In  our computing lessons in Year 4 this half term we have been exploring the important ideas of sequencing and repetition using a simple programing language called logo.  It has helped us to develop some important computational thinking skills – including persistence!  Today we applied what we have learnt in a different context, using a visual programing environment.

If you would like to have a go at home, just click on the picture!

Year 4 used their coding skills to create these amazing bouquets!

In Year 4 we have been using Logo, a text-based computer programming language, to explore shape.  In this week’s lesson we started to use the power of repetition to help make the algorithms that we wrote as efficient as possible – and discovered that using spaces and punctuation correctly is really important when we are writing instructions for the Logo on-screen robot!  A key skill we are developing is ‘debugging’ – the process of finding and fixing the problems (or ‘bugs’) in our code.  This, together with persistence, is a very important part of computational thinking!

Make a Noise about Bullying

This week has been anti-bullying week in school. This year has been about ‘Making a Noise about Bullying’. We have been talking about empathy and seeing if we can identify people’s emotions. We also did some role play about bullying.

This Week…

Year 4 are learning about how to write a letter. We are going to use our new skills to write a letter to invite someone from home to our Celebration Assembly about St Andrew’s Day.

We will send out our invitations on Friday.

St Therese of Lisieux

On Thursday, in Mass, year 4 are celebrating the feast day of St Therese. Family and friends are welcome to celebrate with us in Mass. We hope to see you on Thursday.