Y4: Gallery
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 4:54pm
Today, the children have participated in an assembly all about World Religion Day.
They have listened to some Learning Clips about different religions across the world.
Then, we talked about the similarities in the religions - with love and care being a central theme to all religions.
The Christmas Story ... Knock Knock
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 12:18pm
Today, Reverend Chris came to re-tell The Christmas Story to the children.
He re-told the story in the form of 'Knock Knock' - and he acted out all the characters in the story. All the children found it entertaining and it certainly was a different way to re-tell the Christmas Story.
His assembly was finished with a prayer of reflection.
Date: 1st Dec 2023 @ 11:51am
Date: 23rd Nov 2023 @ 3:27pm
Today, Years 1 to 6 have participated in Inter Faith Week Assembly.
Inter Faith Week occurs every November (for 8 days following Rememberance Sunday). The children have thought and reflected on:-
* Friendships amongst different faiths - what this means and how they could be a better friend.
* Social and Community Action Projects - the children watched a video about the creation of the Watford Peace Garden.
In conjuction with the Rights Respecting Team and Miss Evans, the children have been asked to think about:-
What could we do as a school to make to make our community a better place for people of all faiths and religions?
The children have been asked to send their ideas to Miss Evans and the RRS Team before Monday 11th December, 2023.
Y3 and Y4 Diversity Education Workshop
Date: 22nd Nov 2023 @ 12:19pm
This morning, year 3 and Y4 have participated in a Diveristy Workshop - organised by the charity Diversity Role Models.
The children have thought about :-
* What is diversity?
* What is bullying?
* A family is ...
* Different types of families
* What is identity?
* Our unique identity
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 3:11pm
Football Club
Year 4 and 3 football after school club was made even better this week by the addition of some extra coaches from year 6. The Y6 coaches were great role models and coach Laura and Miss Evans have spoken to me about how proud they are. Hopefully, the boys can help train the next footballing superstar!
Well done boys and keep it up!
Mr Leather
Date: 26th Apr 2023 @ 11:14am
Our Scholastic book fair raised £381.11 for school. We can now use this money to buy some new books for our school library. Our reading ambassadors asked their classes about the types of books that they would like. During our meeting today we shared ideas, searched the Scholastic website to find exciting, new books and completed an order form.
We look forward to reading the new books once they arrive.
Date: 6th Mar 2023 @ 4:02pm
WORLD BOOK DAY
The children in Year 4 had a great world book day! Their outfits were amazing and they produced some lovely work.
Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 2:24pm
Tom Palmer visited Lyme today.
Tom is an award winning author and has sold over half a million books. He met with Year 5 and 6 today to answer their questions and tell them all about how he became an author. Tom even did a book signing session and lots of children have started to read his books already.
Thank you Tom for inspiring us to read and write our own stories.
Date: 21st Feb 2023 @ 4:27pm
Today, Year 4 got on a coach and travelled to Liverpool.
During our morning session, the children were taught all about how the River Mersey was used by people and how it enabled Liverpool to grow into such a massive city. We discussed how goods were transported by sailing ships and eventually huge cargo ships, and also discussed what types of cargo used to come in and out of the city using the river. We found that all sorts of goods were brought into the city from exotic animals like parrots and monkeys to china plates, tea and wool.
After a quick 30 minutes for lunch, we marched across Liverpool to the World Museum. Here, we looked into one of our upcoming topics... The Egyptians. Our guide talked about how Egyptians mummified each other after they'd died. We even performed a mummification ceremony! (It wasn't for the faint-hearted!) As we were doing this, our guide explained about the importance of different Egyptian gods and Egyptian hierarchy within the process.
As a staff, we were all extremely proud of the behaviour of year 4 and the manner in which they conducted themselves around the museums and through Liverpool itself. The children had an excellent time and seemed to enjoy the gory details of mummification in particularly!
Date: 18th Jan 2023 @ 10:55am
In our reading ambassador meeting today we made plans for National Storytelling Week which will be held on the week beginning Monday 30th January. The children shared why stories and storytelling is important. They came up with ideas of events that we could do to promote a love of reading and storytelling. The ambassadors are planning to hold a whole school assembly, will be visiting classes to tell stories and they will even be telling stories on the playground at playtimes!
Date: 12th Dec 2022 @ 8:43am
Timestable Chatter Boxes
During year 4, the children must learn all of their timestables from the ones to the twelves. We are always thinking of creative ways to do this from board games, whole class games, bingo, songs, rhymes and now, we have decided to make timestable chatterboxes. The children followed the instructions that were given to them very carefully and created some lovely chatterboxes. After this, each child listed down the eight multiplication facts that they struggle with most and wrote them on. Now, all that was left was to play and practise!
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 9:21am
Electrical Circuits
Today, Y4 have been investigating to see whether materials are a conductor or an insulator. We used knowledge that we have been taught from previous lessons about complete and incomplete circuits to create a suitable investigation.
Children discovered that if they made a complete circuit and checked the lightbulb worked that would prove that the electricity was able to flow around the circuit. They decided that they would need to create a gap and then put different materials in the gap to see if they would allow electricity to pass through them.
The children made predictions first of all as to which materials would be conductors and which would be insulators, Then, they tested them! They absoloutley loved testing the materials and seeing whether the light bulbs lit up or not!
Date: 15th Nov 2022 @ 3:34pm
Viking Gary
Today, the children were amazed to discover that they had a visit from a real-life Viking!
Viking Gary had set out a display of all his Viking artefacts and collectables. During the morning session, we learnt about how Vikings lived, where they came from and why they travelled to England, what they believed in, how they made many of their tools and how they fought!
After lunchtime, the children had four different tasks to do! The first one was to study the ancient artefacts and answer questions about them. The second activity was to create a Viking oil lamp out of clay. The third, we created and played a Viking board game and lastly, we learnt how to fight like a Viking! (As you can see from our pictures!)
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 4:37pm
Tongan Rugby Team Visit
Some of our students had the fantastic oppurtunity today to meet some professional Tongan rugby league players. These players will be representing Tonga in the rugby league world cup. Their first match is on Tuesday 18th October so we are very lucky that they have taken time out of their busy schedule to come and visit us.
The children were very excited and got to ask the players lots of questions. At the end of the session, the players signed posters for the children and got photographs taken with them!
We'd like to thank the players once again. The children loved it!
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 8:53am
Timetable Battleships!!!
In year 4, we focus a lot throughout the year on timetables as at the end of this year we need to know all of them from 1x1 to 12x12. We're always looking at different and fun ways of learning and practising them.
The children had a great time playing battleships and have asked to play it again soon!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Chocolate tasting!
Date: 9th Sep 2022 @ 4:09pm
Chocolate Tasting!
Today, Year 4 created their own chocolate bars! We decided the best way to do this was to research how our favourite chocolate bars tasted. After every kind of chocolate bar, we discussed how they tasted and how they felt in our mouths... did they melt? pop? crunch? etc. We collected all of the describing words on the board to use later!
After this, we looked at the wrappers for our favourite chocolate bars and discussed how they were designed and what they have in common. We then designed our own chocolate bars using some our describing words and what we had learnt from our research.
The children seemed to enjoy the lesson!
Date: 27th Jun 2022 @ 9:36am
Date: 22nd Jun 2022 @ 4:59pm
At Starbooks this afternoon Year 4 enjoyed talking about the pictures in the wordless story 'FLOTSAM' by David Wiesner. Flotsam is a book about a young boy who stumbles across a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera as he is collecting flotsam that has been washed ashore.
We looked at the pictures to music and discussed what was happening in them. Using a page of the story as inspiration of our artwork we created fish collages using recycled materials. We use plastic bags, bottle tops and cotton buds - things that sometimes end up in our seas and oceans.
Sports Week 2022 - RACE FOR LIFE!
Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 3:51pm
SPORTS WEEK 2022
This week has been Lyme's sports week!
During the week, the children were exposed to a few sports that they may not have chance to play outside of school. One of the sports the children played was Ultimate (Ultimate Frisbee). The children loved the fast pace of the game and how they have to work as a team to get the frisbee over the line! Another sport was Orienteering. This sport was the polar opposite to ultimate frisbee. Children had to use maps to navigate around the school grounds and find a number of markers. When they found a marker, they would stamp the special pattern onto their sheet. When all of the markers had been found, the children returned to their teacher. Lastly, KS1 were introduced to Boccia. This is a game similar to bowls. However, it is played sitting down. This game is played in the paralympics at an international level. The children enjoyed the game and loved trying to get their balls as close as they could to the marker.
On Monday, Year 6 played at a football tournament were top goal scorers in the entire tournament. Unfortunately, they were knocked out on penalties in the semi-finals. This doesn't reflect how one-sided the semi-final actually was. Lyme hit the post and bar several times but again, unfortunately, luck wasn't on their side. I would like to congratulate Year 6 on their effort during the tournament and in particularly their behaviour which was fantastic throughout.
On Wednesday, we had a visit from Tara Jones and Katie Mottershead who both play for Saints women's team. Tara is also an England international and is in the squad again to play France tomorrow (on Skysports Arena, 18th June at 5.30pm). Tara and Katie were inspiring and a lot of the children were lucky enough to get their picture taken with the pair.
Lastly, the whole school took part in the race for life today. Each pupil has trained all week to perform this race and they should all be so proud. Every child that completed the race received a medal for their hard work.
Congratulations to everyone on a fantastic sport's week. We hope you enjoyed it!
Date: 17th May 2022 @ 11:48am
Time Board Games!
Today, year 4 have been revising how to tell the time in 5 minute intervals. This is a year 3 objective but it is always worth recapping it to make sure we have a solid understanding!
We decided to do this by playing a telling the time board game! The children loved playing this game and learnt a lot from it!
Our Eco Action team have been busy again!
Date: 28th Apr 2022 @ 12:19pm
Representatives from our Eco Action team met after school this week to continue with the litter pick they started before the holidays - this included the entrance to Lyme Park too. They will be meeting again next week to weed the planters and to set up a mini greenhouse to grow tomatoes in.
Have a look at the photos of our beautiful planters - the fruit trees we planted last year are doing well and are covered in blossom!
Date: 1st Apr 2022 @ 9:16am
Year 4 enjoyed 30 minutes of quiet reading this morning to raise money for the Red Cross Ukrainian Appeal Fund.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:45pm
Today our amazing reading ambassadors supported reading events across the school. Our Year 1 and 2 children visited foundation stage to join in story and library time.
Our Y3, 4 and 5 children supported events in Key Stage 1 and lower key stage 2.
Our Y6 children helped to set up the story spoon competition and delivered the certificates and prizes to the classes.
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 1:30pm
Wow! What an amazing response we had to our story spoon competition. Here are some photos of the fabulous entries. Thank you to everyone who took part. The children enjoyed looking at all of the wonderful creations and talking about the stories that the characters were from.
The names of the winners will be on our newsletter.
Well done everyone!
