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The children explored his life and paintings ?

19-10-2023

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

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4KM were using dienes and counters…

19-10-2023

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

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

19-10-2023

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

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Year 4 had a wonderful morning!

19-10-2023

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

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

19-10-2023

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

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

19-10-2023

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

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Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️

19-10-2023

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

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Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork…

19-10-2023

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

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Using the attendance percentages of the week?

19-10-2023

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

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Acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️

19-10-2023

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

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

19-10-2023

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

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4KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets…

19-10-2023

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

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4KM had a great art lesson this afternoon?

19-10-2023

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

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

19-10-2023

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

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4KM had a great PE lesson…

19-10-2023

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

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

19-10-2023

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

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4KM had a great music lesson this morning?

19-10-2023

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

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Kicking our electricity topic off in year 4

19-10-2023

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

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

19-10-2023

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

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4LA ~ Sorting mains and battery powered appliances today

19-10-2023

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

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4KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits

19-10-2023

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

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4LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits

19-10-2023

4LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits #smithdownsci

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4KM exploring conductors & insulators this week

19-10-2023

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

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4LA exploring conductors & insulators

19-10-2023

4LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci

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

20-10-2023

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

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

10-11-2023

 

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Remembrance Day – ‘We will remember them’

13-11-2023
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Remembrance Day 2023

13-11-2023

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Let’s put our mapping skills into practice ?

13-11-2023
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Year 4 celebrations for Diwali. We love our Diwali lanterns!

13-11-2023

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Happy Diwali

13-11-2023
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How do you solve calculations with regrouping?

14-11-2023
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What an amazing biography!

15-11-2023
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Year 4 have had an amazing children in need?!!

17-11-2023

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

20-11-2023

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

28-11-2023

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Santa Dash 2023 ??????‍♀️????‍♂️

05-12-2023

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! ?

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

08-12-2023
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Year 3 and 4 had an amazing time watching a Christmas performance! We all had a good laugh and got involved.

11-12-2023

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12-01-2024
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Stars of the Week in 4LA

12-01-2024
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Silver Dojo Award – 200 dojos to these SUPERSTARS in 4LA

12-01-2024
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Year 4KM’s amazing stars of the week??!!!

19-01-2024

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Year 4 Pixel Art

24-01-2024

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.

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

30-01-2024

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Year 4 Pixel Mosaics

31-01-2024

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.

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

05-02-2024

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

05-02-2024
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How has tech changed through time?

06-02-2024
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Which colours compliment each other?

06-02-2024
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We love Wednesdays! It’s time for ?

07-02-2024
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Year 4 had so much fun at their campfire toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate??!!!

09-02-2024

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

23-02-2024

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

04-03-2024

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Happy world book day 2024???!!!

07-03-2024

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

07-03-2024

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World Book Day 2024

08-03-2024

What an amazing day in 4LA.

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

08-03-2024

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World book day 2024???!!!

08-03-2024

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What fabulous writers!

08-03-2024

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

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

08-03-2024

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Buzz Buzz

14-03-2024

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!

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The Smithdown Romans!

25-03-2024

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.

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

26-03-2024

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

19-04-2024

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

19-04-2024

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

25-04-2024

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Year 4

25-04-2024

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.

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What is a sculpture?

07-05-2024
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Buzz Wire Games

09-05-2024

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Check out our sketches ✍️

22-05-2024

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

23-05-2024

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

05-06-2024

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Our Mythical Creature Clay Sculptures…

05-06-2024

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Girls’ rugby

21-06-2024

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.

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4KM created some amazing posters for refugee week!!

21-06-2024

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

21-06-2024

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Fantastic Family Picnic

21-06-2024

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

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

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Year 4 enjoyed test testing ingredients for our Ramen recipe.

26-06-2024

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Singing Assembly!

03-07-2024

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.

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A great morning for sports day!

04-07-2024

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Sports day!

04-07-2024

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

 

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Well done to our stars of the week!!!

05-07-2024

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Happy Spanish day🇪🇸!!!

08-07-2024

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Spanish Day 🇪🇸

08-07-2024
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Well one to our stars of the week in year 3 and 4⭐️!!!

12-07-2024

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To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

15-07-2024

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

16-07-2024

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Cheque Presentation

17-07-2024

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.

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Historical Enquiry – The Romans 🏺🏛️

09-09-2024

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Year 4 History Enquiry

10-09-2024

Year 4 generated questions and predicted events around Roman artefacts.

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Black History Month ‘24

12-09-2024

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).

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Year 4- Repetition Loops Scratch

13-09-2024

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.

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Ukulele Time

18-09-2024
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Year 4 Computing

20-09-2024

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.

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Year 4 Ukulele

25-09-2024

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

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How to develop accuracy?

25-09-2024

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How did Rome begin?

25-09-2024

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Year 4 Still Life

27-09-2024

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.

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Teamwork makes the dream work 💫

03-10-2024

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What happens in chapter 5 with Mr Gum?

03-10-2024

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I made my work soooo much better 🌟 ✍️

04-10-2024

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

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

04-10-2024

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Ukulele

09-10-2024

We loved our morning learning the C and F chord.

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Danny Butler Event

11-10-2024

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

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Spanish 🇪🇸 Descriptions

14-10-2024

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What is a colour wheel? 🎨

14-10-2024


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

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PSHE… our learning charters

14-10-2024

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Hinduism … What is Moksha?

14-10-2024

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.

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Setting Descriptions 🌟

14-10-2024

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Year 4 Temple trip

15-10-2024

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

 

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Year 4 Everton in the Community

15-10-2024

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

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

15-10-2024

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Rounding to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.

15-10-2024

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Estimating on a number line to 10,000

15-10-2024

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What’s in the mystery box?

16-10-2024

 

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

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Y4 String telephones

16-10-2024

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!

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Deva Roman Experience

21-10-2024

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.

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A day in the life of a Roman soldier 🛡️

21-10-2024

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Diwali lanterns

22-10-2024


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

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Diwali Workshop

22-10-2024

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Diwali Celebrations

22-10-2024

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. 

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Some superb still life drawings 🎨👩‍🎨👨🏻‍🎨

25-10-2024

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Remembrance Day

11-11-2024

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

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Timetables in RE

12-11-2024

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

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Never judge a book by its cover 👏

12-11-2024


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

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Remembrance Day

12-11-2024

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Children in Need – maths

15-11-2024

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

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Children in Need 2024

15-11-2024

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NRG workshop

20-11-2024

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

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English drama activity

20-11-2024

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.

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NRG workshop

20-11-2024

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

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English Role Play

20-11-2024

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.

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Year 4 English

26-11-2024

This week we are writing our own twisted tale narrative. We spent this morning exploring what a good one looks like, locating features and writing our own alternative ending.

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4LA’s Sporting Superstars

26-11-2024

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Geographers!

28-11-2024

Some amazing work of Mount Etna in Year 4 today. So many facts and wonderful diagrams – well done!

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A visit from B-Tales!

02-12-2024

B-tales shared the story of Jonah and the Christmas twist.

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A great way to start our Monday with a B -Tales Production. 🎄

02-12-2024

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Year 4 Ukulele

04-12-2024

We’ve been working so hard this half term in music. The improvement in our playing is amazing!

 

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Year 4 PE

10-12-2024

We love our PE lessons. Another great session with Everton in the Community.

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