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Year 4 - Hickory Class
Westfield Music Roadshow
Thank you PTA!!
Thank you so much to the PTA for allowing us to have some great fun on the inflatables! Even I had a go on the slide! Thank you!
Egyptian projects
We have been absolutely blown away by the Year 4’s Egyptian projects this year! They were all incredible and you could tell each child had put in lots of effort and creativity, well done! Thank you to all the parents that helped make their projects as always, we appreciate your support.
Island projects
For English this week, the children participated in an ‘Island project’. This involved them imagining they had been deserted on an island. For day 1, they had to wrote a set of instructions on how to survive the night by finding food and making a shelter. On day 2, the children had to write a diary entry describing what their island was like. Using their tech skills, the children, on day 3, recorded their diary entries to send to a rescue boat. They did such a wonderful job on this project that they were allowed to draw their island maps.
SCARF workshop
We had a wonderful afternoon with Jane from scarf! We learned all about being ourselves and how playing with friends is much better than being on our own. The children loved seeing Howard the giraffe and he even managed to take a nibble from Luke’s finger!
Wimbledon
Well done to our Wimbledon finalists Matilda and Max! They both played wonderfully and the class loved watching you.
Leonardo Plane Glider Workshop
The children were extremely lucky to be part of a live stream workshop from Leonardo! They were set a task of building 3 plane gliders out of materials and had to design, construct and test their gliders. The children loved learning all about how planes actually fly and how they could adapt their designs to make their glider go further. We took them to the test and had some gliders go very far indeed! Some even flew 6 metres!
Sports Day 2023!
Sports Day was a huge success! The weather was perfect, and the children did us proud. Their behaviour was impeccable, and they expressed fantastic sportsmanship in cheering on their peers and celebrating their achievements. Well done KS2! You were all brilliant.
NHS careers workshop
KS2 were invited to attend an online workshop to learn about careers within the NHS. We learnt that there are over 350 different jobs within the NHS alone! The children enjoyed hearing both a paediatric doctor and an infection prevention and control nurse talk about what their jobs involved. We had the opportunity to ask them a range of questions about their roles and discovered all the positive and negative aspects of their working day. It was incredibly interesting and many children left the webinar feeling inspired.
Computing- Making PowerPoints
For our computing this week, the children have been making PowerPoints. They have learned how to insert photos and different ways to present them. The PowerPoints were all about themselves so they could share it with their new teacher.
DT- Finished products!
We finally finished our pavilion structures including adding cladding to our designs! We all agreed they did very well as it was extremely tricky and fiddly!
DT- building a structure
Our DT this term is to build a pavilion so the children began looking at different structures today and thought about how to build a sturdy building. They experimented by using pencils and blue tack! I can't wait to see their finished products at the end of the week.
Music- Egyptians!
To end our lovely week, we had our music lesson and sang all about the Egyptians! The children enjoyed it so much that we ended up singing it whilst walking (like an Egyptian) around the classroom!
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Class assembly
It was that time again for Hickory to host the class assembly this week and our christian value was wisdom.
English- Dictation
This week’s lesson was different as the children were using their memory to write sentences! The passages they needed to write were dictated by the teacher and it included their year 3 and 4 spellings. The children were also told they needed to correctly punctuate their sentences.
London Trip 2023!
What an absolutely superb day Year 4 had on our London trip! The children were amazed by all the mummies and Egyptian artefacts. They were in awe of the size of some of the statues and I am also immensely proud of how incredibly behaved they all were both in the museum and on the coach! Thank you for such a wonderful day!
Coronation Celebrations!
Today, we celebrated the upcoming coronation with many fun activities and a visit from a very special guest. We enjoyed an ice cream in the afternoon, kindly provided by the PTA. It was a super day! God save the King!
Running with obstacles
Our PE this term is different forms of running. For this week, we were learning the skill of running over obstacles including cones, hurdles and hoops. We had a mini race at the end and the children were wonderful with encouraging their team members.
Author visit
We had a fantastic author visit with some wonderful activities to get the children thinking creatively. The children were very enthusiastic about reading her book and even got given a book mark!
Science- Circuits
This week, the children have been learning how electricity flows through a pathway called a circuit. To help their understanding, they were tasked with a challenge to get the light bulb in their circuit to light. They loved constructing the circuits and figuring out why things would or wouldn’t work. We even managed to get the buzzers out to create a wonderful, yet very annoying, noise!
Fabrics of Nature art topic
This week the children have been inspired by the rainforest and have been creating mood boards for their fabric of nature art topic.
Science topic of electricity
This week, the children began their topic of electricity and were exploring what items needed electricity to work. They also learned what electricity is and how it flows.
I hope you all have a wonderful, well deserved break! I can't wait to see you all after our Easter holidays. No homework has been sent home but please can you continue to practise your timestables.
Thank you for all your hard work this term! See you soon!
Mrs Chambers
Rock Bottom!
I am simply bursting with pride after watching the children perform their play to the school and parents this week! They were ALL absolutely incredible and I can't believe how hard they have worked. Thank you to everyone for supporting to learn lines and providing costumes. Well done Year 4!
Fizz Pop science workshop
This week, year 4 enjoyed a workshop by Permafrost Paul from Fizzpop science. They learned all about different chemicals and their acidity, watched lids pop off and even made their own slime! We’d like to say a massive thank you to the PTA for donating money for Year 3&4 to have this workshop.
Whole school Science fair
Hickory class really enjoyed attending the Science fair and seeing all the amazing entries and experiments! A massive well done to Hickory’s Lily, Alfie and Luke who entered the fair. Luke and Alfie took 2nd and 3rd place for the Year 4 category!
Investigating sound
Sound can travel through different materials. For our investigation, we looked at a variety of materials and how well they blocked our sound. We decided to design a pair of ear muffs and we had to decide which material would be best for this.
DT- to make a product based on a given design brief.
On the final day of DT, the children independently made and baked biscuits. They also designed packaging for their final biscuits and had them bagged and labelled. They did amazing with this project and we hope the biscuits tasted as delicious as they looked!
Class assembly- truthfulness
It was our turn again to host the class assembly. This time, our value was truthfulness and the children retold the story of the boy who cried wolf. The moral of the story was: No one believes a liar, even if they are telling the truth.
DT- making a prototype
For the seconds part of our DT, we made prototype biscuits by adding an additional ingredient to our basic biscuit recipe from yesterday. The choices were chocolate chips, both white and dark, sultanas, coconut, sprinkles and lemon. The children then tasted each other’s and chose a final design biscuit.
DT- following a recipe.
To start off our DT this week, we had to learn how to follow a recipe. As a class, we made basic biscuits, baked them and ate them! We also researched what biscuits already existed and of course, had to taste these too! This will help us when we make our prototype biscuits tomorrow.
World Book Day 2023
What a wonderful day we all had! The children looked spectacular in their costumes and spent the day completing book activities​​​​​​.
Author Visit
We had the wonderful author, Tom Mclaughlin, join us at school this week. He read the children some of his stories and discussed how he became an author. An incredible part of the visit was when he showed us how he creates his character by going through a tutorial on his iPad. It was simply brilliant and had us all wishing we could do the same!
India topic
Year 4 have started their geography topic of India and today we were locating India and all its cities.
Languages fair
Maths- Money
Our first day back after half term and the children were keen to learn! In maths, we explored money, adding and subtracting different amounts and even making amounts with different coins. They showed a really good understanding!
DT project- book sleeves
For our DT this term, the children have been researching different fastenings and how these can be used on different products. They then designed a book sleeve using a criteria. After this, the children learned how to sew and attach a button as a fastening. All their book sleeves looked exactly like their designs and they showed really great sewing skills.
Science Investigation
This week, the children have been observing how the states of matter can be reversible. To do this, we applied heat to chocolate, so it became a liquid. We then added some cornflakes to the mix and made some cakes! We observed that, when the chocolate began to melt, it turned back into a solid again. The children loved making the cakes and investigating the process.
Wessex Water Visitor
We were very lucky to have Wessex Water worker, Tim, come and do a workshop with the children about the water cycle. They learned all about how the water cycle works, how water is treated to make it clean and what not to put down the toilet! The children had a go at ‘flushing’ a fake toilet and discovered what would happen to certain items. Who knew that flushable wipes aren’t flushable! They learned a new word of the day too, disintegrated, and even observed toilet paper do just that.
Stone Age Trip- Museum of Somerset
What an amazing time we had on our trip to Taunton! The children had the opportunity to discover pre historical artefacts, make some Stone Age necklaces and paint some cave artwork. They also loved their trail around the museum exploring the artefacts fro all over Somerset. We had lots of members of the public comment on how well behaved the children were.
Limericks
This week has been all about exploring and performing different types of poetry. Today, the children learned how to write a limerick following the aabba pattern. This is one we wrote as a class:
There was a young pig from a farm,
Who had an incredibly long arm.
He wiggled his nose
and struck a big pose,
Which caused lots of people some harm!
Stone age cave paintings
In history, the children have been learning about the Stone Age and this week, we explored how Neanderthals would have communicated. The children loved seeing all the paintings on the caves and then had a go at creating some of their own! They looked amazing and we even did some hand-printing to put on our display.
Snow!
Hickory class simply loved watching the snow fall on Wednesday and my goodness, weren’t there some enormous snowflakes! The snow really helped inspire the children’s magic box poems for their English work.
Estimating and weighing objects
For maths this week, the children have been learning to understand the weight of objects and converting between grams and kilograms. This also gave them an opportunity to read scales and practice their dividing and multiplying by 1000!
Rock Bottom!
The Year 4 play has been announced! After some utterly fantastic auditioning last week, Mis Johnstone and I had the tough task of choosing the cast. However, the list has been decided and it is time to get this show on the road! We began our first read-through of the script today and it is safe to say we are all incredibly excited about this upcoming performance. More information on the performance will come out soon!
Maths data handling
Using our data we had collected in the week, the children learned how to navigate Excel including how to present their data. This linked to our computing topic for this term also! The children learned how to add their data onto a spreadsheet and then created a bar chart too. They did really well coping with all the new technological terms!
Collective worship assembly
It was our turn to host the collective worship assembly this week and our value was dignity. The children read aloud the story of Daniel and the Lion’s Den and then performed a poem.
Maths data handling
For maths this week we have been learning how to collect data and then how to present our data. The children were told to gather information and then present it in their books as a tally and frequency table. Some of the results were interesting, especially favourite teacher!
Happy New Year everybody!
I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas break and spent time with your families and friends. I have missed you all so much and I can't wait to see you all back in school tomorrow! We have a very exciting term ahead of us!
See you soon,
Mrs Chambers
Panto 2022- Dick Whittington
DT project: Christmas story books
The children worked very hard to get their story books finished today and you can see how proud they were! They all looked amazing, well done Hickory!
Reading books to reception
Some children from Hickory took a trip down to reception and shared their newly made DT books with them. The children really enjoyed spinning the pictures and lifting the flaps in the stories. The Year 4’s did really well reading them aloud!
DT project: Christmas story books
Today we began designing and making our DT project, our Christmas books. The children had to create a Christmas story of their own and then include moving mechanisms in their books. They had spinners, opening elements and even springs.
Santa visit
Hickory class were extremely excited to see Santa appear at their classroom door! He gave the children lots of presents including some skipping ropes that count your skips! Thank you so much to Santa for our amazing presents and we promise to be really good!
Christmas dinner 2022
Aboriginal artwork
Using their fingers as tools, the children created some aboriginal artwork. They followed the method of pointillism to create some beautiful work!
Egg experiment results
After leaving our eggs for a week, the results are in and they truly were shocking. The egg that caused the most decay was both cola eggs which stained the egg! The least decay was both the water and the milk which barely did anything at all to the egg. The vinegar egg had turned the egg to rubber and it then popped leaking egg everywhere!
Coding on scratch
This week for computing, the children have been learning to code on scratch. They learned how to delete, move and speed up any actions that their sprite did. They then created some scenes using their own sprite.
Teeth decay science experiment
At the beginning of the week, the children set up a science experiment investigating which drinks decay our teeth the most. We used eggs as a substitute for teeth and used 7 different liquids: Water, milk, sugar coke, Diet Coke, orange juice, an energy drink and, just for fun, some vinegar! Well monitor the investigation over a week and we’ll post our results!
Intra-School cross country
Year 4 did a wonderful job in the cross country at school today. The girls raced first and then the boys after. They all did a fantastic job of representing their house Cook, Sharman, Livingstone and Fiennes.
Glastonbury Abbey Trip
Year 4 went on their trip to Glastonbury Abbey today and they all had an amazing time! We started the day going on a tour around the abbey and then we had a Tudor life workshop. In the workshop, the children tried on clothes, played Tudor games and learned some Tudor dances. After lunch, the children made Tudor toothpaste which included salt, cloves and other herbs. Some children tasted it and so did Mrs Chambers. It didn’t taste great at all! The children’s behaviour was impeccable and represented Preston primary extremely well!
More dancing
Dancing
Hockey
Year 4 are very lucky as for the next 3 weeks they’ll be having hockey a master class each Thursday! They have already learned some great skills and hoped fully will learn more in the coming weeks.
Tudor day 2022
Wow! What a superb day the children (and staff) had! We started the day drawing portraits of Tudor monarchs and then we went onto modelling clay into Tudor roses. These will be painted later next week. After break, the children feasted on a banquet served by Henry VIII ! They devoured pork pies, Tudor pottage (veggie stew) with crusty cob bread, jam tarts and ginger biscuits for dessert, all served with delicious wine (cranberry juice)! From there, we learned how to dance in Tudor court and even played some archery, although we did have to let the king win! In the afternoon, the children made Tudor soap with lavender and olive oil. What a FANTASTIC day we had and thank you to everyone for getting the children dressed up as they looked brilliant!
The digestive system
For Science this week, we recreated the digestive system by using mashed up food, a pair of tights and water. We squashed a banana, bread, and water together, poured it though the tights like the oesophagus and let it travel to the intestines. From here we squeezed the tights, like the intestine absorbs water. We then cut the end of the tights and watched it plop out! The children loved it and it helped further their understanding of the digestive system.
Volcano eruptions!
It was finally the time to erupt our volcanoes and after weeks of building and painting, the children were ready to watch them explode! We added bicarbonate of soda, red food colouring and vinegar to create the magma erupting. As you can see from the children's faces, they absolutely loved it! Each group had an amazing volcano and erupted differently which was incredible to see. What a super way to end our Geography topic for this term!
Estimating and measuring time
To help support the children's understanding of time, they were set a series of tasks. For these, they were asked to estimate how long it would take them to complete the task and then actually time themselves doing it. Some of the tasks were push ups, sit ups, reading a page of a book or even writing their name 10 times.
Hello Yellow 2022!
Volcanoes continued!
After allowing our volcanoes to dry, the children have been painting them this week. They look spectacular and the children (and myself) are VERY excited to erupt them next week!
Fencing workshop!
The children had a wonderful time with Ash from premier sports. He taught the children how to fence and they had great fun learning all the new skills you’d need to win.
Measuring lengths
In maths this week, we have been learning to convert between centimetres and metres. Alongside this, we were estimating and measuring different lengths around the classroom.
Volcanoes!
Linking with our geography, we have finally started creating our volcanoes! The children really enjoyed creating the structure and using papier-mâché to stick it all together. Next week, we will be painting them and I can tell they are going to look amazing!
Kandinsky maths work
Linking with our maths work this week, the children have been exploring colour and shape through the artist Kandinsky. They used their knowledge of polygons and perpendicular lines to create their masterpieces.
Oil pastel animals
For art week, we linked our artwork with our science topic ‘Living things and their habitats’. The children researched some animals and used oil pastels to recreate them. They looked stunning and the whole class put in such an incredible effort.
Multiplication practice!
In June, the Year 4’s will be taking a timestable test in which they have 25 questions with 6 seconds to answer each. To support the children in this we have been finding different ways to practice, including lots of quick fire games!
Art week!
To kick off art week, we had a visiting artist come and speak to the children. She set them a task based on fossils and the children drew some ammonites.
European Day of Languages
We had some lovely visitors come to our classroom to read some stories in different languages. The language ambassadors did a wonderful job talking to all the children.
Music- finding rhythm
The children have been learning to find rhythm and pitch. This week we performed a song all about pizza! They put on their best Italian and accents and did really well! It’s safe to say, we were all craving pizza after this!
Pizza!
Classifying trees based on their leaves
For our science topic, living things and habitats, we decided to classify trees based on their leaves. The children found it really interesting to see how many types of trees there were and drew some excellent bar charts to display the data we has collected.
E-safety for computing
The children made some very creative posters on how to stay safe when online. We had some really productive discussions about what to do and how we can keep ourselves safe.
Collective worship
It was Hickory’s turn to host the collective worship assembly this week! Our Christian value was community and the children retold they parable of the Good Samaritan. They did wonderful reading and acting too! The children even sang a song to the rest of KS2.
Performing play scripts
For English this week, we have been learning about the features of play-script ready to write our own on Thursday. To help the children understand, they performed some play scripts to the class. They were all very brave and performed wonderfully!
Two digit by two digit multiplication
Hickory class had the tricky task of learning how to multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers today. They all listened really carefully on how to work through each step and showed really amazing progress!
Classifying animals
This week, in science, we have been looking at classifying animals. We discussed how to class animals into the correct group, what made an animal a mammal or a reptile and then the children became animals having to group themselves into the correct class. I think there are some great animal impressions here!
Counting in multiples of 6,7,9,25 and 100
This week in maths, Hickory class have been learning how to sequence numbers that count up in different multiples. They found some of them tricky to begin with but used lots perseverance and were eventually counting in 25’s from any number!
A big welcome back Year 4!
I hope you've all had a wonderful summer break! We have a very exciting year ahead and I am so looking forward to getting to know all of you! Can't wait to see you!
Mrs Chambers
