Year 4 News

Year 4 were transported back in time during a fantastic Ancient Greek Day full of hands-on learning and fun! The children explored the fascinating differences between Athens and Sparta, taking part in lively discussions about life in each city-state. They had the exciting opportunity to try on replica armour and shields before working together to practice the famous phalanx battle …

Year 4 walked down to Seaham beach today to look at the formation of the cliffs and features of the beach. We have been studying the topic of coasts as part of our Geography topic. We were quite lucky with the weather and found some caves and groynes as well as lots of different rocks and pebbles that had been …

Many congratulations to our Year 4 and Year 5 pupils who received the Sacrament of the Eucharist for the first time today. What a lovely morning we all had celebrating with you! Thank to to everyone in our school community who helped make today so special: Fr Marc and Deacon Peter; parishioners who helped prepare the church; families who came …

Some of Year 4 got the chance to hold the chicks today. We had to be very careful as some of them were getting very brave and trying to run away! They have really changed in such a short time and we could see their wings starting to develop.  

We had some special visitors came into class on Friday. They came to tell us all about their lifestyle. They showed us some artefacts including some instruments which they played for us. We were then given an opportunity to have a go ourselves. Some of us even got a chance to wear a turbin. It was so interesting to find …

Year 4 had a lovely surprise on Friday afternoon when Sophie from SSP arrived to give us the opportunity to take part in a silent disco. It wasn’t very silent in the hall as we were all singing loudly to our favourite tunes ! The only rule we had was we had to dance which we did and once again …

Year 4 had lots of fun working together as a team and taking part in lots of challenges in order to collect parts of a jigsaw. Once completed, the jigsaw revealed a code to open the safe. Thank you to Sophie from ESSP for running such an exciting session.

Birdwatch is an annual event which gives people the chance to count birds that visit our gardens. After our school assembly we were set a challenge of finding out how many different birds we could find in our school grounds. We got very excited to find crows, magpies, wood pigeons, blackbirds, seagulls and a pied – wag tail !

Year 4 took part in the festive Santa run. Some of the tasks included running around candy canes, dancing around magical trees and throwing snowballs into Santa’s sack. We had a lovely, fun afternoon.

It was Christmas party time again and Year 4 had a great time. They showed us some new dance moves and as always took part in all the party games with lots of enthusiasm!

Rachel came into school to help Year 4 create some Christmas crafts outdoors. We used different materials around us to make a giant class snowman. We the had to collect sticks for our reindeer’s antlers which we made out of mud! To finish our festive session we made a fire in the fire pit sang Christmas songs and made hot …

In our Geography lessons Year 1 have been looking at maps. We have looked especially at maps around our school area. Today we enlisted the help of Year 4 as Mrs Groark set us a Christmas challenge. On our maps there were 9 different stars around our school grounds. We had to locate the stars and at each point there …

November 2024

We always have fun when Sophie from ESSP comes in to dance with us. Today she came into Year 4 to show us how much fun we can have by copying ideas from others. We enjoyed looking at different dances and copying,”The Macarena” and a dance off with our friends. Thank you again Sophie for showing us how much fun …

Today a special visitor from Ancient Greece arrived. Adam the Ancient Greek set us lots of different activities. We found out about the life of a hoplite soldier and about the relationship between the Athenians and the Spartans. The Battle Formations and Tactics session was the highlight of the day, where the children got their very own spear and shield …

Year 4 had lots of fun in their colour run and helped raised lots of money for our school. Well done everyone and a big thank you to the Sports Partnership for organising another fun event.        

Tonight was the first gardening club for year 3 and 4. It was a lovely afternoon. We were in our prayer garden, weeding, gathering up leaves, moving mini-beasts we came across to somewhere safe and planted daffodil and tulip bulbs in the pots. We finished by giving the pots a water and tidying up. By spring, we will see how …

AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS We have some after school clubs on offer this half term. You can sign children up for these on our clubs page: Click Here

From Summer 2021, the Department for Education made Relationships and Health Education (Primary) and Relationships Sex Education and Health Education compulsory in all schools. Parents cannot withdraw their children from this aspect of education. The programme we use focuses on healthy relationships and keeping children safe in the modern world. It also covers a wide range of topics relating to …