Year 4

Today, we went on a trip to Greece, Pakistan, China, Wales and India! 

We spoke with people from all of these countries. We learnt how they say hello, what languages they speak, all about their currency, food and famous landmarks. We flew from country to country learning lots of…

As part of our celebration for the Queen's birthday and everything British, we were lucky enough to learn about May Pole dancing and even have a go with the help of Mr Foster. See our great pictures! We had great fun! 

This was shortly followed by a cake sale, of the…

As part of our history topic, we have been learning about rationing during World War 2. Certain foods and clothes were rationed so that there was enough for everybody to get a fair share. People were encouraged to grow their own vegetables and mend old clothes. 

Families adapted…

As a treat for all of those children that stayed on green, amber and above this term we invited Commando Joe into school with all of their blow up equipment. All of the children in year 4 got to take part and had so much fun!! 

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Last week, year 4 were lucky enough to have a visit from Beverly from St John's Ambulance, who taught us what we should do when someone is injured. Each class got to spend 2 hours with her. 

We made a list of all the different emergency services that are ready to help us when there…

This week, the whole school are thinking scientifically. The focus of our scientific thinking is nappies! Today, we started by thinking about what we already know about nappies and then we all had a chance to explore a nappy, a clean one if course! 

we found that they were stretchy, soft…

As part of our topic all about law year 4 visited Manchester Crown Court. 

When end we arrived, we had to go through a metal detector and security checks just like everybody else. We walked through the building where we saw barristers and other people waiting to take part in a…

Last week, St Annes were visited by some fantastic scientists. 

On Thursday morning, year 4 worked with Flammable Faye. Together we used a chemical, paint and PVA glue to make slime. We all had a fantastic morning and couldn't wait to show our slime to our families! 

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On Tuesday, Awali, Daisy and Eljanna along with Miss Whitehead and Mrs Orrell headed to Our Lady's High School to find out the results of the Christmas Card Competition.

All of the primary school teachers and the Head teacher of Our Lady's gave grades for all of the entries on…

Year 4 have been part of a competition run by Our Lady's High School to design their Christmas card, to be sent out this year. Each child in our class, designed a Christmas card and they were shown to 3 chaplains, form Our Lady's. They then, had the tough job of picking only 3 designs. The…

On Monday, we were lucky enough to go on a visit to John Ryland's LIbrary, which was organised for us by Our lady's High School. It is an impressive building that is very old. While we were there, we learnt how to make a book and each of us got to make our very own. 

We…