Beechwood Primary School

Year 4

2019-2020

Year 4 are Musicians!

This half term, in Computing, Year 4 put on their musical hats, and created their own soundtracks for two video clips using different instruments and different pieces of music-making software on the GarageBand app.

At the end of each lesson, we listened to each composition and decided which ones were the most appropriate soundtracks for the two different scenes.

It was really amazing to see the different atmospheres and interpretations of the videos which were created by our talented musicians with their carefully selected instruments and pieces of music.

Pupils in year 4 have made a good start to the year. They have enjoyed learning and retelling the story of The Cobbler and the Dragon in English and have demonstrated a solid understanding of place value in maths. 

2018-2019

May

As part of Growth Mindset month, year 4 had an amazing ‘Growth Mindset Morning.’ We invited parents to come and take part in a lesson promoting the four zones: Love Learning, Concentration, Have a go and Don’t Give Up. In Hawk class, we were given a brief to create the tallest, free standing tower out of just newspaper, paper clips, a limited strip of tape and 20 minutes to complete! The class had a go, whilst showing sheer concentration, we had created our towers. Next, we went on a learning walk to be able to deliver constructive feedback. Finally, we began to improve the towers whilst closely considering the feedback we were given, resulting in a better constructed outcome. It was genuinely a joy to see so many parents take part in the morning and supporting their children to promote a Growth Mindset.

March

Year 4 turned into musicians this half term as they were learning how to create their own piece of music on the app ‘Garage Band’. In pairs, they played around with existing loops of music as well as composing their own with various instruments before putting the pieces together to create a final piece. The children thoroughly enjoyed the day and created some fantastic music!

February

As part of our Science topic, Year 4 have been learning about how food travels through the human digestive system. We created our own version of it to show how the body digests food and the functions of the organs involved. We had great fun, although it was slightly messy, and were able to write a fantastic explanation as a result.

This half term, some of the Year 4 children were lucky enough to go on the residential to Shortenills Environmental Centre in Buckinghamshire. Whilst there, they were able to explore the woods, visit a local working farm and participate in lots of team building activities. Although it was very cold, the children thoroughly enjoyed the experience, made even more magical by the snow!

October

This half term in Year 4, we have enjoyed learning about sound in our Science lessons and have explored Europe in our Topic lessons. The children have carried out lots of research and have participated in investigations to discover new things for themselves and draw their own conclusions. Both Osprey class and Hawk class presented fantastic and informative class assemblies to their phase about the learning they have done in these subjects.

September

The children in Year 4 have got off to a fantastic start and are now settled into their new classes. We started the year with the difficult task of learning about Roman Numerals. The children did very well with this and successfully worked together to complete some quite tricky challenges!