Year 4 | Birkwood Primary School

Brilliant brass!

We even had some solos this week with A Quarter’s Worth!

We were delighted to hold an art exhibition and poetry recital for our families. We shared our learning by taking like an artist and entertained our audience with Some Other Names for Rain by Kate Wakeling.

Virtual manipulatives…

Maths, Year 4

We enjoyed playing with place value using virtual manipulatives. We know how many hundreds tens and ones of which a number is composed.

Handball lesson 5 introduce defending

PE and Sport, Year 4

Why are these words special?

RE, Year 4

We revisited the parable of the soil before learning and quizzing each other about the Torah scroll, its importance to Judaism and why it is treated in an important and respectful way.

Lesson 4 handball year 4 AL develop passing moving and shooting

PE and Sport, Year 4

Numbers on Strike…

Philosophy, Year 4

After an initial discussion about numbers, our favourite and most important numbers, we were just about ready to start our enquiry when we received the news flash! The numbers had gone on strike! What will we do? What might go wrong? Could we get along without numbers? Might the world be better without numbers or simply impossible?

Collaboration Tier Two Vocab…

English, Year 4

As a reminder of key vocabulary, children reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, recalled prior knowledge by working together to match definitions to vocabulary at the start of their reading comprehension lesson.

Safety is Key

PSHE, Year 4

We have been discussing equipment, actions and decisions involved in cycling and community safety.

Tools and Machinery

PE and Sport, Year 4

We used dance actions, levels and dynamics to create a dance sequence based on coal mining.

Brass Lesson 2

Music, Year 4

We practised our hold, lip position, rhythms and blowing.

Digestion

Science, Year 4

We have learned about the series of organs which break down food. Did you know that there are over 100 healthy bacteria in your gut? A healthy diet is a healthy gut and a healthy gut is a healthy mind!

Exploring a Historical Resource

History, Year 4

We learned about the life of a Victorian child miner by looking at an artist impression of the winding gear and treacherous descent down the mine shaft.

Brass Lesson 1

Music, Year 4

We learned how to look after and hold our brass instruments as well as making initial sounds by vibrating our lips on the mouthpiece and through our instruments.