Blog by Tag: Year 4

Year 4 had a fabulous time at Whinlatter Forest exploring the natural habitat of lots of different organisms. They enjoyed finding examples of plants and animals that they have been learning about in science and using lots of scientific vocabulary. 
 

A small selection of our Year 3 & 4 children represented St Bridget’s in a Dodgeball tournament at St Bees School today. There were about ten local schools taking part. They enjoyed the many varied activities. 
 

KS2 had a fantastic time on their end of year trip in the Lost Fort at Lowther Castle.

We all had a great time at the County School Games competing in in the tri-golf section. All the children enjoyed all the different challenges at each station and they all came home with a medal!

KS2 children have enjoyed learning how to play rounders in our after school club. They have learnt batting and fielding skills and all enjoyed playing lots of matches.

Y4 have had a wonderful day celebrating our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. They created collage portraits of the Queen and then they joined with the rest of the school to enjoy a traditional street party with ice-cream, picnic and music and dancing on the yard.

Our first Forest Schools Taster session was held for Years 3 and 4.  After learning the rules for Forest school, ‘Be safe, be kind,’ the children were set the challenge of designing a flag or emblem that represents what makes our School so special.  The only resources allowed were anything that…

Year 4 are using Logo to learn how to use a text based coding language to control an onscreen turtle to create mathematical patterns. Today they have been learning the common instructions using the Logo programming language to create shapes. 
 

Year 4 enjoyed exploring the new Castle in the warm Spring sunshine.

Our spellings this week are the soft /c/ spelt ‘ci’ and one of our spellings is ‘cinnamon’ so we decided to make some cinnamon toast with one of our spellings. We agreed it’s good to try new things and although some of us were reluctant at first to try cinnamon, we discovered that we quite like…

Year 4 enjoyed immersing themselves in the wonderful world of books today. They watched and listened to well known authors in a live broadcast, listened to the very first World Book Day Rap and tried to spot all the books that were referred to, they enjoyed sharing a book with someone, they wrote…

⚡️ ⚡️ Year 4 have been learning about electricity. ⚡️⚡️
They have learned all about how electricity is generated, including sustainable sources, and what is is used for. They have drawn diagrams to illustrate how to create an electrical circuit using symbols and scientific vocabulary. They have…