Year 4

Mrs Cavey and Mrs Yusef

Class mail: year4@pilgrim.medway.sch.uk

A Y4 opening slideshow

He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

Ephesians 4:16

Our Vision

The Pilgrim School

Jesus said, “I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness.” (John 10:10)

This is the precept upon which The Pilgrim School is founded. We are committed to enabling each member of our community to flourish.

Following the role model of Christ, we constantly strive to be His pilgrims:

Forever compassionate caring and inclusive · Forever trustworthy
Forever aspiring and adventurous · Forever respectful
Forever thankful · Forever us ...

Forever Pilgrim

Dear Year 4,

We are so excited to see you all back at school continuing your Pilgrim journey in year 4. We are going to make sure that this year is going to be full of fun and enjoyment while learning about new and exciting topics.

We wish you all the best luck in ear 4!

Bring a named water bottle from home
Wear your PE kit to school on Thursdays - remember some warm layers too, if needed
If you're having school dinners - try to already have an idea of what you want each day when you come to school
This term's homework will be set on Google Classroom. It will be set on a Thursday and will be due in the following Tuesday. We will be placing a significant focus on speedy recall of our times tables - so that practice will also be good for any extra challenge. Homework Club will take place on a Monday lunchtime - please remember to ask in plenty of time if you are struggling.
Wear your Forest School clothes every alternate Friday - and bring a change of clothes in case you get particularly wet or muddy
Forest School dates for this term are:
Friday 6th September
Friday 20th September
Friday 4th October
Bring a reading book from home to keep in your tray if you like
Leave all your bits and bobs at home - you won't need your own stationery or pencil cases or games etc
Keep talking to us - it helps us all - we're here for your whole family

Timetables

Our weekly timetable

Year 4 Timetable

We are readers

Breakfast with a book

We have already enjoyed our first breakfast with a book session this term. It was lovely to share our favourite reads with our families and friends over a nice breakfast.

Reading Buddies

We are getting to know our new reading buddies in Year 2 and have enjoyed meeting with them on a Friday morning to share stories and books. We have loved getting to know each other better and even shared some cakes together on Friday's McMillan coffee morning.

Books we have enjoyed so far

Please take a look at our growing library of books we have enjoyed this year. I wonder if we can enjoy more books than we did last year! That's a hard record to beat!

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We Are Poets

Year 4 have had a very exciting week! We have been taking part in a Guinness World record attempt for taking part in the largest poetry lesson. We have submitted all our ideas to the poet Laura Mucha, who ran a live session where we edited and contributed to writing a poem all about 'What counts'. We had great fund live editing with thousands of children across the country during voting sessions and we can not wait to see our poem printed and on display! We will keep you posted with details on where to find it!

Poetry world record attempt Y4

We Are Writers

For our first piece of writing we have been taking some inspiration from the book Varmints. we have been working really hard to include personification and prepositional phrases to help build a scene for the reader. We are super proud of the end results! Take a look and see if you agree?

Year 4 scene descriptions

We Are Historians

We have loved our first topic on Ancient Greece. We have been learning all about how different life was for children in ancient Greece and how the rules and punishments were not all too different from what we still have now. We have enjoyed trying to create our own paper Parthenons using the engineering problem solving skills they used in Ancient Greece. We discovered just how tricky it must have been to make a building so robust and last so long! We also discovered the creation of the Olympics and what types of sports were played. It was interesting to find out that women were not allowed to take part. In fact we were quite shocked at just how favoured the males were back in Ancient Greece! We have been making our own Olympian statues based on the sports they competed in and we tried to make our statues as realistic as possible in their action stances.

History Art and DT

To experience what life really was like in Ancient Greece we also has a tasting session allowing us to taste some of the foods that would have been available in Ancient Greece.

We made our very own bread, then compared this to some flattened bread such as pita. We also tried green and black olives, Greek cheese and Greek yoghurt. The yoghurt was a firm favourite, but not everyone was a fan of the olives or the cheese!

Greek food tasting Y4

We are Explorers

We love learning outside of the classroom. We have already enjoyed one trip this term to one of our local places of interest. We enjoyed a day spent at the Rochester cathedral learning all about sound and how sound is made. Then we loved making our our sounds, including musical instruments and beautiful singing! We learnt all about the building and how long it has been standing and where the tell tale signs are inside of a change in building styles. It was a greatly enjoyable and informative day.

Rochester cathedral trip Year 4

We Are Scientists

Year 4 have been exploring how our human digestive system works by replicating the food we eat and its journey through the organs. We started by using scissors to replicate our teeth chewing up our healthy breakfast and then added saliva (water) and poured the contents into a replica stomach with stomach bile (orange juice and food colouring)! We enjoyed squishing and squashing the food together just as our stomachs do, before it enters the intestines (our tights!!). We then had to squeeze the food all the way to the end of some very long intestines before it exits at the end! We had some very realistic looking results! We were then able to retell the story of the foods journey in our bodies.