Year 4
Croeso I blwyddyn 4!
A big warm welcome back to school to all of our Year 4 pupils and also to Mr Lewis who joins the Year 4 team. It has been a very busy start to the academic year and we have been impressed with the punctuality of pupils returning to school this term.
Our Wonderful World
Our first topic is a whole school topic and we are excited to share opportunities with the pupils to find out more information about our wonderful world. As a year group we aim to identify how we can make changes to our local environment and already, our year 4 pupils are beginning to spot potential.
Many of our pupils have identified our climate as one of the possible changes!!
We have began to discuss this and locate countries around the world within different climate zones, and over the coming weeks will compare these climates and what we may find there to our own.
Class Elections
This year’s class elections took place on Friday 11th September. Our Year 4 pupils presented fantastic speeches for the following positions (in each class); Class Councillor, Vice Councillor, Criw Cymraeg, and Eco Warrior.
After some fantastic speeches and exceptionally close voting, we can say a massive well done to the following pupils who have secured positions this year. Congratulations!
|
Class |
Role/Responsibility |
Pupil |
|
4H |
Class Councillor |
Ellie M |
|
4H |
Vice Councillor |
Maisie G |
|
4H |
Criw Cymraeg |
Mollie M |
|
4H |
Eco Warrior |
Kenuli W |
|
4L |
Class Councillor |
Rueben |
|
4L |
Vice Councillor |
Taya |
|
4L |
Criw Cymraeg |
Jaden |
|
4L |
Eco Warrior |
Ava |
Year 4 Harvest
Remembrance Day
Thriving Thursdays! Creating man-made wonders based on the 21 finalists from 2007.
What did the Romans Leave Behind?
This term, the topic in Year 4 has been ' What did the Romans Leave Behind?'. We started by identifying what we knew about the Romans, and then created a list of questions that we would like to find out.
What we know | What we want to know |
They built straight roads | What clothes did they wear? What materials? |
They conquered many parts of Britain | What are the Roman Numerals? |
They wore armour and helmets | Where did they come from? |
There was a Roman Empire | What weapons did they use? |
They used letters for numbers | What were their houses like? |
They built the Colosseum | Did they keep pets? |
| How did they make the armour? |
| What language did they speak? |
Year 4 pupils then started to find the answers to their questions. We also welcomed our new class pets into Year 4- Pisces elit (Class fish). Both classes began to learn some Latin phrases that we could use in our everyday speech. 4H found this extremely interesting, as lots of words linked to Languages that are already known, such as Spanish.
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L.O. I can translate and use some Latin words like the Romans.
English | Latin |
Good morning | bonum mane |
Good afternoon | bonum post meridium |
Thank you | gratias |
Hello | Salve |
Goodbye | vale |
No | nihill |
Yes | etiam |
My name is | meum nomen est |
How are you? | Quomodo es? |
Can I go to the toilet? | Possum ad secretum? |
Please | commodo |
What time is it? | Quid temporem est? |
Lunch | prandium |
break | intermissum |
Roman Soldier Bootcamp
Thriving Thursdays- To continue our work with the KS2 Wild area, Year 4 pupils carried out a litter pick of the area. As well as this, the pupils filled our flower beds with top soil and helped to create gravel paths in between the beds. Furthermore, Year 4 pupils began designing a pond that would attract wildlife to the area.
