Year 4

English Role Play

Year 4 had a fun creative morning today. They loved playing the witch and Jub. We also used macaroni to add inverted commas into our speech that we had acted out.

NRG workshop

Year 4 have learnt lots today about saving energy and money with Dr Watts and Dr Sparks.

English drama activity

Year 4 had a fun morning creating speech and acting it out. We loved being the villainous witch and sweet, little Jub. We used macaroni to add inverted commas to our speech.

NRG workshop

Year 4 learnt lots about saving energy and money. A massive thank you to Dr. Watts and Dr. Sparks.

Children in Need 2024

Children in Need – maths

Year 4 spent this morning exploring Children in Need themed problems and discussing possible answers.

Remembrance Day

Never judge a book by its cover 👏

In PSHE we discussed how we should not make assumptions about people by how they look. We must not be judgemental.

Timetables in RE

In RE we looked at the difference between a Christian’s daily timetable and our daily timetables. We discovered some similarities and some differences.

Remembrance Day

We did our one minute silence. After, we used our sketching skills to create some Remembrance Day artwork.

Some superb still life drawings 🎨👩‍🎨👨🏻‍🎨

Diwali Celebrations

Year 4 had such a great morning at our Diwali workshop. We wore some traditional Hindu clothing, learned some traditional dance, and even got to paint and create our own diya lanterns. 

Diwali Workshop

Diwali lanterns

We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.

A day in the life of a Roman soldier 🛡️

Deva Roman Experience

Year 4 had “the best day ever” in Chester. We experienced life as a Roman soldier and learnt more about the Roman invasion in Britannia.

Y4 String telephones

As part of their sound topic, Y4 have been investigating which mediums sound travels through. We did this by experimenting with string telephones. We had so much fun talking to our friends on our telephones but only some of them passed the message through!

What’s in the mystery box?

We found some items in our box to help us with predicting what our new class text is about.

Estimating on a number line to 10,000

Rounding to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.

What a great first attempt at a twisted narrative! 👏✏️

Year 4 Everton in the Community

A great PE session focused on our football skills. We love working with Everton in the Community to improve our skills, teamwork and resilience.

Year 4 Temple trip

Year 4 had a very exciting morning visiting a local temple. We asked lots of questions related to our Hinduism unit.

Setting Descriptions 🌟

Hinduism … What is Moksha?

we learned about reincarniation and how Muslims believe if you have good Moksha you will be reborn, if you don’t you will come back as an animal.

PSHE… our learning charters

What is a colour wheel? 🎨

We had so much fun painting our colour wheels and understanding how different colours are made. We discussed primary and secondary colours.

Spanish 🇪🇸 Descriptions

Danny Butler Event

We had the best day doing our sponsored event with Danny Butler. We couldn’t believe his bike skills! Wow!

Ukulele

We loved our morning learning the C and F chord.

Comparing Giorgio Morandi with modern day life artists 👨🏻‍🎨 🎨

I made my work soooo much better 🌟 ✍️

I used fronted adverbials, conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and personification. ⭐️🥳

What happens in chapter 5 with Mr Gum?

Teamwork makes the dream work 💫

Year 4 Still Life

Year 4 had a wonderful afternoon exploring traditional and contemporary still life artwork. They produced gestural drawings for a piece of artwork by Giorgi Morandi.

How did Rome begin?

How to develop accuracy?

Year 4 Ukulele

A wonderful morning learning the ukulele. We even had some amazing solo performances!

Year 4 Computing

On Thursday afternoon children continued to create programs using repeat loops. This program consisted of using repeat and forever loops to allow a pattern to be created using the pen tool on Scratch.

Ukulele Time

Year 4- Repetition Loops Scratch

Year 4 continued to look at how we can use repeat loops to benefit code. They focused on being able to use a repeat loops to get two separate characters to move in different ways, one moving when the mouse is moving and the other to move by itself and change direction when hitting a wall.

Black History Month ‘24

Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).

Year 4 History Enquiry

Year 4 generated questions and predicted events around Roman artefacts.

Historical Enquiry – The Romans 🏺🏛️

Cheque Presentation

A massive thank you to all parents and children who donated money to Alder Hey. The children on the school council were very lucky to be invited down to Alder Hey for a cheque presentation.
The money raised is going to help brighten the lives of children and their families, all over the country, who require the help of Alder Hey.

4KM had a great day at the beach looking at coastal processes and playing in the sand🏝⛱!!!

To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

Well one to our stars of the week in year 3 and 4⭐️!!!

Spanish Day 🇪🇸

Happy Spanish day🇪🇸!!!

Well done to our stars of the week!!!

Sports day!

Super morning with our LKS2 sports day! We had a great day for it and we all tried our best with every activity.

A great morning for sports day!

Singing Assembly!

I love starting off our Wednesdays with our singing assembly. It puts a smile on all our faces and gets us ready for our work.

Year 4 enjoyed test testing ingredients for our Ramen recipe.

Fantastic Family Picnic

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

Year 3 and 4 had great morning during their rugby skills training!

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4KM created some amazing posters for refugee week!!

Girls’ rugby

Year 3 and 4 girls had a super experience with an introduction into rugby. They had a chance of practising kicking, tackling and their footwork.

Our Mythical Creature Clay Sculptures…

4KM had a great afternoon exploring and creating sculptures using different media🎨

4KM had a great afternoon discussing what it means to be loved and creating their own collage about a person special to them❤️

Check out our sketches ✍️

Buzz Wire Games

What is a sculpture?

Year 4

Children have built on their knowledge of coding in Scratch. They have created a program today using repeat loops, controlling a character with a mouse as well as including a Score variable.

4KM had a great PHSE lesson coming up with different ways to cope with various scenarios.

Well done to our year 3 and 4 stars of the week⭐️

4KM had a great morning working with the Hope university students learning about light and sound??!!

Year 4 had a great day at the Deva Roman experience in Chester!! They even walked around as Roman soldiers!!

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The Smithdown Romans!

What a great day we had in Chester at the Deva Experience! We marched the streets of Chester and learned lots of interesting facts about the Roman Empire.

Buzz Buzz

We’ve had a great afternoon making circuits with a light and a buzzer to help us when making our buzz wire game. We also got to have a go at a buzz wire game!

More circus skills fun this afternoon??‍♀️?!!!

What fabulous writers!

We have been working towards writing a Kenning Poem and today all of our hard work paid off.

World book day 2024???!!!

Year 4 had so much fun during their circus skills morning??‍♀️?!!!

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World Book Day 2024

What an amazing day in 4LA.

Year 4 have been working hard as illustrators this world book day??!!!

Happy world book day 2024???!!!

4KM had a great morning learning how to tell the time!!!⏰

Superstars in Year 3 and 4! Stars of the week for some amazing work and attitude.

Year 4 had so much fun at their campfire toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate??!!!

We love Wednesdays! It’s time for ?

Which colours compliment each other?

How has tech changed through time?

Where do we put our money? Peter from MyBnk came to tell us…

Year 4 had a great afternoon learning how to manage their money??

Year 4 Pixel Mosaics

This afternoon Year 4 have been converting a mosaic into a pixel-style image. Children had to work out how they could convert the different sections into a 14 x 14 grid to ensure their design stayed symmetrical, children designed it onto a piece of paper ready to create a digital version next week.

4KM had an amazing morning learning a Chinese dance and carrying the Chinese dragon???!!!

Year 4 Pixel Art

This afternoon Year 4 have continued to build on their understand of how Pixels are used. Children used a website to recreate an image in pixel form. Children created it on paper first and then used excel to start to recreate their image.

Year 4KM’s amazing stars of the week??!!!

Silver Dojo Award – 200 dojos to these SUPERSTARS in 4LA

Stars of the Week in 4LA

Year 3 and 4 had an amazing time watching a Christmas performance! We all had a good laugh and got involved.

Year 4 had some much fun doing their Santa dash??

Santa Dash 2023 ??????‍♀️????‍♂️

This Friday, 8th December 2023, we will be having our very own Santa Dash! A chance to squeeze in an extra fitness session whilst having some festive fun ??‍♀️????‍♂️?????

Watch this space! ?

Year 4 had a great geography lesson moving crackers like tectonic plates!!

Year 4 had an amazing geography lesson creating their own structures of the earth’s layers, and how they link to earthquakes!?

Year 4 have had an amazing children in need?!!

What an amazing biography!

How do you solve calculations with regrouping?

Happy Diwali

Year 4 celebrations for Diwali. We love our Diwali lanterns!

Let’s put our mapping skills into practice ?

Remembrance Day 2023

Remembrance Day – ‘We will remember them’

What a day! Year 4 really enjoyed learning about the Hindu culture.

4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC???

4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC progressing their teamwork skills??? #smithdownextra

4LA exploring conductors & insulators

4LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci

4KM exploring conductors & insulators this week

4KM exploring conductors & insulators this week @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci

4LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits

4LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits #smithdownsci

4KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits

4KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4

4LA ~ Sorting mains and battery powered appliances today

4LA ~ Sorting mains and battery powered appliances today, then working scientifically to test our predictions about positions of components in a circuit @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci

Great afternoon with 4KM back to doing what we love the most – investigating!

Great afternoon with 4KM back to doing what we love the most – investigating!! This time, circuits. They took up the challenge of making the light bulb light ? #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4

Kicking our electricity topic off in year 4

Kicking our electricity topic off in @SmithdownPrimY4 by thinking about what electrical appliances we have at home #smithdownsci

4KM had a great music lesson this morning?

4KM had a great music lesson this morning? the children also learnt how to play a new note? @ResonateHub #smithdownmusic

4KM had an amazing art lesson creating their own mood boards…

4KM had an amazing art lesson creating their own mood boards using different colours for positive and negative emotions. The children also discovered how they can portray a mood in still life drawings? #smithdownart

4KM had a great PE lesson…

4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra

4KM had a great history lesson this afternoon learning all about the Victorian classrooms…

4KM had a great history lesson this afternoon learning all about the Victorian classrooms and comparing them to modern day classrooms. The children finished off the lesson with some role play of learning in a Victorian classrooom!! #smithdownhist

4KM had a great art lesson this afternoon?

4KM had a great art lesson this afternoon? the children started off by exploring the texture of their shoes and then explored textures in still life art work? #smithdownart

4KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets…

4KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets, the children were even able to learn a new note?? #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub

4KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English?

4KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English? #smithdownenglish

Acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️

4KM created their own posters and acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️ #smithdownenglish

Using the attendance percentages of the week?

4KM celebrated attendance week by creating their own bar graphs using the attendance percentages of the week? #smithdownmath

Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork…

Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork and how different strategies can help a team win ⭐️ @EITC #smithdownextra

Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️

Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️ keep up the hard work girls!! #smithdownextra

Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!!

Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!! The children played different games to help with their teamwork skills⭐️ #smithdownextra

4KM had a great afternoon creating their own still life artwork!!

4KM had a great afternoon creating their own still life artwork!! The children used a lot of different techniques to create their artwork???? #smithdownart

Year 4 had a wonderful morning!

Year 4 had a wonderful morning! They were amazing learning their first note on their trumpets. #smithdownmusic

4KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills…

4KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills during our PE lesson with @EITC ⚽️?? #smithdownextra

4KM were using dienes and counters…

4KM were using dienes and counters to work out many different ways in which hundreds can make 1000 #smithdownmaths ???

The children explored his life and paintings ?

4KM had a great afternoon completing their artist study about Paul Cezanne. The children explored his life and paintings ? #Smithdownart