Year 4
👫Welcome to Our Class Page
Our teacher is called Mrs McGuckin and our classroom assistants are Mrs Dowds and Mrs Quigg. Our page will keep you informed about all the exciting activities we get up to throughout the year.
👫Come Follow Me⛪️
Jesus invites us to live the way he asks us to.
🔍Right Angle Hunt📐
We are learning about angles. We took our right angle finders outside in search of right angles. We found lots!
Symmetry
In our Maths Meetings we are learning about symmetry. We gathered some natural materials and used them to create a symmetrical picture.
🐥Happy Easter🍫
We had fun baking Easter Nests and making cute Easter chicks.
🌍🌳Stop Global Warming☀️🚗
Year 4 are protesting against global warming. They are worried about the world and want to encourage everyone to work together to save the earth.
☘️ Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️
👫The Big Walk and Wheel🚴♂️
Year 4 enjoyed walking, cycling and scooting to school.
🌷Happy Mother’s Day🌼
📚World Book Day📖
We dressed up in our pyjamas and brought our favourite book with us. We played a guess the book character game and went on a book treasure hunt.
❄️How do Polar Animals Keep Warm?❄️
We carried out an investigation to find out how polar animals keep warm. We made a butter covered glove and put one hand in to the glove. Then we put both of our hands in to cold water to see if the hand in the butter glove stayed warmer than the hand without. We were surprised to find that it did!
⛪️The Sacrament of Reconciliation👫
We celebrated our first Sacrament this year - the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Thank you to Fr McDermott for helping us celebrate this special occasion.
Spring Tidying
We enjoyed being outside in the good weather beginning a Spring tidy up around the front of the school.
⛪️First Holy Communion Programme👫
We really enjoyed our online First Holy Communion Programme with Bishop McKeown, Mary and Therese from the Derry Diocesan Catechetical Centre.
👫Shared Education Day🦕
We had a wonderful day in Kilrea Primary School with our Shared Education partners, where we enjoyed a range of art and construction activities based on the theme of dinosaurs.
👫Safer Internet Day💻
We discussed the things that are safe to share on the internet and those that we need to keep private.
👫Catholic Schools Week⛪️
During Catholic Schools Week we learned more about how God wants us to be active participants in our community. We can be kind, caring and helpful to everyone in our community.
Article 14 - Every child has the right to practise their religion.
👨👩👦Grandparents Day❤️
We painted our grandparents and wrote a note to tell them how much we love spending time with them.
Article 31- Every child has the right to take part in a range of artistic activities.
❄️Polar Lands☃️
Have a look at some of the activities we carried out during our Polar Lands topic!
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
Article 31 - Every child has the right to play and take part in a range of artistic activities.
🎄Merry Christmas🎅🏻
We enjoyed our Christmas treats and making Christmas cards.
Article 31 - Every child has the right to relax and take part in a range of artistic activities.
❄️Winter Art🌨️
We enjoyed creating our lovely Winter displays.
Article 31 - Every child has the right to take relax and take part in a wide range of artistic activities.
🦮Visit from The Dogs Trust🐕🦺
We were very lucky to have a fantastic session with Paula from The Dogs Trust where we learned a lot about dogs and how to behave around them.
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
😊Shared Education Day👫
We had a very enjoyable day with Kilrea Primary School where we carried out some fun activities around the theme of dinosaurs.🦖🦕
Article 31 - Every child has the right to relax and take part in a wide range of artistic activities.
👫Anti-Bullying Week😊
We began Anti-Bullying Week by wearing our odd socks to celebrate how unique we all are. We created Acts of Kindness and put them on to our Kindness Tree. To finish the week we entered in to the school poster competition.
Article 12 - Every child has the right to have their views taken seriously.
❤️Drawing God Day🖍️
We read the story ‘Drawing God’ and then drew what we think represents God.
Article 14 - Every child has the right to practise their religion.
Flying Spitfires
We really enjoyed making and flying our Spitfires. We then carried out a fair test to see which one would fly the farthest.
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
🕷️🎃Happy Hallowe’en💀🧙♀️
Article 29 - Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.
💥World War Two Art🇩🇪
Article 31 - Every child has the right to take part in a wide range of artistic activities.
Maths Week
We enjoyed a variety of maths activities to celebrate Maths Week.
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
💻Coding Week⬆️
We used the code.org website to create lines of code to tell our character what to do. It was a really enjoyable task!
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
🍁🐿️ National Poetry Day 🍂🦔
We gathered nouns, verbs and adjectives about Autumn. Then we used our ideas to write our Autumn Poems.
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
World War Two
Look at how we have been learning all about World War Two.
Article 31 - Every child has the right to relax and play and take part in a range of artistic activities.
🖍️ Year 4 Portraits ✏️
We created our portraits in Picasso’s Cubism style.
Article 31 - Every child has the right to take part in a range of artistic activities.
🌍European Languages Day🇫🇷
We enjoyed learning the French words for parts of the body.
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
🐊Learning Grammar😊
The Enormous Crocodile is helping us to learn all about nouns and proper nouns.
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
👫Our Class Charter👫
We agreed on promises that we would make to help us all stay safe and happy as we learn together.
Article 1 - Everyone under the age of 18 has all the rights in the Convention.
Article 2 - The Convention applies to everyone.
👫Our Names are Special😊
We have all of our names displayed in our class to remind us how special each of us are.
Article 7 - Every child has the right to a legal name.
🐝🌺Wildflower Garden🦋🌼
There was so much to discover in the Wildflower Garden! We saw lots of wasps and captured a few of them for a closer look!
Article 31 - Every child has the right to relax and play.
Article 28 - Every child has the right to an education.
😊Back Together Again👫
We were very happy to be back at school and to be with all of our friends again!
Article 31 - Every child has the right to relax and play.