Y4: Gallery
Date: 23rd Oct 2024 @ 8:42am
Year 4 have had a very busy half term - take a look at some of our Learning Walls.
Maths: Place Value / Addition & Subtraction / Times Tables
Science: Why are all animals different?
RE: What might a Hindu learn through celebrating Diwali?
PSHRE: What strengths, skills and interest do we have?
PATHS: Learning about our feelings and emotions
English: The Whale - Setting Narrative and Newspaper Report
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 6:46pm
Today, Reverend Chris came into school to lead an assembly - all about Harvest Festival.
We have also collected items as part of our Harvest Festival - these donations will be delivered to our local foodbank so that people in our community can benefit.
Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 2:37pm
Today, Year 4 met Ian from The Hummingbird Project.
Over the next few weeks the children will be working on a project - all about learning ways to feel happier.
The sessions will consist of:-
* Feeling happy
* Being kind and thoughtful
* Slowing down
* What makes you mentally strong
* Feeling good about the future
* Where to find help if you are feeling unhappy
The session finished with a mindfulness activity - remembering your happy place.
The challenge for the week is - think about the three favourite things that make you happy.
Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 4:49pm
Y4 enjoyed a full day at Valley Brass this week. This involved tuition from Mr Chadwick and members of his band. Members of our Brass Band and Y4 class then performed at the Town Hall. They joined Valley Brass to share several pieces of muisc with a large audience, including the Mayor and her Consort.
Date: 18th Jul 2024 @ 9:16am
Y4 enjoyed a full day at Valley Brass this week. This involved tuition from Mr Chadwick and members of his band. Some of the children performed with his band at the Town Hall in the evening.
Date: 18th Jun 2024 @ 10:12am
A fantastic time was had by all who attended our first 'Sleepover' since lockdown. The evening consisted of team games, a campfire toasting marshmallows and hot chocolate and a movie. The children particpated well in all the activities and particularly enjoyed the campfire song of 'Boomerang'. Thank you to all who came to help raise all important funds for our school.
Date: 24th May 2024 @ 10:07am
Year 4 had a brilliant time in Liverpool this week, developing their knowledge and understanding of both the River Mersey as an important geographical feature and of the Ancient Egyptians., They enjoyed a self-directed museum visit at Liverpool Museum, walked along the River Mersey and finished the day taking part in an Ancient Egyptians workshop at The World Museum - Geography and History experiences in one day!
Date: 8th Mar 2024 @ 4:56pm
Another fantastic 'Article of the Month' assembly delivered by our Rights Respecting Team. This month's article is 'Article 23 - A child with a disability has the right to live a full and decent life with dignity and, as far as possible, independence'. The ambassadors did an amazing job of educating our school and introducing this month's activities.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 1:36pm
Y4 really enjoyed their afternoon with Nick from Junior STEM this week. They used their Maths, Design and Computing skills to build a lego model that they could control using the I-pad.
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 2:28pm
Today our reading ambassadors met to discuss their ideas for World Book Day which we will be celebrating on Friday 8th March.
They created posters for the event and displayed them around the school.
Date: 2nd Feb 2024 @ 2:25pm
This week has been National Storytelling Week. Our reading ambassadors led storytelling sessions in Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1. In our assembly on Thursday we spoke about the skills needed to be a good storyteller. We looked at celebrity storytellers such as musicians, dancers, actors, singers and authors.
We are all storytellers!
Date: 31st Jan 2024 @ 1:17pm
VIKING GARY
Once again, Viking Gary visited our school and worked with our year 4 class. The children had the best time learning about old norse traditions and practicing how to form a sheild wall. Year 4 loved the whole day and I'm sure they will be telling our year 3 class just how much fun they will have next year!
National Compliments Day - whole school assembly
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 3:51pm
Wednesday 24th February was Natonal Compliments Day. Today we had an assembly to celebrate the process of complimenting and self complimenting. Some of our children shared their own compliments and we watched a video 'The Reflection in Me' about a girl who listens to what her reflection tells her about herself.
The main message was to value ourselves and that when we are kind to ourselves, we feel happier and brighter in general.
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 4:54pm
Today, the children have participated in an assembly all about World Religion Day.
They have listened to some Learning Clips about different religions across the world.
Then, we talked about the similarities in the religions - with love and care being a central theme to all religions.
The Christmas Story ... Knock Knock
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 12:18pm
Today, Reverend Chris came to re-tell The Christmas Story to the children.
He re-told the story in the form of 'Knock Knock' - and he acted out all the characters in the story. All the children found it entertaining and it certainly was a different way to re-tell the Christmas Story.
His assembly was finished with a prayer of reflection.
Date: 1st Dec 2023 @ 11:51am
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 3:27pm
Today, Years 1 to 6 have participated in Inter Faith Week Assembly.
Inter Faith Week occurs every November (for 8 days following Rememberance Sunday). The children have thought and reflected on:-
* Friendships amongst different faiths - what this means and how they could be a better friend.
* Social and Community Action Projects - the children watched a video about the creation of the Watford Peace Garden.
In conjuction with the Rights Respecting Team and Miss Evans, the children have been asked to think about:-
What could we do as a school to make to make our community a better place for people of all faiths and religions?
The children have been asked to send their ideas to Miss Evans and the RRS Team before Monday 11th December, 2023.
Y3 and Y4 Diversity Education Workshop
Date: 22nd Nov 2023 @ 12:19pm
This morning, year 3 and Y4 have participated in a Diveristy Workshop - organised by the charity Diversity Role Models.
The children have thought about :-
* What is diversity?
* What is bullying?
* A family is ...
* Different types of families
* What is identity?
* Our unique identity
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 3:11pm
Football Club
Year 4 and 3 football after school club was made even better this week by the addition of some extra coaches from year 6. The Y6 coaches were great role models and coach Laura and Miss Evans have spoken to me about how proud they are. Hopefully, the boys can help train the next footballing superstar!
Well done boys and keep it up!
Mr Leather
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 11:14am
Our Scholastic book fair raised £381.11 for school. We can now use this money to buy some new books for our school library. Our reading ambassadors asked their classes about the types of books that they would like. During our meeting today we shared ideas, searched the Scholastic website to find exciting, new books and completed an order form.
We look forward to reading the new books once they arrive.
Date: 6th Mar 2023 @ 4:02pm
WORLD BOOK DAY
The children in Year 4 had a great world book day! Their outfits were amazing and they produced some lovely work.
Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 2:24pm
Tom Palmer visited Lyme today.
Tom is an award winning author and has sold over half a million books. He met with Year 5 and 6 today to answer their questions and tell them all about how he became an author. Tom even did a book signing session and lots of children have started to read his books already.
Thank you Tom for inspiring us to read and write our own stories.
Date: 21st Feb 2023 @ 4:27pm
Today, Year 4 got on a coach and travelled to Liverpool.
During our morning session, the children were taught all about how the River Mersey was used by people and how it enabled Liverpool to grow into such a massive city. We discussed how goods were transported by sailing ships and eventually huge cargo ships, and also discussed what types of cargo used to come in and out of the city using the river. We found that all sorts of goods were brought into the city from exotic animals like parrots and monkeys to china plates, tea and wool.
After a quick 30 minutes for lunch, we marched across Liverpool to the World Museum. Here, we looked into one of our upcoming topics... The Egyptians. Our guide talked about how Egyptians mummified each other after they'd died. We even performed a mummification ceremony! (It wasn't for the faint-hearted!) As we were doing this, our guide explained about the importance of different Egyptian gods and Egyptian hierarchy within the process.
As a staff, we were all extremely proud of the behaviour of year 4 and the manner in which they conducted themselves around the museums and through Liverpool itself. The children had an excellent time and seemed to enjoy the gory details of mummification in particularly!
Date: 18th Jan 2023 @ 10:55am
In our reading ambassador meeting today we made plans for National Storytelling Week which will be held on the week beginning Monday 30th January. The children shared why stories and storytelling is important. They came up with ideas of events that we could do to promote a love of reading and storytelling. The ambassadors are planning to hold a whole school assembly, will be visiting classes to tell stories and they will even be telling stories on the playground at playtimes!
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 8:43am
Timestable Chatter Boxes
During year 4, the children must learn all of their timestables from the ones to the twelves. We are always thinking of creative ways to do this from board games, whole class games, bingo, songs, rhymes and now, we have decided to make timestable chatterboxes. The children followed the instructions that were given to them very carefully and created some lovely chatterboxes. After this, each child listed down the eight multiplication facts that they struggle with most and wrote them on. Now, all that was left was to play and practise!