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Year 4 2025-2026 Blog

No Pens Day 2024

Next week on Wednesday 27th November the whole school will take part in No Pens Day. This is a day to recognise that there are many different ways to communicate and not all people find talking and understanding words easy. Communication is vital for young people to thrive and difficulties in this can make children feel sad and isolated. During No Pens Day we will look at alternative ways to communicate like using gestures, facial expressions, codes and sign language. It will also be a fun way to practise our oracy and speaking and listening skills which is so important. 

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The Great Broadbent Fold Bake Off!

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Thank you to the PTFA for organising our Bake Off! Pupils had created some wonderful cakes and biscuits - our winners are above 1. Aubrey and Elwin's rainbow LGBTQ+ cake 2. Teddy with his cookie monsters! 3. Chloe's spy cakes linked to her class topic. 

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Writing our own graphic scores

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We created our own graphic scores in Music for our chosen colour peony pink using the word bank we created last week. We had to choose our own instruments, rhythm and then draw the graphic score to represent this. We discussed how layering sounds on top of each other would produce a better song but to make sure we didn't use too many instruments at once. We tried playing each others graphic scores to see if we interpreted the rhythm correctly. We then added dynamics to our composition using the relevant symbols to describe the changes in volume for our piece of music. 

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Reading Ambassador meeting with Tameside Library

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Today our Reading Ambassadors had their first meeting with Lisa from Tameside Library. First they shared all of the posters that were entered into the competition- thank you to members of Year 5 and Year 2 for your poster entries. Please see their posters attached. Then they had a book quiz all about the library and different children's fiction and authors. Then we were set our next reading mission- details will be shared very soon...

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Odd Socks Day

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We celebrate our differences today with Odd Socks Day 2024 - part of our Anti-bullying themes this week. 

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Polish Day

Year 4 loved taking part in Polish day where we sang lots of Polish songs and answered the register in Polish. We also used illustrated maps by Polish artists to compare Poland to the UK and discussed the similarities and differences beteeen the two countries. 

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Polish Day

On 11th November 1918 Poland celebrated it's independence day. As Polish is our Modern Foreign Language - we will be celebrating this event and taking part in many activities. Miss Laitl our Polish teacher will lead this. 

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Anti-Bullying Week

Anti-Bullying Week 2024 will take place from Monday 11th - Friday 15th November, with the theme: Choose Respect. Odd Socks Day is taking place on Tuesday 12th November, with adults and children being encouraged to wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.

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Project with the English National Opera

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Yesterday, we found an envelope and lots of composer badges in our classroom. There was a letter from the English National Opera to tell us all about a project where they need our help composing to finish off a piece of music. We watched a video about the libretto 'Blue, Red, Yellow' and looked at how the composer was feeling and what he was thinking about when he thought of the different colours.

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