The children in Year 4 have spent this morning focusing on remembering all those that put their lives at risk during difficult times of war and conflict to protect their country. As a class we promised that we would always remember them.

Year 4’s learning this week:

English:

Year 4 have been immersing themselves into the storybook Leaf this week.

We began by comparing a polar bear to lots of different woodland animals and exploring the different ways in which the polar bear was the outsider of the different species.

We then continued by studying the front cover of Leaf and explored the different aspects that we thought were important before making predictions about what the story was going to be about.

After reading the story together, Year 4 then wrote a setting description inspired by one of the pictures in the book of the polar bear floating alone on a block of ice under the night sky.

Maths: Year 4 have been using all of their knowledge of Place Value to practise their addition and subtraction skills. Year 4 have been examining partitioning as well as column addition and subtraction.

RE and Worship: Year 4 have continued exploring the story of David and Goliath this week and focused on linking the story with the real world today. Year 4 also considered the deeper meaning behind the story; that God will protect us and always be on our side to overcome greater obstacles in life.

To share a word from the coming Gospel together each week, please find a link for the Wednesday Word here:

http://www.wednesdayword.org/

PE: Year 4 have been using their team work skills to take part in Invasion Games. We focused this week on watching professional handball players and studying the techniques as well as the attitudes they used to be successful.

Spanish: Year 4 have been learning the translations for new vegetables during their Spanish lessons, we continued with; green beans, green chili peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms and cucumber. We practised our reading, writing, listening and speaking skills using this content.

Topic: On Thursday, Year 4 had their long awaited Ancient Egyptian Day! We had a fantastic day and all children put in the effort with their costumes, thank you so much for the support from home!

Year 4 spent the first part of the morning studying hieroglyphs to create their own Egyptian cartouche as well as creating their own Ancient Egyptian death mask, all things they could put in their own tomb.

The class then spent the latter part of the morning exploring Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses together to create an information poster to share with their class.

In the afternoon, Year 4 finally put their theoretical knowledge of mummification into practice by mummifying a tomato! Through this practical experiment, Year 4 will be able to see the process of preserving an object, a similar process to what was used in Ancient Egypt when mummifying a body in preparation for the afterlife.

Year 4 then finished off the afternoon by trying different foods that were popular in various parts of the Ancient Egyptian period such as; flat breads dipped in honey, dates, figs and grapes.

On a separate note, Year 4 were also lucky enough to be visited by people from the new museum that is still under development in Blackpool, nearby to the Blackpool Tower Circus. This new museum will be all about the history of Blackpool and Our Lady’s have been involved with its development for several years now.

Year 4’s workshop today was focused around the history of Blackpool’s circus in particular. We looked at the history of our world-famous circus including the animals that were once part of the show as well as the different acts such as acrobats and famous clowns like August and September and Charlie.

Year 4 then had a go at designing their own Circus advertisement posters before creating their very own clown act in which they had to consider what their clown and its sidekick looked like, what the act consisted of, what props would be needed and what the speech would be.