Year 4
Miss HoweWelcome to Year 4
Key Stage 2 Sports Day
Key Stage 2 have had a fantastic Sports Day this morning! The children demonstrated great teamwork, resilience and respect. Well done!
Countdown Cricket.
Today our amazing Year 3/4 cricket team were meant to be playing in a cricket competition alongside other Gateshead schools at Felling Cricket Club. Unfortunately, due to the weather forecast the event had to be cancelled. The team had worked extremely hard preparing...
Athletics Festival 2025
On Friday 27th June, 23 children from Year 3,4,5 and 6 took part in the annual Gateshead Athletics Festival at Gateshead International Stadium along with 45 other schools. It was an extremely busy and exciting day for the team who took part in a range of track and...
World Music Week 2025
Last week we celebrated 'World Music Week' in school. Throughout the week each class took part in some musical activities including listening and learning about different music around the world, making our own musical instruments out of recycled materials, creating...
Dangers of Smoking
This afternoon, Year 4 learned about the risks and dangers of smoking and how much damage it can cause to your body over time. They made notes comparing the harmful effects of smoking and the benefits of remaining a non-smoker.
Year 4 Tennis
As part of their PE this half term, Year 4 have been receiving tennis coaching. They have worked hard to develop their confidence and accuracy with the rackets and understanding how and when to use a forehand or backhand swing. This afternoon, they played in teams,...
Year 4 Swimming
We are nearly at the end of Year 4’s swimming lessons and they have thoroughly enjoyed their weekly sessions. The improvement in their swimming ability from September is absolutely amazing- not only their skills, but their confidence in the water has grown and grown!...
Using a classification key
This afternoon, Year 4 used a dichotomous key to help them identify unknown species of fish.
Bugs ‘n’ Stuff Workshop
We loved having Guy from Bugs n' Stuff come to visit us in school during our Science Week. Every class had the opportunity to look, touch and hold a wide variety of creatures - a giant millipede, cockroaches, a gecko and a python to name just a few! We saw how a...
Science Week – The Story of Earth Assembly
As part of our Science week activities, Reece from the Street Scientists team , who is a student at Newcastle University, came into school and shared an assembly with our children in Years 1 - 6 about the story of Earth. He showed the children, using ropes, the...
What does God look like?
As part of our R.E topic for this term, Year 4 talked this afternoon about how all religions and faiths have differing views and beliefs about God: what God looks like; how they appear to us; what they do; how they act and where we can find or feel them. They thought...
Quicksticks Hockey
This afternoon, some children from Year 3 and Year 4 were invited to take part in the SSP’s Quicksticks hockey tournament at Lord Lawson. They formed two teams and played three matches each within their groups. We had some great goals scored and some incredible...