ARCHIVED Year 4 Blog 2024/25

 Today we were visited by Poppy and Lisa, who are PSCOs who came in to speak to us about staying safe and discrimination. We talked about how everyone is different but we are all the same and so we should treat everyone with respect. This links with our theme of ‘No Outsiders’. The children listened brilliantly and were very respectful throughout. 

 This week in PSHE, Year 4 have been discussing stereotypes and just how common they are in society. WE mind-mapped out lots of common stereotypes we see day to day and how they can impact on others. We spoke about how certain stereotypes can have a very negative impact on how certain groups of people are seen in their daily lives.  

Today, we had the opportunity to attend a workshop hosted by Julia, who talked to us all about SCARF.  SCARF is the scheme that we have been using in our PSHE lessons this year. In the session today we learned how to: Identify personal strengths, skills, achievements and interests and how these contribute to a sense of self-worth; Think about personal identity and what contributes to who we are (e.g. ethnicity, family, gender, faith, culture, hobbies, likes/dislikes); Discuss problem-solving strategies for dealing with emotions, challenges and change, including the transition to a new school; Consider and understand reasons for following and complying with regulations and restrictions (including age restrictions); how these promote personal safety and wellbeing in relation to social media, television programmes, films, games and online gaming. We all really enjoyed the workshop, especially meeting Howard the SCARF giraffe!

 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.