Year 4
Welcome to Year 4!
Hello and a warm welcome to Year 4’s page.
We hope your children will have a fantastic year with us in year 4. We will be exploring lots of fantastic and engaging topics such as Ancient Egyptians, Rochdale Pioneers and Knights, Castles and Dragons.
Useful Reminders:
Reading books to be brought in every day and can be changed every day.
Monday:
Grammar homework sent out to be returned on Thursday
Thursday:
Swimming morning – Bring swimming kit. Maths homework to be given out and returned on Monday.
Friday:
P.E. day – come to school in PE kit. Times tables test

Mrs J O'Malley
Class Teacher

Mrs R Mushtaq
Teaching Assistant

Mrs S Ahmed
Teaching Assistant
Knowledge Organisers
Science Knowledge Organisers
RE Knowledge Organisers
Class Blog
Easter Egg Competition Winners
Congratulations to our winners of our Easter Egg Competition. Everybody produced some fantastic designs. Well done to Aiyla and Kaiya!
Wonderful Weaving!
We learnt about how weavers made Cotton in the18 hundreds and how Rochdale was famous for it's cotton mills. We enjoyed producing our own weaving.
Town Hall Trip!
We had a brilliant time visiting the amazing Town Hall. We loved seeing the stained glass windows, the huge staircase inside and all the different rooms. We were taken back in time to 1866 when Rochdale was famous for the cotton mills and we looked at what it would be...
World Book Day Parade
Key Stage 1 and 2 met in the hall this morning to parade in our costumes. We all came dressed as adjectives. There were some fantastic costumes and some brilliant vocabulary shared. Thank you everyone for all your effort.
World Book Day
We had lots of fun dressing up as an adjective for World Book Day!
Paper molas
We have been experimenting with the collage techniques of overlaying and underlaying to create our own molas out of paper.
Experimenting with watercolour paints
We have been exploring different techniques using watercolour paints to paint different fruits
Frida Khalo
As part of our Art lessons, we replicated work by Frida Kahlo and created our own self-portraits
Measuring temperature
On a cold winters day, we investigated temperature and how it can be measured using thermometers. We measured the temperature of the corridor, our partners forehead and went outside and measured the temperature of a puddle on the playground which was 1 degree Celsius!
Observing changes of state
As part of our changes of state work in Science, we observed some frozen hands over the period of the day. Some of the hands melted quicker than others and we discussed why we thought that happened.
Scrumptious sweet tasting!
As part of developing our own sweets/chocolates in the style of Willy Wonka's chocolates we had lots of fun tasting different sweets and chocolates to gather lots of vocabulary.
Scribblers!
We had lots of fun building our scribbler robots and adapting them to change and improve them.










