Year 3 trip to the Hull and East Riding Museum

By Mrs D O'LOUGHLIN30th March 2022

Our year 3 children took a journey back in time to the Stone Age today at the Hull and East Riding Museum. They learned about what life would have been like in that time, including how we know what we know about this time period. As historians, they used their skills to guess what certain artefacts might have been used for. They learned about the type of foods that would’ve been eaten, clothing and everyday life. They then journeyed forward through the Bronze and Iron Ages, learning about the changes that occurred and reasons for this.

One of the highlights of the trip was their first glimpse of the Wooly Mammoth!

Y4 Writing Music: Staves and Musical Notations

By Miss L STEWART24th March 2022

As Musicians, we in Year 4 have been getting to grips with writing our preferred compositions onto a stave using musical notations. Firstly, we learnt how to draw the Treble Clef which we were determined to get right!

We then recapped some prior learning of the crochets, minims and semibreves and the value that each of these notes represent.

We then recapped the purpose and utilisation of rests within musical notation.

Once we had familiarised ourselves with whereupon the stave the musical notations needed to be placed, we as Musicians then began writing our own individual ‘Ostinato’ compositions.

 

 

Junior Open Exhibition at Ferens Art Gallery

By Mrs H HEBDEN22nd March 2022

Earlier this year, Y3/4 submitted a few pieces of work to be considered for the Junior Open Exhibition within the Ferens Gallery in Hull.

 

We were delighted to learn though our pieces were on display for all to see and appreciate so we decided to take a mini-trip to see our work professionally displayed.

It was really exciting to visit the Gallery. We enjoyed looking at a range of Art work from children across the city and were blown away with the quality of it.

We enjoyed sharing our opinions as we walked around the other parts of the gallery, discussing how the Artists had made their sculpture, collage or edited their photography,

But by far, the best part of the afternoon was the smile on our faces when we found our own Art work!

 

Y3 JIGSAW – HEALTHY ME! CALORIES, FATS AND SUGARS

By Miss L STEWART21st March 2022

Our Y3 focus this term in our Healthy Me! unit of Jigsaw has allowed us to consider that the calories we get from the foods we eat provide us with the energy we need to work, grow and exercise. We also discussed the importance of exercise to stay healthy and understand that for our bodies to be in balance (healthy) we need to take in the right amount of energy and do the right amount of activity. In addition, we further discussed the benefit of exercise on our heart and lungs and recognise that the more we exercise that our heart and lungs work harder and become stronger.

FACT…Did you know that children should exercise for at least 1 hour a day? We investigated this fact and calculated that if we walk, cycle or travel on scooter to and from school and be active at both play, lunchtimes and after school that we already exceed this recommended time!

We then undertook an investigation to find out the amount of calories, fats and sugar content in various food items by taking notice of the Traffic Light labelling on packaging…

We then played the ‘How Much Sugar?’ game whereby the children had to match the identified sugar content in grammes to the correct food item before the answers were revealed…This activity evoked some great discussion and difference of opinions between our Year 3 children.

When the answers were revealed the children were quite surprised…

An energy drink…35g of sugar
A blueberry muffin…30g of sugar
A bowl of chocolate ice-cream…22g of sugar
A packet of sweets 20g of sugar
A flavoured yoghurt…17g of sugar
A chocolate bar…15g of sugar
A chocolate biscuit/cookie…14g of sugar
A bowl of chocolate cereal…11g of sugar
A plain biscuit/cookie…8g of sugar

As an extra activity, the children were provided with the actual physical representation of the amounts of sugar, which they had to weigh on the digital scales and match to the food items in the activity….

From this activity, some of our Y3 children have raised that we do not often think of the calories, fats or sugar content within the foods that we eat and that they are now considering taking more notice of the Traffic Light recordings on food labels and packaging.

 

 

 

Y4 JIGSAW – HEALTHY ME! The Effects of Smoking on Health

By Miss L STEWART21st March 2022

In Year 4, we have been discussing the effects of smoking upon the health of those who choose to smoke, as well as the effects it has on those around them.

A posed scenario led to a little role play in Mr Morgan’s class whereupon Ricky in the scanarios was seen smoking by his younger siblings who he made promise not to tell their Dad. The promise was a little to hard to keep and Dad was told in the best interest of Ricky.

Here are some of the children in Year 4’s opinions of smoking…

We then discussed the reasons as to why people choose to smoke and identified that it is often as a result of peer pressure and wanting to fit in.

We all agreed that smoking is a habit that comes with many risks to our health and that having a better understanding of the impact and effects it has can help us to make better, healthier choices and say NO to being pressured into doing something we do not want to do just to fit in!!!

 

Y4 JIGSAW – HEALTHY ME! Friendships and Group Dynamics

By Miss L STEWART21st March 2022

Our focus this term in our Healthy Me! unit of Jigsaw has so far enabled us to reflect on the friendships we have formed within the communities we belong to.  We discussed the fragility of friendships and agreed that to maintain a friendship we need to be tolerant, accepting, loyal, respectful, kind and forgiving. 

We then focused on Group Dynamics and how within groups there are often leaders and followers and that working together to be inclusive is a must.  Discussions then centred around a posed scenario about a P.E lesson whereby certain individuals took it upon themselves to take charge, one individual did not want to be part of the P.E lesson and so removed themselves from the situation and another had a valid contribution to make but was finding it too difficult to be heard or included.

The children then had to work collaboratively to identify the leaders, followers and by-standers within the posed scenarios group dynamic.

From this, we then compared our own group’s dynamics and found that we all took on differing roles where some of our peers became leaders, followers and bystanders. This led the children to conclude that they need to be more aware that everyone feels included and valued,  not only when working collaboratively as a group, but in all the learning activities we work upon within the learning environment.

 

Y4 Writing and Performing Music – Ostinato

By Miss L STEWART21st March 2022

In some of our recent lessons, Y4 have been getting to grips with writing and performing music in an Ostinato style. Not sure what an Ostinato is?…watch the video below and the children will explain…

 

So…an Ostinato is a pattern that is played that always stays the same (ie: repeats), which is played to accompany songs and was given its name by the Italians. Once we had learned the Theory of the Ostinato, we then joined some of the words we created in previous lesson from the notes A – G and practiced creating our own Ostinato pattern.

Here are a few of our compositions…

 

 

 

As you can hear, we utilised our prior learning of Pitch and demonstrated this whilst playing on the glockenspiels with confidence!

Sewing Club – Book Marks

By Ms Y HOPKIN17th March 2022

Sewing Club is back!  This term Year 4 have been designing and creating a bookmark.  The children were able to choose a blank bookmark, a whole range of colourful threads and over the weeks have created some very individual bookmarks. These sewing superstars have learned how to thread a needle, how to secure the thread to the binca, and how to sew a variety of stitches. Each bookmark is then finished off with a felt backing and a coordinating tassel. Here are some of their finished projects, they are super proud of their bookmarks and their well deserved achievement certificate.

Sublime Science

By Miss T LITHERLAND17th March 2022

To kick start science week, the whole school had a visit from Sublime Science.

All children throughout the school had the opportunity to participate in fun and interactive workshops hosted by a great scientist called Harry. He was amazing and carried out some brilliant experiments like putting a skewer through a balloon which didn’t pop!!!  He showed us how to defy gravity and swung a bucket of water around his head and it didn’t spill!

We all had such a great time and it made us want to continue learning about science! Some of us said that we would definitely be carrying out a science activity at home for our #ScienceSelfie competition!

 

 

Y4 Science Week – Parent and Pupil Investigation

By Mrs H HEBDEN16th March 2022

So Mr Moy wanted to know, which temperature of tea is the best for dunking biscuits? Today, we invited the parents and children of Year Four to carry out an investigation to help him find out!

We made our predictions based on our previous experiences.

We carried out a fair test and measured the temperature of the drinks.

We recorded our results in a variety of ways and analysed the data.

 

We drew conclusions as to why the coldest tea allowed us to make the greatest number of dunks! We were able to help Mr Moy and now he can happily dunk away each break time thanks to the Year Four Scientists.