Year 4RJ: Blog items
Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 2:14pm
SPORTS DAY! Despite the weather forecast, children in 4RJ were atheletes today. With Mr Jones they were astronauts, using their travelling skills to travel across the astro court, and earn points for their houses. With Miss Brookes, the children had to get cones for their houses and earn points! With Miss Khan the children practised their throwing skills, by using bean bags and other things. Miss Higgins turned the children into cars who would transport around the multicourt.
As part of our golden today, the children had earnt the treat of decorating biscuits, with icing , sprinkles and chocolate chips. This was because of the fantastic behaviour shown across the week.
All of these treats are halal.
Homework is being sent home today (Friday 22nd), there will be spellings, times-tables and maths work to practise. Please return your home by Friday 29th of September. Spellings and timestables will be tested then.
Date: 15th Sep 2023 @ 1:52pm
What a week! This week we began our swimming lessons, which we really enjoyed!
"Swimming was fun and amazing, we had a good time!" reported Natalie.
"Some people went in the big pool and some went in the shallow pool," shared Shardane.
"Swimming was amazing and the best part was swimming in the deep pool!" beamed Rayyan.
We began our science unit on teeth and learned that there are different types of teeth such as the incisor which is used to cut and chop. The canine is used to rip or tear. The premolars and molars are used to chew our food and help us to eat.
In maths we used words such as minuend and subtrahend and difference. Maybe some of the chidlren can test their parents to see if they know what these words mean! That's a challenge.
Homework is being sent home today (Friday 15th), there will be spellings, times-tables and maths work to practise. Please return your home by Friday 22nd of September. Spellings and timestables will be tested next week.
Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 2:07pm
This week has been a busy week in year 4. We have begun our maths learning, and used words such as addend and sum. As part of our CC, we created our Maya masks which look fantastic on the front cover of our books. In addition, we also played the Pok-Ta-Pok Maya game, which during the Maya time was very dangerous (luckily we stayed safe). Friday morning we welcomed some parents and carers in to our classroom as part of our meet-the-teacher sessions. All the information that was shared can be found on our class page.
Next week, we have PE on Monday so we'll need to wear the correct kit, and we begin swimming on Wednesday. A letter about swimming has been sent home.
Check back next week for more information!
Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 12:21pm
On Thursday, we visited a different school in Wythenshawe called SS John Fisher and Thomas Moore primary school. We spent time making friends with different children which was a lot of fun. We were all in a group with children who we'd never met before, and at first it was a little scary and played some games whereby we learnt more about our new friends. We even had a competition to see which group knew the most about climate change and team 4 won. We saw Chris and Izzy again who are from the charity HOME who ran workshops for us on the day. We explored the school and got to see different classrooms - the school was very different to ours. As well, we found out that the person who drew the Minions was a pupil at their school. In the afternoon, we made posters of how we would change the world with our new friends. We had a great time at break and lunch, even though their break and lunch times are shorter than ours. Luckily, we had a third breaktime in the afternoon which made up for it.
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 12:21pm
Our maths this week has focussed on addition and subtraction and remembering how and when to exchange within and betweeen the column s!
We started our Viking longships this week, and made pulleys to be able to lift things, we will use these later in the week when we create our longships and put a mast and sail on them.
For our writing, we designed and painted our own dragons based on the events of the text, How to train your dragon.
Swimming focussed on diving this week, where some children began learning how to dive in the pool.
Our PE focussed on gymnastics, and we also managed to have one practise of our dance on the stage.
Science was all about the pitch of different sounds, we discovered that the faster the vibrations to higher the pitch, and the slower the vibrations the lower the pitch. We experimented with 3 different instruments.
Date: 16th Jun 2023 @ 1:48pm
This week has been hot, hot, hot!
The big event of this week is that we have completed the MTC! It was quick, and the children did fantastically because of their hard work. There is no pass mark for the MTC, and it is scored out of 25, with 6 seconds to answer each question before it dissappeared. Scores will be sent home with the end of year reports.
We practised the dance for our end of year KS2 performance and used to glockenspiels to practise our song. In PE, we began our unit on gymnastics and focussed on travelling.
At swimming lots of children have now moved away from using equipment in the pool which is fantastic!
Date: 9th Jun 2023 @ 2:27pm
On Tuesday, Year 4 celebrated our Viking day where we came dressed as Vikings, and participated in a range of Viking activities.
At the beginning of the day, we decorated our shields and took them outside to play some team games. One was called fishing. Later, we raided an Anglo-Saxon village and found lots of artefacts! After breaktime, we raided a British village and Miss Bryce and Mrs Caine were not very happy...they came back to class to find that their furniture had been plundered! oops! We celebrated our victory with mead.
We explored Thor's hammer next, and created it using marshmallows or flapjacks. We're not sure Thor's real hammer was that tasty...
In the afternoon, we began our CC unit and explored the similarities and difference between the Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions!
Date: 21st May 2023 @ 2:59pm
On Monday, year 4 ventured to Castleton! Whilst we were there, we visited Speedwell Cavern - a mine where you travel underground on a boat! Although it was spooky at first, we thoroughly enjoyed it.
We also completed a traffic survey and field sketch which we will now compare with Clayton.
Date: 28th Apr 2023 @ 1:47pm
What a week!
This week, we tried to swim to Paris...only joking! In our swimming lesson, we were challenged to swim as many lengths of the swimming pool as we could. There is a challenge that many Manchester schools are taking part in at the moment, which encourages children to swim for as long as they can. We will find out how many length we did next week, and see if we managed to swim to Paris.
In science, we looked at classifciation keys, and how we would classify different animals using keys. Our CC focussed on us being geographers and comparing Castleton and Clayton using ordnance survey maps. Clayton is a part of a city, whereas Castleton is a village, so they are very different! Did you know that Clayton has a natue reserve, but Castleton does not?
In our writing lessons, we are writing persuasive leaflets to persuade our linked Y4 class to visit Clayton.
Please remember to bring in empty cereal boxes next week, and to bring in the trip letters. There is bank holiday on Monday and a strike day on Tuesday :)
Wicked Wednesday with the school linking project
Date: 19th Apr 2023 @ 2:30pm
What a wicked Wednesday morning Year 4 have had. We had two visitors from HOME who worked with us on some drama. We explored friendships, and how to work together as a team. We had such a great morning, and the visitors, Izzy and Kris, spoke to Mrs Hughes on their way out of school, and said how they were impressed they were by the fantastic behaviour and attitudes shown this morning.
We will continue with our school linking project throughout the rest of our time in year 4.
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 12:22pm
On Tuesday morning, we visited Beswick library as part of our world book day celebrations!
When we arrived at the library, we were taken upstairs by the librarians to the children's section. We were gifted a book of our choie by the library to take home and keep. We were told that borrowing library books is free, so everyone should do that.
The library runs lots of clubs, such as art and lego clubs and computing clubs. Gerard told how much he enjoyed school, in particular reading at school.
We will definitely want to visit again.
Thank you to all parents and carers for booking pupil progress meeting appointments. Please see Mr Jones if you did not book an appointment.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 12:26pm
What a busy week!
We launched our new CC unit - Why did the Anglo-Saxons invade, and we're reading a book called Anglo-Saxon boy, which follows the sotry of Magnus as he preapres for battle! We were archaeologisits and found artefacts, as well as some Anglo-Saxon weaving which we used for our CC books.
Our maths focus has been on rectallinear shapes, and the perimeter of those shapes, as well as using a ruler to measure!
In our writing, we have focussed on expadning noun phrases, using the rule of three to improve our writng, using a range of superlative and compatritve adjectivces! We also wrote a blurb of the Anglo-Saxon boy.
We started our new unit on electricity in science, and found different things in the classroom that use electricity.
Our Computing learning focussed on scratch, using different algorithms and scripts to make our sprite move.
On Wednesday we had such fun when swimming this week and we even managed to swim twenty five meteres, with some of us doing that without any support.
Check in next week to see what else we have been up to!
Date: 20th Jan 2023 @ 10:29am
What a chilly end to to the week!
Today, year 4 visited the River Medlock which flows through Phillips Park. This is a part of our CC learning, and we had a look to see if we could spot any meanders or pollution. We heard the water swaying and flowing, squirrels and birds in the trees, saw lots of rocks and trees! The river was surrounded by trees and near many public spaces. It was quite icy too, so we were extra careful!
Date: 13th Jan 2023 @ 2:04pm
We did an experiment on solids, liquids and gases.
In writing we've been writing a persuasive letter to Mrs Hughes
In maths, we've been working on fractions.
We have been reading 'The Water Horse' in our class reading lessons.
In P.E. we have been developing our underarm throw.
In swimming we had races to improve our swimming speed.
In English we were writing about the mysterious egge we found.
In CC we are learning how to survive without water.
In CC we are learning to save water
In writing we are working on a final draft of a letter.
In music we composed a soundscape to represent different bodies of water.
We completed a problem solving workshop with the 'Happy Puzzle Company'.
We went for a swimming lesson and some of our confident swimmers used fewer swimming aids.
In CC we looked at river banks and a flood plain.
In CC we learnt how a lake gets to the sea.
We've learnt about improper fractions.
In our assembly we learnt to never give up.
We had a spelling test and improved on my last scoreIn science we we grouped different materials.
In maths we learnt to convert improper and mixed numbers.
We have read 3 chapters of 'The Water Horse'.
We developed our knowlede of what fractions are.
We learnt Spanish names for colours.
In science we compared different states of matter.
Date: 6th Jan 2023 @ 2:28pm
Happy new year!
What a busy week. Read and outline of our week below.
On January the 4th, when we arrived at school, we found a mysterious egg in the playground. We brought it upstairs to our classroom and decided what we should do about it. We decided that we would write a persuasive letter to Mrs Hughes to try and persuade her to either get rid of it, or let us keep it and see what might happen. We then explored the features of a persuasive letter, and focussed on the reason, audience and features. We then generated points for and against, before debating as a class. The jury decided that they would side with the points against keeping the egg, but we will see what Mrs Hughes says. You'll see a picture of the egg below.
Maths
In maths, we have been learning about fractions. We have looked at what a whole unit is, used a fraction wall to find equivalent unit and non-unit fractions. This is something we will continue next week.
Connected curriuculum
In our CC this week, we launched our unit by creating a rain dance, which is why it has rained so much this week - sorry! We have explored what a river is and the different features of it.
Check back next week for more fun-filled learning! 
Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 8:35pm
On Thursday, Year 4 visited the St Cross Church.
This linked to our R.E topic 'What is it like to be a Christian in Britain today?'
During our visit, we were able to explore many different areas of the Church. These included the Vestry, Ladies Chapel, Font and Sunday School area. Father Chris was able to teach us about the importance of the Church to Christians, whilst answering the hundreds of questions that we had.
Each child followed our school rules of being respectful, responsible and safe. They were brilliant ambassadors for our school!
Attached are some pictures of our morning there.
Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 11:28am
For this week's science, we have been creating food chains. We looked at producers, consumers, prey and predators. We learnt that most food chains begin with a plant, which takes it energy from the Sun in a process called photosynthesis. We also learnt the animal which is at the end of the food chain (and is not eaten by anything else) is the predator. We learnt that prey can sometimes be a primary consumer, but a predator is the secondary consumer. This links with what we will be learning next week, which is all about food webs.
This has all been a part of our science unit on animals including humans and focussing on the digestive system.
Take a look at a some of the food chains that we made below...
Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 3:26pm
What a week!
We have made so much progress in our swimming this week and even learned how to use back stroke and how to use 'frogs legs' to move in the water!
We have been using arrays to multiply and divide in maths this week, and applying our knowledge to answer depth 3 challenges - some have been tricky!
Because we will be visiting a church in the next few weeks we explored what happens in a church and also looked at the wesbite of St Cross church.
We did a lesson with Will from CCO this week and explored the playground using our orienteering and map skills.
We have been reading our class text this week and have reached chapter 9 in the text and are excited to see what happens to the characters next now that the earthquake has happened!
Check back next week for some pictures!
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 3:20pm
What a fun first week!
This week, we had a visitor called Rebaz Mohammed visit Ravensbury. He showed off some his his fantastic skills and tricks and eve taught us some too! Have a look at the pictures to see our skills. A booklet has been sent home this week which shows how to complete the different tricks. Why not have a go at home?
Check back next week for more Year 4 fun!
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 11:46am
This has been a busy start to year 4.
Here are just some of the things we've achieved this half term:
- Making a Maya tortilla and designed recipe
- Swimming
- Read a story about a set of Hero Twins
- Use part-whole models in maths
- Celebrate me day
- Orienteering in PE
- Harvest celebrations
- Singing and music with Miss Kent
- Teeth in science
- Looked at the effect of tooth decay on some eggs.
- Compared civilisations in CC
- Wrote a non-chronological report and a myth
- Spoke about Diwali
- Learned why the Maya civilisation almost ended
- Learned how to exchange in maths (addition and subtraction)
- Learned how to compensate in maths (to make things easier)
- Visited the library
- Wrote manifestos and voted for our school councillor
- Voted for house captains
- Looked at mental health and what that means
- Created a class charter of our rights and responsibilites.
And so much more! Thank you parents for coming in and visiting us to share our celebrations for celebrate me day and to make our tortilla!
Have a great half term!
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 8:18am
Please find attached this week's homework.
You should return your homework to school by next Friday (21st) as we will be testing spellings.
Have a great weekend.
Mr Jones and Miss Brookes
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 8:10am
What a fantastic day we had celebrating us!
The children came in wearing clothes which celebrated their culture, religion, heritage as well as things which represented them (favourite colour, their aspiration). Rumour has it there was a Manchester Bee floating around in 4CB...
We visited an assembly where we had visitors who used to attend our school, celebrating all that they have achieved since moving on from Ravensbury. It was fantastic to see so many members of our schoool community.
In the afternoon, Year 4 spent time reflecting on what makes them who they are today. This was reflected in some fantastic artwork that they created. This artwork will be displayed outside of our classrooms and will remind us every day how important it is to be individuals, and to celebrate who we are!
It was fantastic to see so many parents come and join us and celebrate our school community. Thank you parents.
We'll show the finished product soon!
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 7:58am
Please see below for a copy of this week's homework.
All homework must be returned to school by Friday 14th October. If your child has misplaced their homework, you can collect a new copy from their class teacher. Alternatively, you can complete the attached homework on scrap paper.
Miss Brookes & Mr Jones
Date: 5th Oct 2022 @ 11:59am
Over the past week, year 4 have carried out a very interesting science experiment - all about tooth decay. As the surface of an egg shell is very similiar to the enamel on teeth, they chose four different liquids to submerge the eggs into.
We then observed the egg shells over a week, and studied what happened to the surface of each of them.
By Wednesday, the jugs were very smelly!
Date: 1st Oct 2022 @ 2:45pm
Please see below for a copy of this week's homework.
All homework must be returned to school by Friday 7th October. If your child has misplaced their homework, you can collect a new copy from their class teacher. Alternatively, you can complete the attached homework on scrap paper.
Miss Brookes & Mr Jones