Year 4H: Gallery
Performance Poetry-June 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 5th Jun 2019 @ 1:19pm
Today we have been working together to learn and perform a poem by heart. The children were allowed to draw images as prompts but very few words. The children’s performances were fabulous well done.
Oldham Art Gallery - May 19, by Mr Jolly
Date: 15th May 2019 @ 4:40pm
On Wednesday 15th May, 4J visited Gallery Oldham. We had a look around the gallery and found many examples of patterns. We went onto design our own pattern on a polystyrene tile and roller printed it onto fabric. Next half term, we will be learning how to sew and will use this skill to transform these prints into a cushion. We have some fabulous designers in 4J. Well done for super behaviour as always.
Sacred Heart Church Visit-May 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 9th May 2019 @ 4:52pm
On Wedneday 8th May Year 4 took a wet and windy walk down the road to Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church. This was part of our R.E unit entitled "Are all Churches the Same?" We met Father Kevin at Sacred Heart and he spoke to us about the layout of his Church and some of the religious artefacts and books. The children were acompanied by two parent volunteers and a school governor, as well as staff. Thank you so much for your help. We have received e-mails commending the behaviour of the children and Mrs Cavill and Mr. Jolly are super proud of the mature way the children conducted themselves. Well done
STEM Week - April 2019, by Mr Jolly
Date: 2nd May 2019 @ 5:19pm
At the beginning of the week, we read the Bible Story Genesis 3. This story starts in the Garden of Eden and is called The beginning of Sin. In this, Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden. God tells them that they can eat fruit from any of the trees apart from the large one in the middle. A snake tells Eve to go ahead and eat from the tree despite God’s commandment. Eve is tempted and she goes against God. We wondered why she had decided to do this so we investigated in Science whether senses affect our temptation?
We tasted some baked beans. This of us that liked them thought they were lovely. We then took away people’s sight by blind folding them.
We wanted to find out if what children heard about the food would put them off. This also allowed us to see if the blindfolded children were affected by what they heard The other children shouted in horror when they saw green baked beans and green custard arrive in the classroom. The blindfolded children were a little unsure but bravely accepted the challenge: finding out that we should try not to rely on just one of our senses. We concluded that our senses have a massive impact on whether or not we can resist temptation.
Later on, we conducted an experiment based on the famous Rowntree’s Fruit Pastille adverts about how long we could have a sweet in our mouths before being tempted to chew.
The challenge faced was to see how long can you do before you chew! This used Maths skills to measure and record timings, collating data from the table and posing further question we could investigate. Year 4 were very good at resisting the temptation to chew.
After this, we used technology to record adverts, pretending we were the snake, to tempt Eve to try the fruit from the tree, just as the adverts had tempted people to take on the no chewing challenge. Children recorded thinking about camera angles and close ups etc. Some children even found appropriate music to accompany their different characters.
Finally, we used engineering and designing to put around the trees we had made to help Eve resist her temptation. We made a circuit containing a trip switch so that a buzzer or security light would go off if anyone went near the tree.
4J Class Collective Worship - May 2019, by Mr Jolly
Date: 1st May 2019 @ 4:40pm
STEM Presentations - April 2019, by Miss Hulse
Date: 28th Apr 2019 @ 5:24pm
On Friday, each year group presented their STEM project to the rest of the school with real success. It was clear that each class had had a fantastic time linking science, technology, engineering and mathematics together to answer a big question inspired from the Bible.
Collective Worship -April 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 26th Apr 2019 @ 3:56pm
Class Collective worship in 4C this week was baed on the story of Abraham, Friendship and Trust.
100% attendance - April 2019, by Miss Hulse
Date: 7th Apr 2019 @ 3:42pm
Well done to all of the children who received a certificate and an Easter egg for gaining 100% attendance for the Spring term - brilliant!
Church Visit-April 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 4th Apr 2019 @ 4:53pm
Yesterday 4J, 4C and afternoon nursery went to St. Peter's church fro our Easter Service.
Take a look at our pictures.
Easter Church Service - April 2019, by Mr Jolly
Date: 3rd Apr 2019 @ 4:01pm
4J Class Collective Worship - April 2019, by Mr Jolly
Date: 3rd Apr 2019 @ 3:59pm
KS2 Easter Egg competition , by Miss Hulse
Date: 3rd Apr 2019 @ 8:13am
Well done to KS2 for bringing in their decorated eggs yesterday, they were egg-celent.
St Joseph's Visit to St Peter's in 4J - March 2019, by Mr Jolly
Date: 29th Mar 2019 @ 4:27pm
Easter Extravaganza - March 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 27th Mar 2019 @ 4:39pm
This morning Mike from Rhema workshop treated us to a performance of the Easter story. The performance was rhyming, moving AND funny. Mr Wood even got involved in the production.
Synagogue Visit- March 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 22nd Mar 2019 @ 1:10pm
On Wednesday, as part of our Multi-Faith Week learning, year 4 were lucky enough to visit the Synagogue in Bury. We were shown around the synagogue by MIchael and Monty. We saw lots of interesting things, did some wor about the synagogue and even had a drink and crisps!
Performance Poetry - March 2019, by Mr Jolly
Date: 18th Mar 2019 @ 12:50pm
I-Sing Pop -March 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 13th Mar 2019 @ 12:43pm
I-Sing Pop is a Christian organisation that is visiting our school at the moment. Emma is helping us to learn lots of great songs with Christian values such as, being caring, thankfulness and love, at the heart. We are loving it! The songs are fun AND there's some fabulous dance moves! We are recording C-D's that will be for sale, I'm sure your children will write you an autograph if you ask nicely. Watch out for times of the concerts at school-Wembley Stadium Next stop!
What a Busy Day! -March 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 13th Mar 2019 @ 12:14pm
Year 4 had a very busy day on Friday. It started in the morning with a talk by a published poet called Matthew Goodfellow. This was followed by a workshop in the classroom by Matthew, with ideas to help us write poetry. Matthew's ideas were very helpful, thinking about first drafts of writing, "Don't get it right,get it written." Get allyour ideas down then go back to edit and improve later.
In the afternoon we began rehearsals with I-Sing Pop- Gallery photos to follow!
Whole School Worship with Reverend Watkinson- March 2019, by Miss Mulkeen
Date: 11th Mar 2019 @ 4:39pm
Class Collective Worship Year 4 -February 2019, by Mrs Cavill
Date: 14th Feb 2019 @ 5:48pm
This week the collective worship was all about being courageous. The children read a bible story about how Jesus had the courage to stand agaist the authorities and heal people on the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a day of rest and the pharisees saw Jesus' good deeds as work. They used this as an excuse to plot agnst Jesus. A lovely well planned collective worship children well done.
