Year 4 | Birkwood Primary School

The Year 4 Rosalind Franklin Class retold the story of Moses on Mount Sinai (The Ten Commandments) to understand why the Torah is treasured and respected by Jewish people. These words are special.

L5 Introducing defending (Handball)

PE and Sport, Year 4

The Year 4 Rosalind Franklin Class learnt how to defend, (mark), when they were not in possession. Pupils had to understand why we need to defend as a team when we are not in possession. We learned why we need to mark and explore basic defensive tactics to prevent the attackers from scoring.

Rosalind Franklin Class collaborated…

English, PE and Sport, Year 4

The Year 4 Rosalind Franklin Class collaborated to create a travelling sequence about the framer’s plot to catch the Iron Man. Our dance expressed the theme of friendship and support I the class text; The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Everyone was included!

Handball

PE and Sport, Year 4

The Rosalind Franklins have been focussing on passing and shooting during handball lessons.

Mindfulness

PE and Sport, Year 4

The Year 4 Rosalind Franklin class have continued with mindfulness during their indoor PE lesson. We created mime actions for sad, hungry and excited.

Handball

PE and Sport, Year 4

I can combine passing, moving and shooting to attack collaboratively with a teammate.

Interpretation…

PE and Sport, Year 4

I can interpret music to create movements, whilst thinking about emotions.

I can create a movement sequence to express emotions.

Passing the ball

PE and Sport, Year 4

I can move and pass the ball whilst motivating my teammates.

I can develop my passing by creating space, whilst communicating with my team.

L1 Mindfulness

PE and Sport, Year 4

We loved creating movements and patterns based on calm.

Handball…

PE and Sport, Year 4

Handball L1
We included everyone in remembering our catching hands.

Handball L2

Everyone worked on their passing and defending tactics.

Digestion…

Science, Year 4

The Year 4 Rosalind Franklin Class loved participating in a demonstration of what happens to food during digestion.

School Council Elections

PSHE, Year 4

The Year 4 Rosalind Franklin Class prepared speeches to persuade our audience to vote for us (or not!). We all had the chance to speak aloud and to vote democratically for our two class representatives. The votes will be counted and the process verified before the announcement next week.

The digestive system

Science, Year 4

Today we watched a demonstration of the digestive system using tights, a sandwich bag, food and water. Not forgetting the bag and draw to catch the excretion!

Rosalind Franklin Dance

PE and Sport, Year 4

This week we created a dance sequence using actions. Our vocabulary was spiral, DNA and X-Ray. We loved expressing ourselves through the movements.

Manipulatives…

Maths, Year 4

We used manipulatives to remember place value and write the thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.

Thousands, hundreds, tens and ones…

Maths, Year 4

The Year 4 Rosalind Franklin Class have been working collaboratively to use manipulatives to make numbers including thousands, hundreds, tens and ones.

Birkwood Choir

Music, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6

On Monday 13th July our school choir shared the songs they have been learning in after school club with their parents and carers. We are extremely proud of their hard work and cannot wait to see where we go with them next year!

Thank you to our amazing School Reading Volunteers

English, Year 4

The Year 4 Ada Lovelace class invited the amazing reading volunteers to a tea party. We with entertained them with our brass music and engaged in lots of small talk from big hearts. We gave compliments, asked questions and said thank you for spending precious time listening to our readers every week. You make a huge difference!

Me and My Emotions

PSHE, Year 4

We loved exploring, discussing and sharing examples of our emotions with a beautiful Compass Be workshop.

Tennis game, set and match…

PE and Sport, Year 4

We used our skills to play against each other in our final tennis lesson of the year.

Dance for Rights

PE and Sport, Year 4

The Year 4 Ada Lovelace class thoroughly enjoyed their Dance for Rights live lesson with The Royal Ballet. We explored themes of identity, hope, journey and play through an immersive and moving creative experience. We collaborated to perform a piece including group, duet and solo motifs which we danced alongside the experts and other schools.

Year 4 Ada Lovelace visit Skelton Grange

Science, Year 4

What a fantastic day! We explored our science topic of Living Things and their Habitats with an activity packed itinerary including bug hunting and pond dipping

Body, arms, legs and head

PE and Sport, Year 4

We involved every body part in sequencing dance actions for the World Cup dance in class today.