Year 4 Class News

Living and Learning: Safety Week

Last week, Moortown Primary School were thinking all things ‘safety’.

Year 4 took part in a variety of workshops that included road safety, water safety, online safety and how to be safe around dogs!

Our favourite sessions was definitely when we took a trip to Roundhay High School to learn about how to be safe when trampolining and climbing.

Help at home by asking your child how they stayed safe on the trampoline and climbing wall!

Staying safe week: road safety

Jake, from the Leeds City Council road safety team, gave a whole school assembly all about staying safe on and around roads including different types of active travel.

Don’t forget, as part of our staying safe themed week, we are running our active travel safety competition this week.

For a chance to win one of three £10 Love2Shop vouchers, we’d love to see your active travel staying safe photos, maybe using a traffic crossing or wearing a bike helmet (send photos to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org). Photos should be sent by 4pm on Thursday 11 July and winners will be announced on Friday 12 July.

Help at home: Jake reminded us of the green cross code. Talk to your child about what we need to remember when crossing the road.

Staying safe: online safety

Louise from West Yorkshire Police gave a whole school assembly all about staying safe online.
There were lots of clear online safety messages around content, contact and conduct.

At the end of the assembly, the children reflected on what they were going to do after hearing Louise’s messages.

I am going to check my younger sisters’ Roblox settings.

I am not going to accept friend requests from people I don’t know.

I am not going to play games that have a age rating older than me.

Help at home: ask your child how content, conduct and contact are linked to online safety.

Food Technology: Summer Garden Salad

On Friday, Year 4 made a Summer Garden Salad. The children prepared all the ingredients, assembled the salad and enjoyed taste testing it afterwards.

We chopped most of our vegetables, grated the carrots and boiled the potatoes.

We stayed safe by keeping our fingers away from the knife and taking our time.

After we assembled all of the vegetables, we whisked together the yoghurt, oil and vinegar for the dressing.

Everyone tried it and the majority of us loved it! The dressing made all the vegetables really tasty and we all liked the different colours of all the ingredients.

Help at home by making it again! The recipe has been sent home with the children. Can you add something new? Could you try a different dressing?

Staying Safe themed week

Our next whole school themed week, based around Staying Safe, will be taking place next week.  The key message is how to be safe in a range of situations – at home, at school, online and in the environment.

A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education including road safety (Leeds City Council); water safety (Canal and River Trust and RNLI); fire safety (West Yorkshire Fire Service); staying safe around dogs (Dogs Trust); first aid (Leeds Beckett and Red Cross); safety in our community (PCSOs) and e-safety (d:side).

Here are some events taking place.

Monday 08 July 3pm – 3:30pm d:side e-safety drop in information session

A representative from d:side, a health education provider, will be available to discuss e-safety issues and details of your child’s e-safety learning in the themed week.

Thursday 11 July from 8:30am West Yorkshire Police bike register event

Pupils are invited to bring along their bikes to be registered at this bike security marking event at school. Registering your bike helps police and retailers identify and verify the legitimate owner of bikes that have been stolen or are being resold. This is a first come first served event.

Friday 12 July 2:35-3:15pm Leeds Beckett University Carnegie Great Outdoors basic first aid session for parents/carers – there are limited places available so please confirm your place via school gateway.

The themed week is a good opportunity to continue to think about healthy, active and safe ways to travel to school.  Children are encouraged to travel to school in a sustainable way, keeping safe along the way.

For a chance to win one of three £10 Love2Shop vouchers, we’d love to see their active travel staying safe photos, maybe using a traffic crossing or wearing their bike helmet (send photos to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org). Photos should be sent by 4pm on Thursday 11 July and winners will be announced on Friday 12 July.

Due to the rising costs of visitors to school, this year, we are requesting a voluntary contribution of £1 per pupil to go towards paying for visitors. This can be made on school gateway. Thank you for your support with this.

Finally, can you help? Does your job involve an aspect of safety?  If you are able to support our Staying Safe themed week by coming into school to speak to the children, please contact me via the office or your child’s class teacher.

We will keep you up to date about events during the week on the class news pages on our website.

Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy, healthy and safe school.

Leeds Industrial Museum – Armely Mills

Yesterday, Year 4 embarked on our last school trip of the year! We visited Armely Mills; the museum was full of amazing, old machines that take wool from a sheep and make it into fabric.

Each class had a weaving workshop where they carded wool to make it smooth and straight. This used to be done by hand or, in the later years, by machines!  Back in Victorian times, children as young as 7 were working on the machines… We decided that we’d much rather be in school learning!

Finally, we had a go at weaving ourselves. When we weave, there are two threads called a weft and a warp that go in different directions.  The weft goes from left to right and the warp goes from top to bottom. We weaved a variety of fabric to create some beautiful weaves!

We spent the rest of the day exploring the other parts of the museum and the gardens.

A fun-filled day had by all!

Help at home by watching this BBC Bitesize video about weaving. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0015x4s/bitesize-daily-79-year-olds-art-89-year-olds-3-weaving

Living and Learning: healthy me and my body

In Living and Learning, we’ve been learning about our bodies.

The question we have been thinking about is: how are females and males different?

We came up with lots of ideas about how they are different but actually decided that many females and males have lots of similarities. For example; favourite colours, hobbies or hair colour.

One thing we decided that is definitely different is the body parts.

Year 4 discussed how animals (including humans) have different bodies for different reasons. For example, females can produce milk for their young whether they are a cow or a cat.

It’s important that we know the names of our body parts and that they belong to us. We reminded ourselves of the NSPCC  pants rule:

Help at home by naming as many body parts as possible! How many can you name?

Waterstones!

Yesterday, 10 children from Year 3 and 4 went on a trip into Leeds to visit Waterstones!

The children all chose a book to take home and we had great fun looking at all the different choices that were available.

Take a look at some of the books that we chose below! Have you/would you like to read them?

We are designers!

This half term in topic, we are designers.

We’re going to be design, making and evaluating a pouch! Year 4 will get to choose the purpose of their pouch; it could be a pencil case, a purse or a general pouch.

A key skill that we’ll be using to make these pouches will be sewing. We have been practising sewing using a running stich and an over stitch.

We followed these instructions:

1. First, thread the needle and tie a knot in the thread.
2. Then, complete a running stitch using your Binka fabric.
3. Finally, tie a knot at the end of the stitch and cut the excess thread.

The vocabulary for this topic can be found below:

Help at home by asking your child to define what a product is.

Spelling list for 3.2

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
• alternative graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
• homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
• alternative graphemes: sc
• spelling patterns: que
• alternative graphemes: u spelled ou

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.