Some of our gorgeous children took part in a Para Talent Football Festival this morning! Wow, they had a jam-packed morning filled with so much football, games and shooting! They played 2 vs 2 games, matches and some dribbling and control games ⚽️ We represented St Oz so well ☺️ .
Year 4 have had a great day at Sunderland Museum linked to their geography and science learning. We spent the morning looking at the River Wear, learning all about its history and how the river has been used over the years. After that, we participated in a workshop all about water, thinking about the water cycle and all of the different elements.
As part of our Grouping and Classifying topic in science, year 4 have been looking at how we can ask questions to find out more information, and how we use questions to eliminate certain answers. What better way to explore this than with a game of guess who?! We looked at what questions we could ask, and how we improve our questions strategically to get to the answer quicker!
Year 4 completed their worship challenge around being passionate this week. We thought about what we were passionate about as individuals, and then also thought about what we as a class were passionate about. We talked as a class about how it is important for us to be passionate about our learning, and passionate about our connections and friendships in class.
Year 4 have been looking at different types of mountains as part of their geography learning. We looked at the five mains types and identified the common features of each. We then worked in groups to look at different world mountains, and to see if we could group them into the right categories.
Year 4 had a brilliant virtual lesson today with an author, Jamie Hammond. Jamie told us all about how he is an author and illustrator of ‘Grumpfort, the World’s Worst Monster Hunter’ and what inspired him to write his book. We all took a quiz to see which monster character we would be and even completed a draw along with him to create one of the monsters from his story! We all enjoyed hearing about the story and has inspired lots of us to want to read it! Miss Marley treated us to reading some during our guided reading session today!
As part of our whole school oracy focus, we are beginning to explore linguistics this half term. Year 4 loved their oracy challenge last week around word choice, and enjoyed playing the word association game to help us understand the importance of the words we choose.
Year 4 have loved starting their new science topic, Grouping and Classifying. We started to look at single and multi strand classification, and how we can group and classify objects by asking different questions.
Year 4 loved taking advantage of the spring weather last week, and took the opportunity to take their reading for pleasure into the nature garden. We loved taking our reading books outside and enjoyed reading in the sunshine ☀️
Year 4 have had a great day looking further into character education, with our class focus being centred around friendship. We spent the morning reflecting on our characters, thinking about what made us good friends, and what we would like to develop further in ourselves. We then made a friendship tree, writing on the leaves advice on how to be a good friend. At the end of the morning, we made a friendship circle, passing on positive comments to each other, to show how this can build up self esteem and spread positivity.
