Year 4H: Gallery
Artist Visit, by Miss Robinson
Date: 25th Mar 2025 @ 4:29pm
Today, we were very lucky to have a visit from two artists from Touchstones in Rochale. They day began with a workshop with Elmi. First, we did a free write where we had to write whatever came into our brains, followed by poem written in our pairs. After lunch, we then had a workshop with Tom. We got to look at a real piece of art from a museum and ask questions about it, before creating masks for our partners. We had to ask lots of questions like "When were you brave?" and "What do you love the most?" our work was photographed and will be displayed in Rochdale over the summer holidays!
Anglo-Saxon Trip!, by Miss Hirst
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 8:20am
Yesterday, we visited Tatton Park for an Anglo-Saxon experience day. We were transported back to the Anglo-Saxon times where we met some local village people. They were kind enough to train us on how to live like Anglo-Saxons and defend ourselves against the Vikings! We had lessons on how to create a shield wall, jewellery making to sell at the market, how to make flour from wheat and deer hunting. After all our lessons, we were able to scare away the Vikings.
The trip ended with lots of sleepy Anglo-Saxons on the coach!
Throwing and catching, by Miss Robinson
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 2:20pm
This half term, Year 4 are focusing on their throwing and catching skills. Today, we practised these skills with bean bags. We were then challenged to create out own games.
World Book Day 2025 - Everyone's Costumes!, by Mr Wood
Date: 8th Mar 2025 @ 4:37pm
Our school was filled with colour and creativity as staff and pupils dressed up as their favourite book characters for World Book Day! From classic literary heroes to modern favourites, the variety of costumes was truly impressive. Everyone put in a fantastic effort, bringing beloved stories to life with enthusiasm and imagination.
Click below to take a look at the wonderful photos capturing the magic of the day – a testament to our love of reading and storytelling! 📚✨
World Book Day 2025, by Mrs Bradley
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 3:38pm
The children had a fantastic World Book Day, inspired by the works of author Oliver Jeffers. They created some outstanding pieces of work based on Jeffers' book Stuck, and we couldn't help but wonder if Floyd, the character from the story, had visited our school after seeing what happened to our tree outside. Additionally, all the children arrived in school dressed in fantastic outfits, celebrating their love for books and creativity.
Safer Internet Day, by Miss Hirst
Date: 13th Feb 2025 @ 12:44pm
On Tuesday, we had safer internet day where we got involved with a live session talking us through things such as scams and phishing and then we completed some quizzes and other activities throughout the day! We all learnt so much about how to stay safe online!
Digestive system Modelling, by Miss Hirst
Date: 5th Feb 2025 @ 9:10am
Earlier this week, 4H worked in groups to model the process of how food travels through the digestive system. It was a fun way to understand what happens to our food in more detail and everyone enjoyed this! Here are some pictures to show you how we did this.
Outdoor PE this week, by Miss Hirst
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 12:49pm
This week in PE, we were focusing on dodging and defensive skills. Here are some pictures from the activities we undertook during this lesson!
Recycling session with Rochdale Council, by Miss Healey
Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 11:25am
Today we had a fantastic visitor! Nigel Goulding from Rochdale Borough Council came in to speak to Year 5 all about recycling and what we can do for the planet! We had so much fun and learnt many things about our waste and what happens to it after we're done with it. We learnt all about the small steps we can take to make our Earth happy and healthy again :)
Year 4 River Walk (Geography fieldtrip), by Miss Hirst
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 4:47pm
This morning, year 4 went on a walk through Rochdale to explore the River Roch! Both 4H and 4R spent time looking at differences between a canal and a river and we looked at the speed of the water and the direction in which it flowed. We also looked at and spoke about the flood barriers/ defences and why they are important near the Riverside building. Despite a bit of rainy weather we all enjoyed the walk and here are some pictures of our visit.
Tutankhamun Biography Booklets, by Miss Hirst
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 1:05pm
In English this week and last week we have spent a lot of time, as well as during our history lessons last half term, finding facts out about life in Ancient Egypt. We have focused on Tutankhamun and looked at his life. We carried out some fun fact finding lessons and then used the information we had learnt to create a written biography and then we turned our work into some biography booklets. Here are some pictures of the work each table completed!
KS2 Christmas Sing-a-Long, by Miss Hulse
Date: 17th Dec 2024 @ 10:39am
The children in KS2 delivered a wonderful Christmas nativity. The children told the nativity story through song and were all AMAZING!
Class 4H's Class Assembly, by Miss Hirst
Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 10:26am
This morning, year 4 completed their first class assembly for this academic year on 'The Importance of Light'. It was lovely to see the amount of time and effort that each and every pupil had put into learning their parts and it was also nice to see many smiles on faces when they had finished saying their part in front of the rest of the school and any parents/ carers who came to watch. Well done year 4! We are super proud of you!
STEM Week, by Miss Hirst
Date: 2nd Dec 2024 @ 8:36am
Last week, 4H took part in the Stem project. The whole school project was to help Father Christmas deliver his presents and the task for year 4 was to help the Christmas tree light up. Despite not working properly, year 4 still had fun creating their project!
Wellbeing Ambassadors, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:31pm
Today, our new Wellbeing Ambassadors went to their initial training session at Littleborough Sports Centre to find out all about what it takes to be a Wellbeing Ambassador. We tried lots of different activities to support our Wellbeing and Mental Health with various teams from Rochdale such as Your Trust and The School Nursing Team. We also learnt about the 5 ways to wellbeing which are: 'BE ACTIVE', 'GIVE', 'CONNECT', 'TAKE NOTICE' and 'KEEP LEARNING'. The children represented our school brilliantly and are looking forward to starting their new roles in school after Christmas!
More M6 Theatre Trip Photos!, by Miss Hirst
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 4:14pm
Here are some more pictures from our linking project trip to the M6 theatre from earlier this week!
M6 Theatre Trip, by Miss Hirst
Date: 19th Nov 2024 @ 5:27pm
Today we visited the M6 Theatre Company in Rochdale to watch a performance called 'A Tiger's Tale' and complete some drama activities and games. During our visit we met up with our linking school, Hopwood primary, and learnt some facts about our new linking buddies! We really enjoyed our day at the theatre and cannot wait to see our new friends again soon!
Creating our own games!, by Miss Robinson
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 3:48pm
Today, 4R and 4H joined together for a PE lesson. We were tasked with creating our own games in small groups which included a ball. We were so excited to show off our ideas.
Manchester Museum Trip, by Miss Robinson
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 8:10am
We visited Manchester Museum to do an Ancient Egyptian Workshop. In the workshop, we were tasked with finding the most important artefact in the museum out of 18,000! We looked at lots of different artefacts and used our curator skills to choose an artefacts based on its rareity, beauty, story and material. We also got to see a real mummified body and learn all about her life. We also got to walk around the museum and look at all the different exibits from fossils and dinosaurs to animals in the natural world. After a long day, there were lots of sleepy children on the coach!
Year 4 Macmillan Coffee Morning, by Miss Hirst
Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 3:32pm
Today, year 4 had their Macmillan Coffee morning and enjoyed their juice and biscuit. What a fun way to help a great cause!
Live, Love and Grow Together Day - Year 4, by Miss Hulse
Date: 15th Jul 2024 @ 12:49pm
St Peter's 'Live, Love and Grow Together Day' took place on Friday 12th July and is was such a fantastic day for all the children. The children in Year 4 took part in some traditional games, such as snap and Dominos. They also carried out orienteering on the school grounds, finding all of the letters that would spell out happiness. Then in the afternoon, the children made some friendship bracelets, this was such a special and memorable day for the children.
WOW Church Summer Presentation to the Diocese, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 12th Jul 2024 @ 4:00pm
Our 2 WOW Church members visited St Chad's Church in Middleton to delivered a presentation, alongside our group members from St John's Thornham and Milnrow Parish Primary School, to over 40 diocese representatives. The children explained and showed the diocese the various projects we have worked on this year, set up an environmental challenge for the parishioners to complete and then sung our song, 'Rich Diversity'. Each child represented their school brilliantly and the Dean of Rochdale was so impressed with the way the children conducted themselves during the presentation. The diocese is taking on board the children’s suggestions of a Plastic Policy in every church and we look forward to next year's group where we hope to again make a difference to the environment of our churches in Rochdale.
KS2 Sports Day - June 2024, by Miss Hulse
Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 8:24am
KS2 had a fantastic day at sports day yesterday, the children had a great afternoon joining in with all the activities in the sun!
Year 4 - Rochdale Schools Linking Book Hunt! - June 2024, by Miss Hulse
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 12:37pm
We had a fantastic time taking part in the Rochdale Schools Linking Book Hunt! We went to visit Balderstone Library, where the children reflected on their Linking journey and worked together to make recommendations about which books best represent kindness, home, meeting new people, working together and making the world a better place.
WOW Church Meeting 17.4.24, by Mrs Brandwood
Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 9:18am
Our two WOW (Watch Our World) church representives visited St John's Thornham Church of England Primary School this afternoon for our next WOW meeting. This meeting focused on the local environment and we had a fantastic opportunity to have a visit from a Hedgehog Hospital. Here, the children learnt about the impact humas are having on hedgehogs and how we can better look after our environment for our local wildlife. The children found out a range of facts about hedgehogs and created a 'hedgehog house' (a hibernacula) to support hedgehogs in the area.
