Year 4
Hello and welcome to Year 4.
Our Year 4 Team: Miss Ansell, Miss Meneely, Mrs Kelly, Miss Zafeiraki, Miss Thompson and Miss Hanlon
Our ethos is learning whilst having fun and understanding that making mistakes is perfectly normal; as long as we learn from them!
Information for Parents
Click here for the Yearly Overview for 2024 – 2025
Class Timetables
Click here for Miss Meneely’s class timetable
Click here for Miss Ansell’s class timetable.
PE
PE kit is navy blue shorts and a sky-blue polo shirt. Trainers or pumps.
Miss Meneely’s class has PE every Tuesday.
Miss Ansell’s class has PE every Tuesday.
Reading
Please try and read with your child every night. Really focus on asking questions about their book as this will help them with their reading comprehension.
SPAG
To further the children’s understanding of spelling, punctuation and grammar we will be setting homework on SPAG.com.
Times Tables
Our main push this year in Y4 will be times tables knowledge and rapidity. Practising weekly tables and enjoying times tables rockstars (login details can be found inside home reading record) will support you and your child with learning this. Please use the link below for an excellent example of Y4 expectation.
https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/
Maths
To further the children’s understanding of mathematical fluency and problem solving we will be setting homework on maths.co.uk
Finally, if there are any questions or concerns please feel free to speak to any of us before or after the school day.
Year 4 Chatter
Year 4 Ukulele
We’ve been working so hard this half term in music. The improvement in our playing is amazing!
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Geographers!
Some amazing work of Mount Etna in Year 4 today. So many facts and wonderful diagrams – well done!
5Year 4 English
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.
8English 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.
11NRG workshop
Year 4 have learnt lots today about saving energy and money with Dr Watts and Dr Sparks.
9English 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 – maths
8Year 4 spent this morning exploring Children in Need themed problems and discussing possible answers.
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.
9Remembrance Day
We did our one minute silence. After, we used our sketching skills to create some Remembrance Day artwork.
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.
15Diwali lanterns
We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.
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!
10What’s in the mystery box?
We found some items in our box to help us with predicting what our new class text is about.
10Year 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.
19Year 4 Temple trip
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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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.
34What 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.
Danny Butler Event
We had the best day doing our sponsored event with Danny Butler. We couldn’t believe his bike skills! Wow!
28I made my work soooo much better 🌟 ✍️
I used fronted adverbials, conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and personification. ⭐️🥳
37Year 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.
9Year 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.
13Year 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.
17Black 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).
67Year 4 History Enquiry
Year 4 generated questions and predicted events around Roman artefacts.
17Cheque 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🏝⛱!!!
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.
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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.
35Fantastic Family Picnic
A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
101Girls’ 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.
254KM had a great afternoon discussing what it means to be loved and creating their own collage about a person special to them❤️
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.
334KM had a great PHSE lesson coming up with different ways to cope with various scenarios.
4KM had a great morning working with the Hope university students learning about light and sound??!!
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.
151Buzz 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!
60What fabulous writers!
We have been working towards writing a Kenning Poem and today all of our hard work paid off.
24Year 4 had so much fun at their campfire toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate??!!!
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.
294KM 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.
30Year 3 and 4 had an amazing time watching a Christmas performance! We all had a good laugh and got involved.
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! ?
67Year 4 had an amazing geography lesson creating their own structures of the earth’s layers, and how they link to earthquakes!?
4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC???
4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC progressing their teamwork skills??? #smithdownextra
454LA exploring conductors & insulators
4LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
554KM exploring conductors & insulators this week
4KM exploring conductors & insulators this week @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
544LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits
4LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits #smithdownsci
504KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits
4KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4
514LA ~ 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
46Great 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
51Kicking 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
484KM 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
594KM 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
564KM had a great PE lesson…
4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra
444KM 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
524KM 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
394KM 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
514KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English?
4KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English? #smithdownenglish
42Acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️
4KM created their own posters and acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️ #smithdownenglish
45Using the attendance percentages of the week?
4KM celebrated attendance week by creating their own bar graphs using the attendance percentages of the week? #smithdownmath
49Our 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
47Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️
Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️ keep up the hard work girls!! #smithdownextra
48Another 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
464KM 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
47Year 4 had a wonderful morning!
Year 4 had a wonderful morning! They were amazing learning their first note on their trumpets. #smithdownmusic
604KM 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
444KM were using dienes and counters…
4KM were using dienes and counters to work out many different ways in which hundreds can make 1000 #smithdownmaths ???
55The 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
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