Blog Author: Julia Hall

Year 4 have had a fantastic day on our trip. Everybody was very well behaved. A huge thank you to parents for all the effort made with outfits, the children looked brilliant. 

More pictures to follow. 

This afternoon we are making identity labels and gas mask boxes in preparation for our trip to Stockport Air Raid Shelters on Wednesday. 

We have a class full of journalists in Year 4 today. We have written our own report on the subject of an old WWII bomb being uncovered at Pilkington Park. 

This morning we are finding all the features of newspaper articles in preparation for writing our own. 

We are working on Scratch again this morning with our computing expert Mr Choudry.

This morning we have been playing a game with dice to help us add and subtract numbers mentally.

Year 4 will be visiting Stockport air raid shelters on the 11th of October. Here are some suggestions of period dress for the day. The children will probably have most of these things as their school uniform. If not normal school uniform is fine. These are not compulsory. Thanks,

Mrs…

A spelling list is being sent home with your child tonight. To be tested next Friday. There is also English homework this week, to be handed in next Friday. 

This morning we have been writing our own version of a poem by Allan Ahlberg. To be performed in assembly next week. 

This afternoon we have been learning about evacuation during the WWII period. We used De Bono's Thinking Hats to discuss and think about the problems, emotions and feelings and evacuee would face. This led into some hot seating, with the children asking each other some fabulous…

We are testing our times tables knowledge playing a game called gladiator Maths, where the children have to be the first to touch the answer to the question with their swords (rulers). 

This morning in computing Year 4 are working on coding.