Oak Class

Rocks!

Last week, as part of our learning about rocks, we used chocolate to make the three types of rocks, igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.

Melted chocolate was used as ‘lava’ to create the igneous rock. Layers of different types of chocolate made the sedimentary rock and then we applied heat and pressure to this rock to create the metamorphic rock.

Volcanoes

We really enjoyed making our volcanoes this week and loved watching them erupt. Thank-you for watching them erupt with us.

Pan pipes

This week in Science, we have found patterns between the pitch of a sound and the features of the object that produces it.

To do this, we have made pan pipes and discovered that the longer the straw, the slower the vibrations, therefore the pitch of the sound was lower and the shorter the straw, the faster the vibrations, therefore the pitch of the sound was higher.

Ancient Egyptian Shaduf Design and Technology 

To conclude our topic about Ancient Egyptians, we have made our own model of a ‘shaduf’. A shaduf is a hand operated device used for lifting water.

We designed our own based on examples given, we selected the materials that we thought would best work for it then we built, tested and evaluated them.

Ancient Egypt Hook

Last week we were visited by Nick Credible from Dan Tastic Education who came in to talk to us all about Ancient Egypt. We were able to look at some Ancient Egyptian artefacts, shake hands with a Khopesh (sword) and even mummified one of our friends. We learnt a lot and had a fantastic time.

Please find below the knowledge organiser for our topic which will show you what we will be learning about and key information.

Welcome to Oak Class 2022-2023

What a fantastic first week we had!

The children have settled in extremely well to their first week in Year 4.

We started our topic of the Ancient Egyptians by showing what we already know and linking our English topic of instructional writing by mummifying oranges which we found fantastically gross. Have a look at our pictures to see how we did it and look out for our Big Writes of our instructions next week.

Archive 2021-2022

Swimming today was a little different! The children have been learning about water safety and part of that was practising swimming in clothes!

🌈Rainbow Day at New Moston Primary School 🌈

🌈We celebrated International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia with a Rainbow Day 🌈

The children dressed up in all the colours of the rainbow.

This super reader recieved his reading award today. Well done for reading avidly at home and completing your bookmark:)

Our new topic question is: Does it always rain in the rainforest?

We will be exploring the different layers of the rainforest, the climate and plants and animals that live in rainforests. Please find a copy of our knowledge organiser for this half term below which further explains what we are going to be learning about.

Reading morning! We love sharing a book:)

World Maths Day 23/3/22

Today is World Maths Day. 

Below are some ideas of activities you can do at home with your child. 

We hope you enjoy doing some of them.

Sylvia Pankhurst recruited Oak Class to join the Suffragette rally! We protested for right for women to vote!

DEEDS NOT WORDS

We also learnt about key people in the Suffragette movement including the leader Emmeline Pankhurst.

Our topic for this half term is all about 'The Suffragettes'.

Please find a copy of our knowledge organiser below which explains what we will be learning about:)

In Oak class we have been participating in our schools weekly mile challenge! What a great way to help us keep fit and healthy

The children had a very enjoyable day, as they were introduced to our new topic for this half term through a chocolate tasting session. They each got to taste a range of different chocolates and had to describe them by considering their taste, texture and appearance. They then had to give them an overall score out of 10. Some chocolates went down better than others - what do you think we thought of the dark chocolate?

Oak class are very excited about their new topic - Chocolate!

Please find below our chocolate knowledge organiser which shows what we are going to be learning about this half term.

Oak class had an exciting workshop from ‘Mad Science’ exploring electricity. Almost all the children want a plasma lamp for Christmas!

We are so proud of this one - winning 2 medals for gymnastics! Well done! 

Oak class have had a busy writing week:)

We have written diary entries about our escape from Pompeii when the mighty volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted!

Edible Roman Roads!

To help us to understand exactly how the Romans constructed roads, we used edible materials to make our own Roman roads.

Firstly, we used a container to represent the ditch and large biscuits which we used for the large stones that we placed in the ditch.

Next we put a layer of crushed cornflakes to represent the layer of sand and pebbles used by the Romans. Custard came next as the cement!

Finally, we used custard cream biscuits to make a flat surface to represent the flat paving stones.

Unlike the real Roman roads, we could then eat ours!

Another fantastic week in Oak class!

Well done to:

Reader of the week - Yu Ling

Star of the week - Cayden

Handwriter of the week- Kyle   

Certificates!

Lots of certificates given out today:)

Reading award: Wisdom

Handwriting: Tyla

Star of the week: Eli

Well done!

Our first topic is The Romans. In Oak class we have had great fun learning about the Roman army and have even practised our marching skills!