Eggselent entries for our parade and competition today!
Y4 Homework Task 26 3 19 to be returned on Mon 15 4 19 so that we can prepare for our Geography Topic Celebration Afternoon on 24 4 19
| Latitude | Longitude | City |
| 53.4 N | 1.5 W | Sheffield |
| 51.5 N | 0.9 W | London |
| 48.8 N | 2.3 E | Paris |
| 52.5 N | 13.4 E | Berlin |
| 48.2 N | 16.4 E | Vienna |
| 37.9 N | 23.7 E | Athens |
| 41.4 N | 2.1 E | Barcelona |
| 53.3 N | 6.2 W | Dublin |
| 38.7 N | 9.1 W | Lisbon |
| 52.3 N | 4.9 W | Amsterdam |
What kind of game could you make up using these city co – ordinates, or others, or a mixture of these and your own, to help others learn about and have fun with latitude and longitude? Think of some ideas.
Here are the latitude and Longitude co – ordinates for some European cities. These can all be found at:
https://simplemaps.com/resources/free-country-cities
along with the co – ordinates of lots more world cities. Remember, we always give Latitude first (North or South of the Equator) and Longitude second (East or West of Greenwich Meridian.)
With permission, look up our ‘Latitude and Longitude’ song on You Tube:
Remember our definitions from the song:
“Latitude is the angular distance measured in degrees,
It tells how far from the equator any place happens to be.
Longitude is the angular distance measured in degrees,
It tells how far from Greenwich England any place happens to be.”
Don’t bring the whole game on Monday 15th April! – just a few ideas, sketches, notes, images and resources and materials if you like. Some of you may want to make a game in a team so you might use different peoples’ ideas in the same game. We will make the games in class.
This can be a tricky concept but maybe with a bit of thinking and practice you can learn more about it, and help others to learn about it too.
The document below is a helpful map:
Our task in R.E. today was to think about Jesus’s words in Luke’s Gospel where He asks us to ‘love our enemies.’ We read the scripture and had a class debate which was very interesting, hearing arguments ‘for’ and ‘against’ God’s way. We decided that loving our enemies was not an easy idea, but we respected and believed Jesus’s words, so we went on to think about how we could put this into action in our own lives.
This morning we had our Reconciliation Service which was prayerful, and the children’s behaviour throughout was excellent. 
We had two very interesting talks for Science Week and they fitted with our current topic ‘Light.’
Mrs. Roxby who taught us more about radiotherapy, x – rays and the way we can use ultra violet light to make our own ‘x – ray’ images. We really enjoyed this activity and we were lucky enough to have a sunny morning to carry out the experiment.
Dr. Wostenholme taught us about chromatography using inks from permanent and non permanent markers. We discovered that there are lots of colours mixed together to make brown ink and we could separate these out using chromatography. She told us about how scientists can use chromatography to spot fake works of art by analysing paint.
In our Science lessons, we sorted light sources into ‘natural’ and ‘artificial.’ We realised that some objects are just reflective or shiny and are not light sources. We also investigated which materials cast the strongest and weakest shadows. Wood cast the strongest shadow because it was most opaque. Bubble wrap cast the weakest shadow since it is transluscent.
Please remember to be at school early on Monday for swimming. The Y4 children will be coming in at 8.40 for registration so as to walk up in time to be in the water at 9:10am for our lesson.
We enjoyed hearing ‘Canary Across the Mersey’ read to us and hearing from the author Dr. Mike Boyle. Mae won our costume competition. Well done to all who dressed up as favourite book characters. We believe that by the time Mrs. Marsh entered the room in full Hogwart’s regalia, we had in fact broken the world record for the largest number of Harry Potters and Hermiones in one classroom!
We are making globes of the world. When they are dry we will add the countries, equator, poles and any other features we have learnt about in our topic so far.
We had lovely weather yesterday for our Bake Sale. Thank – you to everyone for your donations of cakes, biscuits etc. and really well done to the children for their enthusiasm in organising and selling. We do not know the final totals yet, but thank you to all for your generous giving. The children really enjoyed it.
Thank you for coming to our assembly this morning. The children really enjoyed performing this morning and they all really shone in their efforts to learn and to present the words and song.
