Year 4 Ocean Blog
Culture Day 2026
Just look our our stunning cultural outfits - beautiful. We have learnt a little more about others cultures and what it means to our peers. We also had a special menu at lunchtime.
Computing
As a school we have been very fortunate to acquire brand new IT equipment. This week Ocean class had the excitement and pleasure of trying some of it out. We were very impressed.
Sound
Over the past few weeks we have been investigating sound in Science. We have learnt how the inner ear helps us to hear, all about sound waves and how sounds travels. We have also used a drum to show vibrations ( we needed a little rice for this!) This week we used the...
Turns and Angles
In Maths this week Mrs Millward's group have been getting to understand turns and angles. We discussed anti-clockwise, clockwise, quarter turns, half turns, compass point turns and angles. We then physically got to understand the turns by actually listening to the...
Road Safety Workshop
On Thursday we had a visit from Louise who works for Safer Sandwell. She taught us all about road safety and the importance of crossing roads safely. She also measured our heights to see if we required high back booster seats or not - there weren't many of use taller...
Special Visitor
This morning we had Ben Heason visit who is a professional rock climber and motivational speaker. He took us through the challenges he faced with 6 other fellow climbers on a expedition to climb Angel Falls. Before even arriving at Angel Falls, they had faced cayman...
Identifying Rivers of the UK
On Friday we had amazing fun using Atlases to identify the main rivers across the UK. They were a little tricky to identify, however, with determination and perseverance we succeeded well. Working with a friend was also a good strategy. 🙂
Comic Relief 2026
Friday 20th March - Red Nose Day. Today in Ocean class we dressed in red and learnt about the Charity Comic Relief. We heard about all the good causes the money helps with not only in the UK but across the world. It all began 40 years ago!! We listened to Sir Lenny...
First Aid
In our PSHE sessions we have been learning all about First Aid and what to do in a variety of situations. This afternoon we pretended we had injuries to our arms and bandaged each other inline with first aid procedures. It was great fun and quite a bit harder than it...
Landscape Art
After sketching and resketching our landscape images, today we have added colour. We attempted to create the foreground, middle ground and back depth and used our previous skills of shade to alter our paint tones. We are very pleased we our results.
World Book Day 2026
Today we have come to school dressed in book character costumes. We have a great range from minions, Matilda, Luigi and Mario to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. We have read an exert from Roald Dahl's biography, listened to an audio book and designed our...
Children’s Mental Health Week
This week in school we have been considering how we belong and the impact it can have on our mental health and well-being. We had an assembly on Monday and have continued to look at mental health through the week in our PSHE lessons. We have learnt the importance of...
Live Lesson
This afternoon children In Ocean class joined an online lesson by WWF with guest speaker Steve Backshall to learn more information about the Arctic and Antarctic, the animal inhabitants and the water life. The lesson lasted 45 minutes and we thoroughly enjoyed it....
Severn Trent Water Visit
Year 3 and 4 had a visit from Andy who works for Severn Trent water. He came to discuss water waste and how we can make a difference to save water. It was very interesting and then we had an activity to complete. Andy gave us a range of 'families' who live on water...
The Iron Man
We have been completing work around the story of the Iron Man by Ted Hughes. We have created a specific word dictionary of words only associated with the story and also created our own little paper 3D iron man. He was a little tricky to do but through perseverance and...
Volcanic Eruption
In Ocean class this week we have learnt about tectonic plates and how volcanoes are formed over many years. We were surprised to find out that volcanoes still grow year on year and how the landscape changes with each eruption. We looked inside a model volcano to...
The Human Digestive System
In Science our topic this half term is the human digestive system. We have looked in detail at the parts of our digestive system and the journey our food goes to pass through it. We then created our own 'human' and added on the digestive system. As you can see we...
Our First Forest School
Unfortunately due to the icy conditions we had to complete our Forest school activity in the classroom. We had great fun making bird feeders.
Roman Day
On Friday we had a Roman workshop day, where we looked at Roman artefacts, learnt to play Roman games and quizzed. In the afternoon we looked at Roman armour and weapons, learnt all about Boudica's Rebellion and Gladiatorial battles. It was an amazing day where we...
Theatre Company Visit
For anti-bullying week we completed many activities and learnt about the 'bullies network'. On Thursday afternoon we had a theatre company visit us who performed a production called 'Hope'. It was about a girl who had been bullied at her school and then she came face...
Our Torches
If you have been following our recent posts, you will be aware that we have been completing circuits in Science and understanding the component parts in a torch. Last week we designed a torch and this week we have tried to create our design. We spent the lesson...

















