🤩Welcome to Primary 4🤩

Using the gym equipment in PE

Pancake Day in P4

Chinese New Year

P4 have been learning all about the country of China and about how Chinese New Year is celebrated. Miss Lei has been helping the pupils to learn some basic Mandarin. The pupils have worked in groups to complete tasks during Activity Based Learning. Chinese New Year was celebrated with a special day where the pupils dressed in red or in costume and completed maths, literacy and art tasks and also enjoyed tasting some chinese food. 

Our trip to the Chinese Roadshow at Banbridge Academy 

What is the best way to clean a 1p coin? 
We tried five different ways to clean a 1p coin. We found out that the best things to use are salt and vinegar. 

Measuring in cm 

P4 have been perfecting their measuring skills using measuring tapes. Great teamwork everyone. 

Activity Based Learning: School in the Past 

Fun in the snow

Using our problem solving skills with Izak9

Odd socks for Antibullying Week 

ICT 

Using the Chromebooks to build up our confidence in using the hundred square 😀

🌻Painting ‘Van Gogh’s Sunflowers’ to make our school look bright and welcoming 🌻

Mrs Davidson brought two of her sunflowers to school when they were just buds and we observed what happened as the buds opened. We looked at the sunflowers in detail and then at some of Van Gogh’s paintings and we were able to paint our own pictures to make our corridor look bright, happy and welcoming. 

Autumn Walk to Solitude Park

WAU topic: Autumn 

We have been out exploring our school grounds to look for different types of trees.

“From little acorns big oak trees grow” 

🤗The class of 2024-2025🤗

World War 2 Topic: P4 pupils ‘Dig for Victory’ 

P4 trip to Hillsborough Castle 

VE Day celebrations in Abercorn 

ICT

P4 had fun using the Chromebooks when they tried to solve tangram puzzles

Chinese Roadshow at Banbridge Academy 

Celebrating a special birthday 🎂 

Useful websites for Maths and Literacy Games 

Decorating baubles on our first Festive Friday in December. More fun to come next Friday🎅

World Around Us Topic 1: AUTUMN

This is a most interesting time of the year to get out and about and notice the changes which are taking place with the weather, animals and plants.

Get to know the names of the trees near to where you live and make sure the whole family go for a walk in Solitude Park or even to Gosford, Castlewellan or Tollymore Forest Park over the next few months.

We have been exploring our school forest area by identifying trees, seeds and fruits. Using crayons, we have been doing bark rubbings of a mixture of deciduous and evergreen trees and comparing our results.

In the school grounds we collected natural materials. After that, each group chose a spot in the forest area and created a piece of art in the style of the artist Andrew Goldsworthy. Well done everyone 🍁

🦋Having fun with symmetry activities🦋

We had fun experimenting with mirrors to find the line of symmetry in pictures, shapes and patterns. Everyone enjoyed using ‘Symmetry Artist’ on the computer to create their own symmetrical picture. 

🍂Autumn Activity Based Learning🍂

ABL is one of P4’s favourite times of the week. There were lots of opportunities to play together and learn more about autumn

School in the Past: Activity Based Learning 

Learning to sew, being ‘a teacher from the past’, trying cursive writing, being books detectives and of course, playing old style card games like ‘DONKEY’ 

Chinese New Year

We will be learning all about the country of China and how they celebrate the Chinese New Year. We will be finding out where in the world China is and which animals live there. We will enjoy researching information about giant pandas.

We will study the stories of The Willow Pattern and the Zodiac Race.

2025 is the Year of the Snake.

Watch out for our lovely artwork as we hope to design some beautiful Chinese Vases. 

Planning a Chinese Party

We worked with a partner to plan a party for four people. We had a lot of items to choose from but we were only allowed to spend £5. We had to use our four times tables to help us to count up our bill.

Science Experiment

Chinese people give children a Lucky Money Envelope with a shiny coin inside to celebrate the Chinese New Year. We did a science experiment to see which liquids cleaned our pennies the best. We tried water, coke, sauce, lemonade and salt and vinegar. We filled in a table of results to record our observations.

Fun from the class of 2023-2024

World War 2 Activity Based Learning

Real Life Maths: Weighing

Easter bunny hunt in our school forest area

World Book Day Fun 

Numeracy

Autumn

School in the Past

Chinese New Year

PE in our assembly hall

We all enjoyed a visit from the Amazing Journey.