Year 4 Maple currently go to Heywood Sports Village every Monday afternoon for their swimming lesson. They are all doing really well and making lots of progress. Here are some of them with their most recent certificates of achievement and are ready to progress onto the next stage.
During our Computing lessons this half term, Year 4 are learning how to use micro:bits. In our first lesson today, we have been practising how to connect the mirco:bits to the computer as well as programming them to follow a simple command.
This half term in Year 4 our DT topic is Structure. In our first lesson we have been exploring different frame structures to test which are the most stable using toothpicks and sweets. We made basic geometric structures and then created larger structures considering strength and stability.
This year, Year 4 are taking part in ‘The Linking Project’. We have been partnered with Marland Hill Community Primary School and today we got to meet our partner class for the first time. We met at the M6 theatre in Rochdale where we took part in different workshops and Read more…
We have been really enjoying our Music lessons in Year 4 this half term. We have been learning about motifs in music – playing motifs on the glockenspiels, composing our own motifs and performing our motifs on the glockenspiels to the class.
This half term, we have been introduced to Skills Builder. It is a set of 8 skills that are important and that will be needed in our future careers. Our current focuses are the skills of listening and speaking (presenting). We have discussed the types of jobs which require excellent Read more…
Today we had a visit from Touchstones museums. They came to talk to us about the Romans which is our History topic for this half term. We looked at a map to see where the Romans originated from and then we looked at some vexillum’s which is a flag used Read more…
We had the artist Hugh Templeton join us in school today. He worked with us to help us create a piece of art work using water colours. We tried to recreate the picture of the Earth that Apollo 11 took when they landed on the moon. We really enjoyed the Read more…
Yesterday, we visited our link school, Littleborough Primary for the day. We took part in lots of different activities with them and we had a really fun day. We played circle time games, drew around our hands and decorated them, worked in teams to build marshmallow and cocktail stick towers Read more…
Today we took part in lots of activities as part of our MAF fun day. MAF is a charity that we have partnered with this year. We made paper aeroplanes and had a competition to see whose plane flew the furthest, we took part in a prayer zone challenge and Read more…