Year Four have been continuing their topic on Modern Europe this afternoon. Atlases were used to find information about European countries, capital cities and flags. Pupils learned what symbol to look for on a map to find the capital city of a country by using the map’s key. We applied these skills to a card matching task and a Kahoot! quiz where Year Four really showed off their knowledge of European flags! Well done everyone!
Year four have risen to Mrs Smith’s challenge today to design and decorate some Christmas biscuits. First, year four thought about the materials available to them and how they could use these to make a snowman. Then, they planned, made and evaluated the biscuits they made (you can see some of their comments added!). And finally, we are most excited to be eating our beautiful biscuits during our Christmas film afternoon later today! ⛄️⛄️
Year 4 had an amazing Christmas music day! They started it off by listening to a variety of popular Christmas songs and used their listening skills to find common stylistic features. Next they extended their knowledge of musical notation, learning about crotchets, quavers and minims. They even had a go at writing their own graphic scores! In the afternoon, they impressed Mrs Wells and Mrs Pennock with their fabulous compositions using Google Music Lab. Well done Year 4, a fab day had by all!
Year 4 have had an amazing virtual tour with Amazon this morning! Our tour guides took us through the whole process of how we receive our parcels, right from clicking buy on the screen to the delivery at our door. We have really developed our computer science knowledge and grown our vocabulary too. It was so interesting to see the factories in action, maybe one day one of us might choose a career in STEM just like this.
After an exciting afternoon swimming on Monday, Year 4 enjoyed continuing to learn about Spain this afternoon for Miles Away Monday. The children made mosaics inspired by the work of Spanish artist and architect Antoni Gaudi, using bright colours and creating amazing animals.
Year 4 had a go at creating these mosaics both practically and digitally, and created beautiful work through both mediums! Well done Year 4. 
Year 4 continued their learning about climate change yesterday. They watched a video of Greta Thunberg talking about why climate change is so important – we then made lots of interesting links between the sources and consequences of climate change. Year 4 thought that electric cars and less international travel would be really helpful to stop the ice-caps melting and the sea levels rising. They were very passionate about this as they realised higher sea levels would make it difficult to live in areas near the sea, such as South Shields and along the tidal River Tyne! The class came up with loads of great ideas about what we can do at St. Oswald’s to help stop climate change. These were written up into very informative blog posts!
Year 4 have had a brilliant morning with Anne from Groundwork’s, thinking about how litter contributes to climate change. Our session started off with a discussion in class about why litter picking is important and then we went out in the local area and carried out our own litter pick. We were gobsmacked with the amount of litter we collected, in such as short space of time and in a very small area too. Once back in class we tallied up our totals and then thought about the impact that we have had on the environment today. To finish our session, we talked about the little changes we can make as well as litter picking, in order to take care of our planet.
Year 4 worked really hard learning about statistics yesterday. The class were really keen to learn how to read data and have a go at making their own charts! Some of us even utilised our new concrete maths resources to help us solve problems 😆
Year 4 are loving their Science topic of States of Matter. Today they have worked scientifically, looking at gases around us. They investigated why an empty bottle squashes much more easily when the lid isn’t on. Why a sponge releases bubbles in the water when it is compressed. Whether a balloon weighs more when it is blown up and what happens when we put a scent on a tissue and move it to a different place in the room. Some amazing, scientific vocabulary was used and Mrs Pennock and Mrs Wells were so impressed with the detailed explanations and reasons given. Well done Year 4!
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