Year 4 - Tawny Owl

Using our Talk Tactics to Persuade April 25

Today we came back after playtime to find our chairs had been removed! We had to use our oracy skills to persuade our teacher to let us have them back. Using our talk tactics we gave reasons why we should have our chairs back, instigating new ideas, encouraging and building and challenging each others' arguments. When we finally persuaded her, we used our skills to debate other topics.

Science - Circuits March 25

Today, we have created circuits and focused on how insulators and conductors impact the current of electricity flowing through them.

World Book Day March 25

What a wonderful World Book Day we have had!

We shared our costumes and spoke about our characters, shared our character descriptions with Year 3 and used non-fiction texts to read for information learning more about the Terrible Tudors.

We also did "Drop everything and read!"

Don't forget to use your voucher for a new book!

WBD TO 25

Safer Internet Day 25Y

Today was Safer Internet Day!

We started by reading some very interesting news articles which turned out to be fake!

We then learnt all about fake news, why they are made and how to spot/avoid them! We put this information into posters to support others who may not know about fake news already.

Science Week

What a fantastic week we've had!

We had a workshop from real engineers and learned about how submarines are able to float and sink using carefully controlled buoyancy, we learned about animal adaptations and camouflage and designed climate-change and extreme weather proof houses. Thank you to everyone that came to our showcase and Science fair.

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Children's Mental Health Week : February 2025

We have used the characters from Inside Out to help us to explore our feelings. We created personality islands and drew self portraits showing our feelings.

Year 4 Cricket

This half term, we have been lucky enough to have lessons from cricket coach Will. We have become excellent bowlers, batters, fielders and team-players.

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Somerset Waste Workshop

Today we had a visit from Somerset Waste. We learned all about how to Reduce, Re-use and Recycle, as well as what happens to our waste after it is collected. We then investigated how long different materials take to decompose and how we can make positive changes to help our environment.

Waste Workshop Y4

Bridgwater Primary Schools Sports Association Athletics Event

19 children from Y4 were invited to take part in a variety of track and field events in a friendly competition against other local schools, held at Bridgwater and Taunton College (BTC). The children had a great time running relays, obstacle races, throwing balls and javelins and lots of different jumps. We were so proud of the effort, achievement and sporting attitude of the children that attended. Well done!

Athletics Y4

Science Investigation

This morning, Year 4 took advantage of the cold weather and went outside with thermometers and magnifying glasses to observe water in different states of matter.

We also compared the temperature of the air in our classroom, the air outside and the air on the ground.

What a lot of fun!

Year 4 Water Safety Day

Today Y4 learned about water safety. Ask them how to keep safe around open water. They are experts!

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Share a Story

Thank you for coming to our Share a Story session, it was lovely to see the children sharing their love of reading.

It was great to have so many positive comments about the children and their reading.

"All the children are happy and well behaved. Lovely reading too!"

"Each time I visit, everyone is always well behaved."

"The children were amazing at reading."

"I love the children from Tawny Owl, they are always so polite and kind."

"They are so joyful!"

Maths Week England 2024

Year 4 looked at how Maths can be used in real life.

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Carnival 24!

Year 4 created masks using the Carnival theme of Time. We also wrote Haiku and Cinquain poetry on a carnival theme.

Y4 Carnival Mask and Poetry

Tawny Owls Art

Tawny Owl Art Owls

Maths Bar Modelling Showcase

Thank you for coming to our Maths Bar Modelling Showcase. 

The children used their Oracy skills to demonstrate If I know...then I know... stem sentences using addition and subtraction number facts.

Hello Yellow Mental Health Day

On Thursday 10th October we are wore something yellow as part of our focus on mental health. We spoke about the importance of looking after our mental health and learned about resilience and things we can do when things don't go well. We then took part in a national zoom assembly with Young Minds and premiere league player Reece James.

Year 4 and Year 2 Collaborative Computing

Today the Year 4 children used their computing skills to teach the Year 2 children how to create branch databases using J2edata. It was lovely to see the older children helping the younger children and everyone was successful!

Curriculum links- Computing and Science.

Y2 Y4 Computing Oct 24

European Day of Languages

We had such a super day celebrating diversity and culture as part of the European Day of Languages. Our focus country was The Netherlands and we found out some facts, learned a few phrases and immersed ourselves ion songs and dances from The Netherlands. 

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Owl Visit 2024

Year 4 have had a very special visit from North Somerset Birds of Prey who brought in four owls to share with us. 

We got to meet Dotty, the small owl who is one of the smallest owls in the country, as well as Hercules the European Eagle Owl. 

We also met Inca the Barn Owl and Cerberus the Tawny Owl. We were amazed to learn that Barn Owls do not have waterproof feathers and that Tawny Owls are the only owls that make the iconic ‘Twit-twoo’ sound. 

We learnt so much about owls and will be using what we have learned as a starting point to research and write our own non-chronological reports. We also experienced excellent presentation skills first hand and used these to help us to present our own owl facts to the class, thinking carefully about our class rules for Oracy (speaking and listening). 

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Y4 Sports Day : July 2024

Year 4 Health and Sports Week

What a fantastic Health and Sports Week we have had in Year 4!

On Monday we had a visit from athlete Kirsty Way, a medal winning Trampolinist and member of Team GB, who led us in fitness circuits. We also took time to learn about ways to take care of our physical health and mental well-being. We then had a rugby workshop. We also learned about our Olympic focus country- Mexico and made flags and maracas.

On Tuesday we learned about road safety, with a focus on our developing independence around the local area and had an afternoon orienteering around the school.

On Wednesday we learned about food and nutrition, thinking about what makes a healthy diet and the types of nutrition an athlete might need.

On Thursday we had a day at Bridgwater and Taunton College, taking part in a range of sporting and team-building activities, including Island Rescue, Archery, Spinning, Football Golf and Relay Races. “The best day of my life!” according to Theo.

On Friday, we learned about water safety with the RNLI, sun safety and then had a relaxing yoga session. More than one person fell asleep during our shavasana meditation at the end!

It has been such a great week, filled with activities to support our physical and mental health. We have been so lucky with the weather and enjoyed being outside as much as possible and we are looking forward to Sports’ Day on Monday.

There are A LOT of photos in our gallery. Please take time to look through them all, it has been a very busy week!

Y4 Health and Sports Week

Year 4 Science Oracy Presentations : June 2024

Year 4 have been learning about the digestive system.

For our Summer 2 Oracy challenge, we prepared and presented our learning in front of our year group. We focused on volume, tone, pace and audience.  The presentations were all of a very high standard and we are becoming confident public speakers.

Y4 dig sys

Tawny Owl Share a Story Session

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our lovely share a story session today. We hope you enjoyed sharing our books and amazing artwork. Have a great half-term break!

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Year 4 Rainforest Art

Year 4 have been learning about Tropical Rainforests!

Our focus artist this term has been Jeannie Baker, an artist and conservationist who uses multimedia collage to produce beautiful natural scenes.

Inspired by our Rainforest learning and Jeannie Baker, we have created collaborative collages using only recycled and repurposed materials.

Y4 Rainforest Art

Happy Easter and Ramadan Mubarak from Tawny Owl Class : April 2024

Year 4 Forest School Day : March 2024

What a fantastic day Year 4 have had today in the Forest School.

We have been busy weaving using natural materials, structure building, whittling, creating with clay, minibeast hunting and creating bug hotels. 

We were very fortunate with the weather and the warmth brought out ladybirds, butterflies, bees and more. We even had the excitement of chicks hatching somewhere above our heads while we were there, as a small blue egg shell appeared in the middle of our whittling area while we worked.

Year 4 Forest School 2024

World Book Day 2024

What a fabulous day we had celebrating our love of books and stories.

We spoke about our chosen characters, our favourite books and shared our storytelling skills with Year 3. Don't forget to use your book token!

Rocktopus - March 2024

A very exciting day across the whole school. Year 4 and 5 got together to create a song about the 6 times tables. Their rhyming skills were very impressive! You children have been sent home with a QR code which you can scan to watch them in action! 

Year 4 Cad Characters Visit

Year 4 have had a visit from a courtier who time-travelled from Tudor times! He told us all about life in the court of King Henry VIII, including what happened to his wives.

It was a great interactive way to bring our history learning to life.

Y4 Tudor Cad Characters - March 2024

Year  4 Storytelling Visit

As part of our Oracy Storytelling focus, Year 4 had a visit from Sharon Jacksties, a professional storyteller. She shared the story of Hyena, Hare and the Baobab Tree, a traditional African tale. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and magpied a lot of ideas for our own oral storytelling, including the use of actions, pace, tone and adding instruments for effect. The children were asked to visualise one scene from the story and were very keen to put these to paper. Some of their fabulous ideas can be found in the gallery.

Year 4 Storyteller Visit

Fencing Workshop

Y4 Fencing

Year 4 and Year 1 French Oracy Share

Year 4 have been learning to retell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in French and Year 1 have been learning to retell it in English.

We got together to share our stories and the Year 4s even taught the Year 1s some French words!

Year 4 and Year 1 French Story Share

The Science of Sound

This half term we have been learning all about sound, from how sound is created, how it travels and the inner workings of our ears! We have done this in a range of fun and practical ways- including using and making instruments, making our own string telephones. Some of us were so inspired we even chose to make instruments at home!

Science Tawny Sound

Hedgehog Workshop

This week we were very lucky to have a visit from Alex from the RSPCA to talk to us about hedgehogs and other wildlife. We learned lots about our local wildlife and how we can help them, and even created our own hedgehogs!

Multiplication Tables Check

We have shared with parents/carers the updated MTC parents leaflet, which children in Year 4 will participate in this June. Please do speak with Class Teachers if you have any queries, or if you would prefer a paper copy.