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Litter picking competition!
Well done to Y3/4 and Y4 for going head to head this afternoon to see who could collect the most litter - the winners will be announced on Monday...
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 2 December 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Creating simple electrical circuits!
Today year 4 started to create simple electrical circuits using 2 wires, a bulb and a battery. Their task was to try and make the bulb light up...which they did! Next week, we will start to explore switches and create more circuits!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 1 December 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Making our sprites move on Scratch!
Today we continued working on our online educational games on Scratch. We used coding to instruct our computers to make our sprites move up, down, left and right!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 30 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
TT Club in action!
Well done to everyone who came to times table club today, some epic battles took place!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 25 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Class Mass
Year 4 had their class mass this morning with the theme of 'Friendship is a Gift'. Well done Year 4, you did a great job!!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 25 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Creating a sprite and backdrop for our online educational games!
Today we used Scratch to start creating our own online educational game. We created a sprite and edited it using the costume tab. We also selected a backdrop to suit our chosen theme. We then decided on a name for our game. Next week we will work on getting our sprites to move!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 23 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Class Liturgy - Theme: Save the Animals!
Well done to James, Joseph and Patryk who did a wonderful liturgy for the class this afternoon with the theme - save the animals! This included a piece of scripture called Noah's Ark, a prayer to help save animals as well as a quiz on how we can protect them!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 11 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Learning more Spanish!
Today Year 4 learnt how to introduce someone, to ask how someone is, the names of animals, the names of colours and classroom phrases in Spanish!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 8 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
TT club in action!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 4 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Playing and analysing online educational games!
Today we started to play and analyse online educational games so that we can find out which features make them successful. We can then use this knowledge to help us create our own online educational game on Scratch!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 3 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Analysing artifacts from Ancient Civilisations!
Today the children analysed artifacts from Ancient Civilisations - Sumer, Indus Valley and Shang Dynasty. They had to decide who they thought it belonged to, what it was and what achievement it represented...
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 2 November 2022
Category: Year 4/5D
Our first Spanish lesson!
Today year 4 welcomed Eva, their new Spanish teacher! They had plenty of questions and can't wait to start learning more Spanish after half term!
Posted by /blog/author/gdineen/page:24 on 18 October 2022
Category: Year 4/5D