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St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School

Nurturing hearts and minds

YEAR 4

PE Days 

Monday - Swimming

Thursday - Sports with Phil

 

Multiplication Check

Please follow the link to practice your times tables - https://www.timestables.co.uk 

Visit to Avenham and Miller Parks
Year 4 had a fantastic morning at Avenham and Miller Park. We walked through the Green Way, finding inspiration for a story setting, paused at the bridge to discuss uses and the history of the River Ribble and explored the parks.

We visited the fountain at Miller Park and speculated at the history of the abandoned manor (we later discovered it used to be a hotel), walked through the Japanese Rock Gardens, looked for koi, played on the park and ran down hills.

We have some great ideas for our writing and found out some fascinating history about the parks!

Reporting The Weather in French

In our French lessons, we have been learning how to say what the weather is like. Children then wrote their own weather report and presented them to the class.

Creating A River

We have been learning about rivers in geography and so, we set up an experiment to see if we could recreate the formation of a river.

We were able to see the water trickle down the slope, pushing sand out of its way to create a path, pool at the bottom, meander and continue to flow in a stream down hill. 

 

Dogs Trust Visit

Year 4 had a lovely afternoon learning about dog safety. We were visited by Sam from Dogs Trust, who brought her trusty pooch Wilf (a stuffed toy) along, to teach us about being safe around dogs and how to treat dogs. 

We learned that dogs, like children, can be sensitive and all have different feelings which we must respect. They can feel frightened or threatened and we need to make them feel safe so that they act safe around us

RE - Community

Today we reflected on our RE focus of "Community". We discussed what makes a community, the different roles within a church, how the parish helps a community and how we are part of a community. 

 

We enjoyed reflecting on this over a chocolate biscuit.

Greek Day

We have really enjoyed learning about the Ancient Greeks and so we spent a day immersing ourselves in the topic. We made honey cakes, sampled Greek food, made our own wreath crowns and explored the Greek alphabet. 

Gymnastics

Year 4 have been working hard over the past six weeks learning a variety of balances, jumps, rolls and ways to travel like an animal. They have put these skills together to make a routine with a partner. 

 

The children shared their routines with the class this week and did a fabulous job. 

Ancient Greece

We have been enjoying learning about the Ancient Greeks over the past few weeks. We have explored ancient artefacts, learnt about famous landmarks, discovered how the Olympics began, learned that brains won over muscle in the Trojan War and had a passionate debate about whether we would prefer to live in Athens or Sparta. Athens won!