Northmoor AcademyYear 4 - Amethyst and Citrine Classes: Blog items
Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 9:38pm
Year 3 Coral class and our school choir attended the Oldham Music Festival with a selection of schools from the Oldham area on Monday. The children had a wonderful, time taking part in some vocal warm-ups, harmonising and singing their hearts out with added actions. Well done to all the pupils that took part!
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 2:31pm
Date: 1st May 2024 @ 12:22pm
In Year 4 we have explored wire sculpture and linked it with our rainforest topic.
Date: 20th Mar 2024 @ 12:29pm
Today in year 4 we have been looking at ways to prevent deforestation within the Amazon Rainforest.
Date: 6th Mar 2024 @ 9:29pm
Date: 8th Feb 2024 @ 8:28am
As part of Safer Internet Day, our years 4 - 6 classes have worked together to identify some of the reasons why we make certain choices on the internet.
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 1:21pm
In Year 4, our topic for the Spring term is 'Under the Canopy' where we study the rainforests of the world.
We have made terrariums to mimic how the water cycle works in a rainforest.
Date: 13th Dec 2023 @ 4:55pm
Today our Northmoor choir went to sing at Chadderton Tesco. We were very excited to entertain the public. Many people stood and listened to our wonderful singing before moving on to do their shopping. I hope we were able to put a smile on peoples faces as big as the ones that we had!
Date: 14th Nov 2023 @ 11:21am
To start our science topic of electricity, we were given a bulb, wires and a power source and had to try and make the bulb light up. We had a brilliant time investigating what we needed to do to create a circuit.
Date: 14th Nov 2023 @ 10:41am
As part of our work on the text 'Last Stop on Market Street' we went on a local area walk to try to look at Oldham in a different way. We were very impressed with Tommyfield Market!
Date: 30th Oct 2023 @ 5:58pm
Year 4 visited the Shree Swaminarayan Mandir in Oldham as part of our R.E. Topic this half term. We asked lots of questions and this helped us to consolidate everything we had learnt in class.
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 10:26am
Year 4 have been busy this half term, designing and creating their Greek pots as part of the topic "Ancient Greece is the Word."
Outdoor Maths and Flexible Partitioning
Date: 9th Oct 2023 @ 2:28pm
Year 4 have been practising flexible partitioning (making numbers up in different ways).
We had lots of fun and it really helped our understanding.
Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 2:49pm
Date: 21st Jun 2023 @ 1:09pm
Year 4 brass players had a wonderful time playing with the world-famous Halle orchestra at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester this week.
They have been practising playing their pieces this half term and we were very proud of how well they played. They also had the opportunity to listen to the Halle play famous pieces too. It was mesmerising!
Date: 14th Jun 2023 @ 2:30pm
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Date: 9th Nov 2022 @ 8:00am
On Monday, Citrine class went on a local area walk around Oldham to get some inspiration for our Big Write this week - a dairy entry based on the story 'The Last Stop on Market Street'! While it was a little drizzly, we were able to find some very interesting things to talk about such as the mural of Oldham, the mechanic and his dog, and the bird hotel!
Date: 22nd Oct 2022 @ 7:34pm
We were studying The Worst Witch this week as part of our "Inspiration Texts" Curriculum Week. When we came into school on Monday morning, we actually walked in to Miss Cackle's Academy! We have completed character descriptions, created instructions for spells, made maths potions as well as creating our own animals and studying the history or witchcraft.
Year 4 - Oldham Library Theatre Trip
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 10:07am
Year 4 were lucky enough to get invited to Oldham Library Theatre to see a performance of Grandad Anansi. The children loved the story and so did the teachers. The children walked through town very, very sensibly and were a credit to the school.
Year 4 Citrine Investigating States of Matter
Date: 5th Oct 2022 @ 3:53pm
In science we had a fantastic lesson on states of matter! We needed to poke, mix, pour and sprinkle different substances to decide what could be considered and liquid and what could be considered a solid. It got very messy but we had a lot of fun!
