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Year 4
Salutations from Year 4!
Salutations from the teachers and support staff in Year 4. Welcome to the summer term. We hope you are all safe and well during this challenging time.
Below you will find details each day about different home learning tasks to complete. Each day there will be an English or a Maths task and foundation subject task to complete as well as Spellodrome and Mathletics activities. Try to do as much as you can, but do not stress if not everything is completed daily! We hope to see you all soon.
Miss Markham-Randall, Miss Robinson, Mrs Shaw and Mr Preece
Home Learning Tasks
Things to remember:
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Read some of your books.
Complete a reading journal activity (visit this link for a reminder of the different activities you can do). We will be sharing some good examples of work. Excitingly, David Walliams is releasing a free short story to listen to every day - visit Elevenses with The World of David Walliams for more!
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Complete daily tasks (see below for details).
You can take photos of any completed work and email it to us, or complete tasks using Word or PowerPoint and email it to us. Again, we will be sharing some good examples of work. Remember to keep up with your daily task on Spellodrome and Mathletics too!
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Practise your times tables.
Remember to check out Times Table Rock Stars and Hit The Button for help with your times tables. For extra Maths practice, Carol Vorderman has made her website, The Maths Factor, free to use.
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Keep physically active.
If you can, go into your garden for some fresh air, or find a Just Dance video from YouTube and dance. At 9am every day, Joe Wicks is streaming a live PE session - if you missed it, you can catch it at The Body Coach TV YouTube channel!
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Have fun!
- Live animal webcams from zoos around the world
- Science lesson from Maddie and Greg
- Mindfulness meditation for kids
If you want to send us work you've completed, ask questions, or just let us know about what you've been up to, email us at:
- class9@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk
- class10@mestycroft.sandwell.sch.uk
Summer 2 Week 6
Thursday 9th July
Today we have set a Maths task, a Reading Challenge task and a Music task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 29
Maths
Complete the Maths arithmetic test as best you can - try to do the work yourself, but if you are really stuck with something you can ask an adult for help. If you don't have access to a printer, just open up the Word document and either add your answers in with a text box, or write your answers onto a sheet of paper.
Reading
Reading resources
Music
In school during the afternoon we have been watching the movie Inside Out and completing the activity about the emotions and memories. This links to our PSHE work. Below are the sheets if you want to have a go at the activity at home.
Wednesday 8th July
Today we have set an English task, a Reading Challenge task and a Science task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 28
English
English Resources
Examples of Year 4's Fables
Reading Challenge - choose 1 to complete
Science
Oxygen and Burning experiment
Here is the experiment carried out by Miss Markham-Randall. Watch for the results, if you cannot carry out the experiment yourself.
Science Resources
Emily and Harry carrying out the experiment
Tuesday 7th July
Today we have set a Maths task, a Reading Challenge task and a PSHE task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 27
Maths
Complete the Maths reasoning and fluency test as best you can - try to do the work yourself, but if you are really stuck with something you can ask an adult for help. If you don't have access to a printer, just open up the Word document and either add your answers in with a text box, or write your answers onto a sheet of paper.
Reading
Reading resources
PSHE
Examples of Year 4's PSHE work
Monday 6th July
Today we have set an English task, a Reading Challenge task and a History task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 26
English
English Resources
Examples of Year 4's Fable Plans
Reading Challenge
Choose one of the author 10 minute challenges to complete from this website:
History
History Resources
Battle of Trafalgar information
Battle of Waterloo information
World War II information
Examples of Year 4's history work
Summer 2 Week 5
Friday 3rd July
Today we have set an English task, a Maths task and a Computing task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 25
English
English resources
Maths
Maths resources
Examples of Symmetry pictures
Computing
Example of an Internet poster
Examples of children's Computing work
Thursday 2nd July
Today we have set a Maths task, a Reading Challenge task and an Art task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 24
Maths
Pick one of the worksheets to complete (or both if you fancy a challenge!)
Examples of Maths work
Reading
Examples of Reading Challenge work
Art
Examples of Art work
Wednesday 1st July
Today we have set an English task, a Reading Challenge task and a Science task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 23
English
Lesson resources
Animal stereotypes resources
Year 4 examples of work:
Reading Challenge
This year we have read a range of books for our Reading Spine:
What book or books would you recommend to read in Year 5?
It can be a book you have read or would like to read. How will you persuade us to choose your chosen book? You need to give us as much information about the book as you can.
Year 4's recommendations
Science
Science Resources
Examples of Year 4's Science
Tuesday 30th June
Today we have set a Maths task, a Reading Challenge task and an RE task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 22
Maths
Maths resources
Examples of Year 4's Maths work
Reading
Reading resources
Examples of Year 4's Reading Challenge
RE
Examples of Year 4's RE
Monday 29th June
Today we have set an English task, a Reading Challenge task and a Geography task. If you have any questions about the activities please email your teacher who will gladly offer any help. We look forward to reading and sharing your work.
To access all the resources needed for today's lessons, visit our OneDrive: Summer 2 Day 21
English
English Resources
Example features posters
Examples of Year 4's English work
Reading Challenge Resources
Geography
Geography Resources
Diorama Resources
Examples of Geography work
Charlotte, Chloe and Brayden's Coral Reef documentary
Ethan and Thomas' Coral Reef Documentary
Frankee and Katy-Paige Coral Reef Documentary
Olivia G's Geography video
Summer 2 Week 4
Daily Tasks
Summer 2 Week 4 Resources
Summer 2 Week 4 Examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Day 16
Day 17
Day 18
Day 19
Day 20
Summer 2 Week 3
Daily Tasks
Summer 2 Week 3 Resources
School looks and feels very different right now. Here is a short video showing what our day looks like.
Year 4 Bubble - our new normal school day
Miss Markham-Randall's guide to creating a New Normal video using iMovie
Summer 2 Week 3 Examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Day 11
Day 12
Day 13
Day 14
Day 15
Thursday 18th June Assembly
Today in school, we watched a very special assembly from Oak National Academy about kindness from Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
Follow the link to see it for yourself: https://classroom.thenational.academy/assemblies/kindness/
Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cambridge spoke about a photograph competition called Hold Still. Take a look at it here: https://www.npg.org.uk/hold-still/
In School we followed Nick Sharrat's video and drew our own astronauts
Reading Challenge
Summer 2 Week 2
Daily Tasks
Summer 2 Week 2 Resources
Summer 2 Week 2 Examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
Summer 2 Week 1
Across Years 2, 3, 4 and 5, the teachers got together and picked one key-worker child who has really impressed us this week to go in celebration assembly. This week we chose Frankee-Lei! She has really come out of her shell this week, she's answers any question she's asked, and she's had a positive attitude to being back at school. Well done, Frankee-Lei!
Daily Tasks
Summer 2 Week 1 Resources
Summer 2 Week 1 Examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Check out what we've been up to at school!
The children in school did the estimating capacities investigation - have a look at what we found out!
Summer Week 5
Daily Tasks
Summer 1 Week 5 Resources
Summer 1 Week 5 Examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Summer Week 4
Daily Tasks
Summer Week 4 Examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Some of Chloe B's fabulous work in school and at home!
Summer Week 3
Daily tasks
Summer Week 3 Examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Year 4's VE Day celebrations!
Charlotte's VE day PowerPoint
Harry's Reading challenge to Miss Markham-Randall
Hi Miss,
Your challenge is to read a book you wrote! 🤣🤔
Harry
Your challenge is to read a book you wrote! 🤣🤔
Harry
Beau's Reading challenge to Miss Markham-Randall
Beau said your reading challenge is to read a part of any book and video it.....
Miss Robinson taking on some reading challenges!
Phoebe's challenge - read a book with more than 50 pages
Emily's challenge - read a book with a yellow cover
Filip and Ethan's challenge - read a book outside in the sun
Summer Week 2
Daily Tasks
Summer Week 2 resources
Summer Week 2 Examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Summer Week 1
Daily tasks
Summer Week 1 examples of work
Class 9
Class 10
Year 4 Easter Challenge
The Year 4 Easter Challenge - Word Document
Some of the amazing things Year 4 have been up to over Easter!
Some of Year 4's beautiful rainbows! Send us your rainbow to join in the trail!
Lockdown Week 2 tasks
Examples of the children's work can be found here:
Class 9
Class 10
Lockdown Week 1 Tasks
Examples of the children's work can be found here:
Class 9
Class 10
Day 1
Day 2
Spring 2
For history, we explored Viking economics and became traders.Half of the class (those to the north) were Vikings and the other half (those to the south) were Anglo Saxons. The Anglo Saxons led by King Harold (aka Harry) were victorious due to the fact that the Viking traders kept abandoning their King Cnut (aka Spencer) and settling in Britain
In PSHE, we learnt about the Purple 4 Polio event run by the Rotary Club every year. We discussed why this was important, and then created our own Purple 4 Polio posters to stick onto our crocus pots. Here are the Class pots!
In Art, we looked at how to improve our photography, including tips to change exposure, using the rule of thirds, and focusing on our composition. We then went outside to take photos around the field. Can you see our improvements already? 
In Geography, we moved along the Tropic of Cancer to reach our next country - Egypt! We explored some of the human and physical features of Egypt, and then sorted these into categories.
This week, we celebrated World Book Day! On Thursday, we all brought in our favourite books and held a 'book tasting', where we explained why we love our book so much and read part of it our to the people on our tables, to encourage others to read it. Then we took part in a poetry slam, where we performed a poem in front of Year 4 (and filmed it on a green screen to be used in Computing later this half term!)
Spring 1
In Art this week, we've been completing our final pieces on Surrealism. We were allowed to create whatever we wanted, either using pencil, paint or collage! Here are some examples of the work we've made.
In art and design this week we have created some Surrealist collages inspired by Rene Magritte. Below are some examples:
In Computing this week we have begun to explore using the Lego Wedo set to build a Space Rover and program it to move.
In music, we're focusing on the work of the Bee Gees - today we looked at the Disco era, where we discussed features of the music and considered why it was such a popular genre. Below is a poster all about Disco!
Autumn 2
In Geography, we've been tracing the journey of a banana - from plant to our local Morrisons!
In Music, we've been looking closer at some Reggae songs. We created a journal all about Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, and then we became a class choir to sing the song!
RE
The children made Christingles.
A Christingle is made from an orange, red ribbon, four small sticks, dried fruits or sweets and a lit candle.
Christingle means ‘Christ’s Light’.
Art
The children have sketched out their version of one of Dali's pictures.
This is D-Jay's sketch.
DT
The children are starting to design our own moving storybooks using our work on different moving mechanisms - levers and linkage.
This is Charlotte's design.
Autumn 1
In History, we have been finishing off our time in the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages! We drew a map of what a hill top fort looked like during the Iron Age, and summed up everything we've learnt in this half term.
In Science, we've been learning about sound and the human ear. We finished off the topic by answering our Big Question: how can we see sound and feel music? Here are some of Class 10's ideas!
In English, we concluded our work on the Mysteries of Harris Burdick by writing a setting description using noun phrases about some of the different images from his book.
In Class 10 this week, we have been creating stunning works of art using charcoal. Our focus was on light and shadow.
In Geography this half term, we have been focusing on the water cycle and the benefits of water. We created information posters about why it is important to save water!
