Year 4 News

Here are your challenge submissions so far today. Keep them coming and check back here later for more updates!  

We’re so sorry that we won’t be seeing you all on Tuesday morning and we know lots of you will be looking forward to seeing your friends so we would like to set you a challenge that you will be able to share on our website.  At our school, being healthy and active every day is really important. In fact, …

Mrs Parlett has created 3 instructional videos explaining how we use google classroom in school and how your child can access this from home: Accessing Google Classroom via computer: Accessing Google Classroom via mobile devices: Using Google Classroom: Mr Graham is always available for technical help via email too: b.graham@stcuthbertsprimary.com

Y4 had a wonderful time on World Book Day. We worked with the author Adam Bushnell to create our own poems based on an extract from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. We also wrote some spells to turn us into different animals and had to guess the animal it would turn us into. We shared our work with the class and in groups. …

Useful Websites we use in class: Times Table Test Times Table Rockstars Hit The Button The School Run Maths Whizz SPAG.com Pupil Page  

During our science lesson today, we were learning to use a thermometer accurately. We conducted an experiment. We used three tubs, water, chocolate, trays, thermometers and a stopwatch. We measured out 200ml of water into  each of the three tubs. We checked the temperatures of the water. The temperature of tub one was 50 degrees celsius, tub 2 was 21 …

Before half term, Y4 enjoyed making pizzas as part of their Design Technology lessons. They made the dough from scratch, rolled it out and shaped it and chose their own toppings. Everyone enjoyed getting very messy but the best part was eating the pizza! Thank you to everyone who supplied ingredients and to our parent helpers. re

As part of our Community topic in RE, we have been thinking about what makes a good community. We decided things like sharing, turn taking, team work and socialising were among the things that are important in any community. To follow up on this, we brought our toys and games to school to share with others. We had a fantastic …

This week in Art Club we have been looking at Valentines Day as a theme.  We are working on making Valentine’s garlands with our family photos to show how much we love and care for each other.

Y4 have been investigating triangles and quadrilaterals in their maths lessons recently. We were learning about the different types of triangles and their properties and made them in various ways. We used straws, sticks, geoboards and even completed some art work based on Sierpinski Gasket. We drew upside down equilateral triangles repeatedly to make a design. The finished designs were …

Y4 went to St. Bede’s school to take part in a science lesson. Their task was to measure the voltage created by adding different metals to citrus fruits.

Year 4 would just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.  We have enjoyed preparing for Christmas in Year 4.  Mrs Fitzpatrick, Mrs Eadsforth and Mrs Donnelly would like to thank everyone for their wonderful gifts and wish you all a Happy New Year!

Y4 have been getting the classroom ready for Christmas this week. We have put our Advent Wreath on display, decorated our Christmas tree, set up the crib and arranged some Christmas books for all to share. We are also taking turns to open a door on our Advent calendar and read out a prayer or suggestion of something we can …

We launched a competition during Anti Bullying Week.  The children had to design a poster to be displayed around school.  The poster had to include the slogan ‘Change Starts With Us’, what to do if they see or experience bullying and an anti bullying message.  The competition was judged by Mrs McGann who is our Anti Bullying Governor. Here are …

Year 4 visited Castle Eden Dene recently to explore habitats

Gail from skipping school came in as part of our active week this week. She worked with all classes and trained some of our KS2 children to be playground leaders. Our skills are absolutely amazing!

We have successfully achieved the second stage of the Rights Respecting Schools Award. We are now Silver: Rights Aware.