Year 4 are loving, and look forward to our weekly Yoga lessons with Liesel in P.E. From practising easier poses such as the ‘Table, Cat and the Downward Dog’ to the more complex moves of the ‘Warrior 3, Dancer and Camel’, we are now working towards making our movements more fluid so that each pose flows into another.

We have been having a little fun exploring Yoga with Music this week…something which we really enjoyed!

 

 

 

To end the session, Liesel taps the ‘Chau Gong’ so that we can concentrate on the soundwaves and ground ourselves at the end of a session.

 

Namaste Liesel!

Fieldwork – hessle

By Mrs K SMITH7th March 2023

This week, Year 3 have had their geography field trip to Hessle.

We were all very excited to see how the town of Hessle would be different to our visit to the village of Brantingham.

Hessle is close enough for us to be able to walk there from school so we went on our field trip together.

In Hessle we noticed that there were lots more buildings than in Brantingham and there were lots more people around the area.

Hessle has a different land use to Brantingham. The village had lots of agricultural land but the town has more commercial and industrial land.

We carried out lots of field work during our visit to the town of Hessle. We carried out a traffic survey ensuring we used the same guidlines as we had in Brantingham such making sure we counted traffic for exactly 10 minutes. We also walked around the area identifying several features such as places of worship, post offices, shops, pubs and parks. Hessle had lots more of all of these features than Brantingham had.

We are looking forward to comparing our findings between a town and a village in our next geography lesson.

Fieldwork – Brantingham

By Mrs K SMITH2nd March 2023

This week Year 3 visited the local village of Brantingham to carry out some fieldwork as part of our geography lesson.

We walked through the village looking closely at all the different physical and Human features. We discovered lots of physical features such as the fields, the village green, trees and bushes. We discussed the types of land use in the area and talked about all the fields we could see with cattle such as sheep. We concluded that this land was agricultural as we could see the animals living on the land. As we looked at human features of the village such as the village hall and the cottages we discussed how this land was also residential.

On our walk around Brantingham, we completed a traffic survey. We recorded all the traffic that passed us in a 10 minute period. Lots of us thought we would see lots of cars but we didn’t. We passed a sign that said no HGV’s down a small country lane so we decided that we would not see a lorry, we were right.

Over the 10 minutes that we recorded we only saw a small number of cars, some of us saw a push bike and some of us saw a tractor. The roads in the village were very quiet. Whilst we carried out our traffic survey we could hear the sheep in the fields and the birds in the trees, it was very peaceful.

We finished our fieldwork off with creating a sketch map of the village so we can compare Brantingham with a town.

We cannot wait to go on our next fieldwork trip to be able to do a land, features and traffic comparison of different areas.

Year 3 – Science Fiction Stories

By Miss T LITHERLAND2nd March 2023

Today in Year 3, to start our new unit of work, we were given a tray of objects and pictures. Using this information we had to work with our groups to make predictions about what our new unit of work could be.

As we use our detective skills in history so much, this was a challenge that we were positive we could solve!

We discovered that it was about a robot named Bibo, who had a 10,000 year warranty and was built a long time ago. We found out that he was once popular and liked to be sociable. He sold ice creams to lots of people but for some reason nobody came to him anymore to buy any. We wanted to find out more so we watched the film clip!

Year 3 are carrying out ‘Fair Test Investigations’

By Miss T LITHERLAND2nd March 2023

In Year 3 today, we were investigating – ‘Can people with longer femurs jump further?’

We all made a prediction and about half the class thought that it would affect the distance and the other half thought that it would not.

We discussed how we could possibly test this out and we decided that we would need to measure our own femur then compare this to other people in the class. We said that we would then get these people to carry out two jumps and we would record the distance to work out the theory.

We write down the method then looked at how we would make this test a fair one – we would all need to do the same type of jump, we would need to jump from the same starting point and we would need to measure the distance in the same way.

We carried put the tests and recorded our results in a table.

We concluded that you did not have to have a longer femur to jump further.

YEAR 4 JIGSAW – HEALTHY ME!

By Miss L STEWART28th February 2023

Year 4 have been exploring the concept of ‘Friendship’ and recognising how their own friendships have formed, and also changed, over time due to the passage of life.

Through discussion, we recognised that not all our friendships are the same in that we may value some friendships more dearly than others but agreed that this is acceptable.  From this, we mapped our own ‘Friendships’ on a ‘Concentric Circles’ mapping tool where we identified and named our ‘Best-Friends’ in the inner circle before moving outwards to map those who we consider to be ‘Close Friends’, ‘Occasional Friends’ then ‘Acquaintances’ in the outer circle.  We then explored the statement ‘Friendship is Fragile’ from which we all agreed that for friendships to last the test of time, we need to value and respect all of those we consider to be our friends now as well as  those we will go on to meet in the future.

Group Dynamics…

The children have also explored the concept of ‘Group Dynamics’ and identified that people often take on different roles in different situations such as leaders, followers and bystanders. We assimilated this concept to when we work as a group in our learning environment and highlighted the importance of including everyone to ensure that everyone’s opinions are valued.

Using our Jigsaw approach, we explored some posed scenarios to identify the roles individual’s were taking on and found that sometimes people feel pressured to act a certain way when finding themselves in a controversial situation. This enabled us to consider the term ‘Peer Pressure’ and concluded that when influenced or encouraged by our friends to do something we know is right in a positive way that this is healthy; however, when we are encouraged to do something that we may know is wrong but go ahead and do it just to ‘fit-in’ or ‘be accepted’ that this is not a healthy choice.

Great discussions Year 4!

YEAR 3 JIGSAW HEALTHY ME!

By Miss L STEWART26th February 2023

In this Jigsaw Piece, the children in Years 3 are exploring the concept of making healthier choices…

In Year 3 we began by discussing the importance of exercise and the benificial effects it has on our bodies, our hearts and lungs.  Before participating in star jumps, burpees, boxing moves, dancing and a little jogging on the spot we felt and measured our resting heart rate then compared it with our elevated heart rate after we had exerted ourselves! We found that whilst exercising our heart beats faster to pump the blood around our bodies and that our lungs work harder to take in more oxygen.  In addition we identified that exercising, whilst tiring, actually makes us feel good!

We then explored the suggested statement ‘Children need to be active for at least 1 hour a day’ and recorded/calculated the typical average timings of the regular activities we all participate in throughout the school day every day:

Walk to school –  10 minutes
Walk up and down the stairs at school  throughout the day – 5 minutes in total
Playtime – 15 minutes
Lunchtime – 1 hour
Walking home from school – 10 minutes

Our findings found that we certainly excel the suggested 1 hour of activity from the activities we undertake in a typical school day but as this is only a suggestion we can go on to do more if we so wish.

We then went on to explore the concept of calories, fats and sugars within the food that we eat and how these can affect our health. Firstly, we identified how we can make healthier choices by swapping out certain foods with something considered to be healthier:

Chocolate – Fruit
Icecream – Plain Yogurt
Crisps – Rice Cake
Muffin – Plain Popcorn

We explored a range of food packaging to identify the calorific values (energy) fats and sugars of some food types and noticed that the traffic light coding on packages makes these easier to identify…

We then played the ‘How Much Sugar Game?’ and tried to match a specified amount of sugar with one of the food items presented…it was not easy!

 

Once the amounts were revealed we were amazed to find that there are…

35g of sugar in an energy drink
22g of sugar in a bowl of chocolate icecream
17g of sugar in a flavoured yoghurt
8g of sugar in a plain biscuit

We all agreed that whilst we find lots of food items rather yummy, that we can try to make healthier choices and keep some of those foods which have lots of sugar, fats and calories in as a sometimes treat. Great work Year 3!

 

Year 4 PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE US – WHAT MAKES A SAINT?

By Miss L STEWART21st February 2023

Year 4 this term have been rather busy exploring and investigating the questions ‘What is a Saint?’ and  ‘How does a person become a Saint?’  In order to gain the answers to these significant questions we watched videoclips and listened to podcasts of children from other schools giving their own responses and from this deduced that a Saint is someone who is considered to be holy, kind, courageous and a special person who cared for and helped others in their lifetime. However, the children became rather confused to find that a person can only become a Saint after they have passed away therefore never knowing that they had been honored with such a title which our children thought rather unfair.

We then utilised our geographical skills and explored maps of our local and surrounding areas to identify locations which where named after significant Saints.

We identified streets (St Nicholas Avenue; St George’s Road; St Hilda Street), medical centres (St Andrew’s Group Practice), shopping centres and retail areas (St Stephen’s Shopping Centre and St Andrew’s Quay), churches (St Nicholas Church, All Saints Church and St Mark’s Church) and primary and secondary schools/Colleges (St Andrew’s Primary, St Vincent’s Primary, St Thomas More and St Mary’s College). From this we deduced that the councils who govern Hull and the surrounding areas must have recognised the importance of these individuals in order to name significant buildings and roads in our city after them.

The children then explored the lives of significant Saints  – Saint Andrew, Saint Francis and Saint Teresa (Mother Teresa) and considered whether their ‘altruistic cause’ made them worthy of becoming a Saint.

We found that while Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland, that he is also the Patron Saint of Fisherman, Fishmongers and Rope Makers. This further enabled the children to make links with Hull’s fishing heritage and understand why Saint Andrew is an important figure for our city. In addition, it was identified that Saint Andrew was a Christian and a disciple of Jesus whose altruistic cause was to continue teaching people about Christianity after Jesus’ death even though doing so led to his own crucifixion.

Saint Francis was a man who in his earlier life was quite selfish and cared only for himself until he heard the voice of God, which led to him giving his wealth away to the poor to become a holy man who lived a simplistic lifestyle. His altruistic cause was to do God’s work and care for others rather than himself. He is known as the Patron Saint of Animals and the Environment due to his ability to talk with nature.

The story of Saint Teresa leaving her family and homeland behind to commit her life to do God’s work in order help those who were less fortunate in Calcutta, India posed the question of whether we felt able to ever leave our own families never to see them again. We felt that Saint Teresa’s altruistic cause to do this was something that we would find hard to do and unanimously agreed that Saint Teresa was a very special person indeed.

In conclusion, we felt that each of these three magnificent individuals were truly worthy of becoming a Saint and deservedly so for their altruism and dedication to serve others in their lifetimes.

We then went on to explore some ‘inspirational people’ who either hailed from Hull or came to Hull and made it their home, while considering whether what they did during their lives for the city of Hull made them either a ‘Hero or a Saint‘:

Bilocca (Fishing Safety Campaigner)
Jean Bishop – The Bee Lady (Charitable Fundraiser)
Clive Sullivan (Sporting Legend)
Sir Leo Schultz (WWII Air Raid Shelter Campaigner)
Phillip Larkin (Poet Laureate)
Amy Johnson (Solo Aviator)
William Wilberforce (Slavery Abolishment Campaigner)

After hearing the significant stories about these ‘inspirational people’ the children agreed that what they did in their lifetime had a considerable positive impact on our city and for this they were all Heroes: however, now that they have sadly passed away that they are all worthy of being recognised as Saints for their own altruistic causes to put the needs of others before themselves.

Well done Year 4 for your super attitude to learning this term!

Year 3 Library Time

By Miss L STEWART21st February 2023

Year 3 have had a wonderful time in our school’s fantastic Library today exploring the amazing genres of books it has to offer.  We ensured that we read the Blurb of our chosen book first to see if it captured our interest, rather than judging the book by its cover, before finding a comfortable spot to settle down and lose ourselves for a little while. We knew to treat our books with respect and place them back on the appropriate shelf once we had finished before choosing yet another book. Our quiet, hushed tone also allowed for everyone to enjoy their quality reading time too…we hope to visit again soon!