Year 4 spent their time in PSHE this afternoon thinking about our earth and most importantly the dangers that it faces in our current times. Year 4 thought about all of the different ways we can live more sustainably to protect our earth from climate change and other challenges our environment faces.

Year 4 all thought of small ways in which they can try and help the planet throughout their everyday lives. We all then wrote down our favourite and most realistic ideas as promises on a private slip of paper to show how serious we are about being proactive in trying to make a change for the environment. Some of the ideas we came up with to contribute to saving our planet were:

Growing our own fruit and vegetables.
Walking and using public transport more to save fuel like petrol and diesel.
Turning lights off when we do not need them.
Reusing resources such as shopping bags, water bottles and metal drinking straws.
Taking shorter showers to save water.
There are more ideas on living more sustainably at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvcxtrd/articles/z2c6m39

Year 4’s learning this week:

English: This week, Year 4 have been working hard during their comprehension work, particularly focusing on their inference skills. We explored together the idea that often pieces of text or books can give us information about a character without actually telling us through explicit statements, therefore we can infer key information about what a character is feeling and motivations for their actions.

Year 4 also spent time learning about expanded noun phrases and how they can use such phrases to increase the quantity of their writing and make it more exciting. We used lots of different photographs of various scenes such as a haunted house, a flowery summer garden and a starry sky to try and inspire inventive expanded noun phrases to describe the scene.

Maths: Year 4 have been investigating number this week, particularly descending past zero and into the minus’. We spent time consolidating our understanding that as you descend down a number line and into negative numbers, the numbers continue to get smaller and smaller. We also practised using our addition and subtraction skills using negative numbers.

RE and Worship: Year 4 explored the story of David and Goliath this week and focused on listening to and understanding the story before recalling the key events of the Old Testament story in chronological order.

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

http://www.wednesdayword.org/

Science: Year 4 have been exploring food chains this week! Firstly, the class discovered that a food chain is a chain of organisms that rely on each other for food. We explored the key vocabulary of a food chain such as; producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, predators and prey. After this, we focused on creating some of our own food chains ensuring that they were realistic food chains and each stage was labelled correctly.

PE: Year 4 have been using their team work skills to take part in Invasion Games. We focused this week on using our new attacking and defending skills to play mixed games of handball.

Spanish: Year 4 have been learning the translations for different vegetables during their Spanish lessons, we began with ; carrots, onion, spinach, aubergine and potatoes. We practised our reading, writing, listening and speaking skills using this content and are ready to extend our knowledge further with more vegetables next week!

Notices:

Please make sure you are reading at home regularly and recording this in reading records.

Please make sure you are practising times tables on TT Rock stars regularly.

Upcoming Events:

On Thursday 10th November, Year 4 are having their Ancient Egyptian day! Please come dressed inspired by an aspect of Ancient Egyptian society.
If you do not want your child to take part in the food tasting part of our Ancient Egyptian day, please contact the class email: year4@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk or the school office.

Congratulations to our award winners this week!

Golden Award - Hallie

Maths Award - Olivia

Writing Award - Corben

A big thank you from Miss Whitehead and Mrs Dunford!