Hello and welcome to Year 4.
Our Year 4 Team: Miss Ansell, Miss Meneely, Mrs Kelly, Miss Brown, Miss Qasem and Miss Walsh.
Our ethos is learning whilst having fun and understanding that making mistakes is perfectly normal; as long as we learn from them!
Click here for the Autumn Term Overview for 2023
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.
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/
Finally, if there are any questions or concerns please feel free to speak to any of us before or after the school day.
Keep up to date with our latest news by following us on X (formerly twitter) @SmithdownPrimY4
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 generated questions and predicted events around Roman artefacts.
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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.
Super morning with our LKS2 sports day! We had a great day for it and we all tried our best with every activity.
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 fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.
An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.
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.
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.
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.
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!
We have been working towards writing a Kenning Poem and today all of our hard work paid off.
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.
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.
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! ?
4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC progressing their teamwork skills??? #smithdownextra
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4LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
4KM exploring conductors & insulators this week @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
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4LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits #smithdownsci
4KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4
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!! This time, circuits. They took up the challenge of making the light bulb light ? #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4
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? the children also learnt how to play a new note? @ResonateHub #smithdownmusic
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 with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra
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? 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, the children were even able to learn a new note?? #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub
4KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English? #smithdownenglish
4KM created their own posters and acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️ #smithdownenglish
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 and how different strategies can help a team win ⭐️ @EITC #smithdownextra
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!! The children played different games to help with their teamwork skills⭐️ #smithdownextra
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! They were amazing learning their first note on their trumpets. #smithdownmusic
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 to work out many different ways in which hundreds can make 1000 #smithdownmaths ???
4KM had a great afternoon completing their artist study about Paul Cezanne. The children explored his life and paintings ? #Smithdownart
