Year 4 Blog 2024/25

AI is all around us, from personal devices to household appliances. Today helped us to understand this technology with a new assembly from Be Internet Legends. We enjoyed learning about AI in a fun way, with simple definitions, relatable examples and interactive challenges.  We also enjoyed having our own Internaut to decorate whilst we listened!

 Today, Year have 4 have been looking at community and the importance of the role of neighbour within the community. We spent some time looking at the parable of the good samaritan and then had a go at creating our own modern-day version in groups.  Finally, we made story cubes of the parable with the hidden message inside. Take a look!

 Today in PSHE we read the book ‘Along Came a Different’ by Tom McLaughlin. In the book, the shapes all believe that they are the best shape and colour. They become very upset when a ‘different’ comes along and upsets this view. They come up with rules to keep the different shapes apart, but this just makes everyone upset. In the end some new ‘differents’ come along and show them all that being different is the best thing ever.  We loved exploring this text, which we were able to tie in with our reading about Matthew Henson in English. We had a great time making posters of the ‘differents’ to remind us of the message! Take a look below. 

 This week in English and PSHE we have been exploring the importance of feelings and emotions and the words you can associate with them. English saw the children creating a bank of vocabulary that was centred around The Race To The Frozen North. Words such as determined, hopeful, excited and many more.   In PSHE we took these words and looked at how we can present these feelings without talking or using verbal cues. 

 Year 4 learnt learnt the sentence starter: Dans ma trousse to learn stationery vocabulary. They then practised this new vocabulary with their partners and also through song. They have also been learning the simplest way of expressing opinions, by saying and then writing some of the activities they take part in  at school.

 This week in Maths, Year 4 have been finishing off their place value unit with rounding to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.  In order practice all of the new techniques we have learnt, the children played a board game that needed rounding in order to progress. Take a look!