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…
Thank you to our visitors today, we really enjoyed learning about their careers in banking during our question and answer session!We then became fraud investigators – we worked in groups and looked at all the exhibits and summarised the information to get the bottom of who might have committed the 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.
Thank you to all that attended Languages Club this half term. We’ve been very busy learning greetings in different languages, we looked at different European flags and matched languages to their country of origin, played games using the phrases and words we had learnt and even tasted some different foods Read more…
We had a great day celebrating European Day of languages! We all dressed in Red, White and Blue to represent the colours of the French flag, ate French croissants, learnt new phrases from many different European Languages, learnt a traditional French dance in the French Dance workshop and also discussed Read more…
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…