Year 4

Champions' Leaderboard Summer Week 10

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Evan Cantwell (2660 points), second place - Eleanor Burkert (2060 points), third place - Benjamin Ajene (1060 points), fourth place - Bobby Shirley (1050 points) and fifth place - Rhianna Bates (600 points)

Mathletics: First place - Evan Cantwell (2600 points), second place - Bobby Shirley (2152 points), third place - Eleanor Burkert (2000 points), fourth place - Benjamin Ajene (1050 points) and fifth place - Harry Brooks (1020 points)

Well done everyone - lovely to see some new names in the top 5 as well!

Champions' Leaderboard Summer Week 9

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Evan Cantwell (3010 points), second place - Benjamin Ajene (2050 points), third place - Eleanor Burkert (2010 points), fourth place - Scarlet Williams (1785 points) and fifth place - Faith Goodwin (620 points)

Mathletics: First place - Evan Cantwell (3040 points), second place - Benjamin Ajene (2500 points), third place - Eleanor Burkert (2300 points), fourth place - Stephen Oyelowo (1290 points) and fifth place - Harry Brooks (1040 points)

Lovely to see some new names at the top of the leaderboard, well done!

Champions' Leaderboard Summer Week 8

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Evan Cantwell (2020 points), second place - Eleanor Burkert (2010 points), third place - Stephen Oyelowo (1215 points), fourth place - Ava Beckett (1000 points) and fifth place - Scarlet Williams (920 points)

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo (2487 points), second place - Eleanor Burkert (2210 points), third place - Evan Cantwell (2030 points), fourth place - Joseph Duggan (1839 points) and fifth place - Ivan Stone (1262 points)

Well done everyone!

Champions' Leaderboard Summer Week 7

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2120 points), second place - Evan Cantwell (1620 points), third place - Olivia Magill (900 points), fourth place - Benjamin Ajene (690 points) and fifth place - Ryan Gibbs (680 points)

Mathletics: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2060 points), second place - Evan Cantwell (1730 points), third place - Joshua Starling (1701 points), fourth place - James Doyle (963 points) and fifth place - Joseph Duggan (820 points)

Well done to all of those children, keep up the hard work!

Champions' Leaderboard Summer Week 4

The results of this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Scarlet Williams (3280 points), second place - Ava Beckett (2070 points), third place - Eleanor Burkert (2000 points), fourth place - Millie Culshaw (900 points) and fifth place - Evan Cantwell (730 points)

Mathletics: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2270 points), second place - Scarlet Williams (2090 points), third place - Ava Beckett (1236 points), fourth place - Kole Ademuyiwa (1210 points) and fifth place - Stephen Oyelowo (1000 points)

Home reading (so far this term): First place - Rhianna Bates (28), second place - Evan Cantwell (24), third place - Zach Hogan (22), fourth place - Max Hogan (21) and fifth place - Eleanor Burkert (20)

Well done to all of those children, keep up the hard work!

Champions' Leaderboard Summer Week 3

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2020 points), second place - Erica Woosey (1200 points), third place - James Doyle (1000 points), fourth place - Ben Ashton (820 points) and fifth place - Jaime-Leigh (805 points)

Mathletics: First place - James Doyle (3049 points), second place - Evan Cantwell (2070 points), third place - Eleanor Burkert (2049 points), fourth place - Joseph Duggan (1481 points) and fifth place - Rhianna Bates (1460 points)

Well done everyone!

Champions' Leaderboard Summer Week 2

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2040 points), second place - James Doyle (1100 points), third place - Joshua Starling (1000 points), fourth place - Bobby Shirley (780 points) and fifth place - Olivia Magill (760 points)

Mathletics: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2159 points), second place - Bobby Shirley (2119 points), third place - Joshua Starling (2071 points), fourth place - James Doyle (1546 points) and fifth place - Olivia Magill (968 points)

Home reading: First place - Rhianna Bates (14), second place - Evan Cantwell (10), third place - Joseph (10), fourth place - Max Hogan (9) and fifth place - Zach Hogan (9)

Well done to all of those children and lovely to see some different names at the top of the leaderboard!

Champions' Leaderboard Summer Week 1

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2020 points), second place - Olivia Magill (1300 points), third place - Stephen Oyelowo (1000 points), fourth place - Erica Woosey (1000 points) and fifth place - Scarlet Williams (720 points)

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo (2800 points), second place - Scarlet Williams (2572 points), third place - Eleanor Burkert (2040 points), fourth place - Olivia Magill (1603 points) and fifth place - Evan Cantwell (1570 points)

Well done to all of those children!

Home Reading Champions!

Well done to Zach, Max and Evan for being our Spring term Home Reading Champions! Zach and Max read 81 times in Spring term and Evan came a close third with 76 home reads. Well done boys!

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 12

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - John James Foster (3240 points), Scarlet Williams (1870 points), third place - Olivia Magill (1530 points), fourth place - Ryan Gibbs (1435 points) and joint fifth place - Kole Ademuyiwa, Eleanor Burkert and Stephen Oyelowo (1000 points)

Mathletics: First place - Scarlet Williams (2552 points), second place - Stephen Oyelowo (2000 points), third place - Olivia Magill (1532 points), fourth place - John James Foster (1240 points) and fifth place - Eleanor Burkert (1064 points)

Well done to all of those children!

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 11

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Olivia Magill (2150 points), second place - Eleanor Burkert (2000 points), third place - Evan Cantwell (1050 points), fourth place - Erica Woosey (1000 points), fifth place - Joseph Duggan (670 points)

Mathletics: First place - Olivia Magill (3010 points), second place - Eleanor Burkert (2043 points), third place - Joshua Starling (1500 points), fourth place - Evan Cantwell (1090 points) and fifth place - Erica Woosey (1014 points)

Well done everyone!

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 10

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Andrew Freeman (3480 points), second place - Ava Beckett (2550 points), third place - Bobby Shirley (2180 points), fourth place - Millie Culshaw (2110 points) and fifth place - Eleanor Burkert (2000 points)

Mathletics: First place - Andrew Freeman (2246 points), second place - Eleanor Burkert (2060 points), third place - Evan Cantwell (1400 points), fourth place - Millie Culshaw (1200 points) and fifth place - Erica Woosey (1090 points)

How lovely to see some new names in the top five! Keep up the hard work everyone!

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 9

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Home reading (27 reads minimum): First place - Zach Hogan (60 reads), second place - Max Hogan (60 reads), third place - Evan Cantwell (55 reads), fourth place - Eleanor Burkert (48 reads) and fifth place - Rhianna Bates (44 reads)

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2010 points), second place - Scarlet Williams (1080 points), third place - Olivia Magill (1055 points), fourth place - Erica Woosey (1000 points) and fifth place - Joshua Starling (900 points)

Mathletics: First place - Eleanor Burkert (2002 points), second place - Scarlet Williams (1150 points), third place - James Doyle (1013 points), fourth place - Joseph Duggan (999 points) and fifth place - Benjamin Ajene (905 points)

Maya Folktale Storytelling

We have been learning the Maya folktale, the Chocolate Tree. As part of this, we made story maps to help us remember and tell the story. We went to YR this afternoon and shared our stories with the children. What a lovely time we had!

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 8

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert, second place - Olivia Magill and third place - Rhianna Bates

Mathletics: First place - Eleanor Burkert, second place - Stephen Oyelowo and third place - Ruby Reney-Smith

Well done everyone!

ESafety Week

This week our focus has been all about ESafety and consent. We looked at different situations where you should be asked to give consent both online and offline. We thought about how it feels if someone shares personal information without being asked and how we can deal with these sorts of situations. Everyone then wrote a pledge to say how the week's lessons had changed their understanding and what they would do in the future.

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 5

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Andrew Freeman, second place - Eleanor Burkert and third place - Olivia Magill

Mathletics: First place - Scarlet Williams, second place - James Doyle and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Well done to all of those children!

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 4

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert, second place - Evan Cantwell and third place - Scarlet Williams

Mathletics: First place - Scarlet Williams, second place - Zach Hogan and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Well done everyone!

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 3

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Ava Beckett, second place - Kole Ademuyiwa and third place - John James Foster

Mathletics: First place - James Doyle, second place - Scarlet Williams and third place - Kole Ademuyiwa

Well done everyone and how lovely to see some new names at the top! Keep up the hard work!

Science Week

After a fascinating assembly led by Mr Cleaver, Year 4 have had a fantastic time during Science week. On Monday we did an in-depth look into air pollution. We learnt what air pollution is and that we can't always see it, but that it is always around us. We also learnt that it can directly effect our health, bringing on conditions such as asthma and it can effect children's development. We discussed the main causes of air pollution and did an experiment which focused on the air pollution that vehicles cause, determining that busy roads would have more air pollution than parks. Then we began to discuss solutions and played a game of Top Trumps with different possible solution cards for how to reduce the number of vehicles on the road. On Tuesday, we followed this up by writing a letter to the Metro Mayor of Liverpool to try and persuade him to look more closely at the problem of air pollution and to consider our suggestions for solutions. On Tuesday, we also attended the Sublime Science workshop where we saw lots of different scientific principles in practice. There were lots of WOW moments that made both the children and adults gasp! On Thursday, we had a visit from Zoolab where we got to learn about all sorts of different creatures and hold quite a few! We've also conducted some stand alone experiments with Miss Hopewell and Mrs Maddock. See below for photographs and further details of what we've done.

Y4 did a fantastic experiment and learnt a little bit about pressure too! The task involved carefully breaking the egg so that the yolk and white didn't mix. Then gently squeezing some air out of the bottle to place on top of the yolk. Gently loosening the grip on the bottle, we then had the challenge of moving the yolk only to another plate. We learnt that when you squeeze the bottle initially you push some of the air out. When you put the bottle top over the yolk this seals the remaining air in. As you release your grip

the bottle expands and returns to its normal size but no more air can rush in, as the yolk is in the way. This means you’ve got the same amount of air in a bigger space so the pressure will be lower. As the pressure outside of the bottle is higher, it’s this higher air pressure that pushes the yolk into the bottle!

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 2

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert, second place - Evan Cantwell and third place - John James Foster

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - James Doyle and third place - Kole Ademuyiwa

Well done!

Maya archaeologist visit

This week we were extremely fortunate to receive a visit from the Maya archaeologist, Dr Diane Davies. She is the only archaeologist in the whole of the UK who specialises in the Maya. In fact, she spends several months every year working in the rainforest in Guatemala digging on Maya sites. We had a fascinating morning learning what archaeologists do and what it's like working in the rainforest. We also learnt some amazing things about the Maya civilisation, like the fact that they invented chocolate! We got to examine an incredible range of Maya artefacts and investigate what they were used for, what they were made from and who they might have belonged to. Finally, we learnt the Maya number system and how their calendar worked, making our own Maya calendars. What a fantastic morning!

Pyramid Paintings

As part of our work on Ancient Egypt, we have been painting pictures of the pyramids at sunset. We started by reviewing how to mix colours and we learnt how to make shades and tints of red and orange. We then used the colours we had made to create the background sunset for our pictures, before painting on the silhouette of the pyramids.

Champions' Leaderboard Spring Week 1

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spelldrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert, second place - Stephen Oyelowo and third place - John James Foster

Mathletics: First place - Joshua Starling, second place - Stephen Oyelowo and third place - Max Wilson

Well done to all of those children. How lovely to see some new names at the top of the leaderboard!

Home Reading Champions!

The target number for home reads this term was 42 (averaging 3 reads per week).

In first place is Max Hogan with 98 home reads! In second place is Zach Hogan with 97 home reads! In third place is Eleanor Burkert with 81 home reads! What an amazing amount of home reading!

Well done to those three children and well done also to Benjamin Ajene, Ben Ashton, Rhianna Bates, Ryan Gibbs, Sadie Kilmurry, Joshua Starling, Max Wilson and Erica Woosey, who all achieved the target number of home reads or even higher.

Y4/5/6 Christmas play 18th December

Our Christmas play is fast approaching! Here are all of our songs, so that you can get practising at home.

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 14

This week's results are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Eleanor Burkert and third place - Evan Cantwell

Mathletics: First place - Joshua Starling, second place - Stephen Oyelowo and third place - Bobby Shirley

Well done and keep up the healthy competition!

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 13

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Andrew Freeman and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - James Doyle and third place - Joshua Starling

Well done to all of those children!

Year 4 visit to the World Museum

On the 14th of November, we visited the World Museum to learn more about the Ancient Egyptians. We met a real-life archaeologist, much to the delight of the children! They were thrilled to be able to handle ancient Egyptian artefacts and the archaeologist was most complimentary about our children.

Following that session, we spent time examining other exhibits from all four corners of the world and the children had the opportunity to try on costumes.

After lunch, it was time to "Meet the Mummy!" Three of the children dressed up and assisted in the removal of the vital organs, before the whole class helped to bandage the body. This was met with several fits of giggles, as well as quite a few "yucks!" It was a good time had by all!

Champions' Leaderboard Week 12

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Sadie Kilmurry and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Sadie Kilmurry and third place - Bobby Shirley

Home reading (so far this term): First place - Max Hogan, second place - Zach Hogan and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Well done to all of those children!

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 11

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert, second place - Stephen Oyelowo and third place - Andrew Freeman

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Bobby Shirley and third place - James Doyle

Well done to all of those children!

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 10

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Eleanor Burkert and third place - Joshua Starling

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Bobby Shirley and third place - Joshua Starling

Home reading (so far this term): First place - Max Hogan, second place - Zach Hogan and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Well done to all of those children and thank you to parents/carers for your support with homework and home reading. A special well done to those families who ensured their children still read over the holidays!

Shape, space and measure

Looking forward to being back at school - hope you've all had a lovely break

For Shape, Space and Measure this term we will be learning about perimeter and converting units.

Challenge: Can you learn these measurement conversions that will help you in Maths?

1 kilometre (km) = 1000 metres (m)

1 metre (m) = 100 centimetres (cm)

1 centimetre (cm) = 10 millimetres (mm)

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 7 and 8

The leaderboard results for the week before half-term are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Andrew Freeman and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Scarlet Williams and third place - James Doyle

Well done to all of those children! As per my letter before the holidays, there will not be any homework set on Mathletics and Spellodrome this week due to our Ancient Egypt project.

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 6

The results for this week's leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Bobby Shirley and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Max Hogan and third place - Scarlet Williams

Home reading (so far this term): First place - Max Hogan, second place - Zach Hogan and third place - Evan Cantwell

Well done to all of those children, keep up the hard work!

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 5

The results for this week's Champions Leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Ryan Gibbs and third place - Eleanor Burkert

Mathletics: First place - Stephen Oyelowo, second place - Scarlet Williams and third place - James Doyle

Well done to all of those children!

Disabled artists week

This week we have been learning about the challenges disabled artists face. In Year 4 we have focused on the foot and mouth artist, Peter Longstaff. Unfortunately, Peter was born without arms due to his mother being treated with a medicine called thalidomide during her pregnancy. However, Peter has never let it hold him back and uses his right foot as we would use our right hand (or left if you are left-handed!). In fact, for twenty years he was a pig farmer, doing all the jobs required using his feet, including driving a tractor! When pig farming became more financially difficult, he left the career and turned to his hobby of art, finding that he was actually really talented. He now works for the MFPA (the UK Mouth and Foot Painting Artists) designing Christmas cards. He also produces lots of pieces of art focusing on nature, as he loves the beauty of nature. It is this focus which we have used in our paintings, first attempting to paint the inside of a flower outline using our mouths to control the paintbrush. Then we sketched our own flowers and painted them using our hands, a task all of the children found much easier than the first one! See below for pictures of some of the art we produced.

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 4

The results for this week's Champions Leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert, second place - Scarlet Williams and third place - James Doyle

Mathletics: First place - James Doyle, second place - Scarlet Williams and third place - Stephen Oyelowo

Home reading (so far this term): Joint first place - Zach and Max Hogan, second place - Evan Cantwell and joint third place - Ben Ashton, Ruby Reney-Smith and Rhianna Bates.

Well done everyone, keep up the hard work! Prizes will be given to the top three home readers at the end of Autumn term.

Champions' Leaderboard Autumn Week 3

The results for this week's Champions Leaderboard are as follows:

Spellodrome: First place - Eleanor Burkert, second place - Olivia Carter and third place - Evan Cantwell

Mathletics: First place - James Doyle, second place - Joshua Starling and third place - Stephen Oyelowo

Well done to all of those children!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to the start of a new year! It is lovely to have our new class with us in Year 4. We have a lot to look forward to this term, especially learning all about the Ancient Egyptians and starting our brass instrument lessons.  Please read our class newsletter below for dates of this year's trips and an explanation of the structure and routines in Year 4. We look forward to seeing you all at the 'Meet the teacher' meeting on Monday 17th of September. Please note there are two sessions available to attend, 3:15-4pm or 4:15-5pm, so we hope to see you all there!