Living and Learning
Although this week’s Living and Learning statement is about summarising the work on the 8Rs we’ve been focusing on so far this half term, this week we had a visit from Dove to talk about body image.
We explored where pressure comes from for us to consider our appearance too much. Some really interesting videos showed us just how much an image we might see in professional media can be manipulated. Then, we discussed different points of the video in groups.
When we were sharing our thoughts, we had some really thoughtful and mature points to make:
Super writing
Year 4 have been busy writing their very own recipes. All of the children have worked hard to structure their work according to the purpose. It is always great to see children using their learning environment (walls) and dictionaries to aid their writing.
Mr Owen and I have also given the class the choice of a pen or pencil to write with. Some of the class have a preference and we have seen such an improvement in handwriting and presentation.
Keep up the good work, Year 4!
Half term boys gymnastics
Active travel winner
To mark International Walk to School month and our recent promotion of the Park and Stride site at Marks and Spencer, we are running a prize draw every week in October.
All children who make an active journey (bike, scoot, walk or park and stride) every day for each week are entered into a prize draw.
Each Friday in October, we will select a winner at random to win a £10 Love2Shop gift voucher.
Here’s our first winner. Keep up those active journeys to be in with a chance to win the next prize.
Class assembly reminder – 2:40pm Wednesday 10 October
This Wednesday is our Year 2 class assembly, starting at 2:40pm.
We look forward to sharing our learning with you and hope to see lots of you there!
What is one?
The children have been learning all about the number one by investigating and using one in a variety of situations:
- as the answer to ‘how many?’
- one is an amount
- one is a quantity
- first means position one
- once means one time
We have been encouraging the children to use a sentence stem to talk about a single unit, e.g. “I can see one apple.”
Talk Time Homework
Our Talk Time homework got us discussing who we would take with us if we went back in time. We talk in partners first, sharing who we would take.
Then, we all listened as a table.
Finally, we shared some with the class that we thought were particularly interesting:
Pia would take David Attenborough and she would visit the person who invented plastic. Together, they would explain to the inventor what problems their invention would cause. We thought this was a brilliant, thoughtful idea.
Ishaan would take Thomas because he has such a good historical knowledge.
Ripley would take Gottlieb Daimler to see what cars used to look like. He would also visit the year 0 to see whether Jesus actually was born then.
Lewis would take Lewis Hamilton and together they would go back in time to meet Ayrton Senna.
Ethan would need a minibus for his trip! He said he’d take Thomas, a translator, friends and Owen from Jurassic World.
Designing Roman Chariots
Part of the Year 4 expectations for Design and Technology is that children are able to research design criteria to inform the design of functional, appealing products.
Also, children need to be able to generate, develop and communicate their ideas through discussion and annotated sketches.
With all this in mind, Year 4 set about designing Roman chariots. Continuing on with our travels through history, exploring transportation, the next stop – the Romans.
As a class, we discussed the difference in transport for pleasure and transport for industrial purposes. In the Roman Empire, chariots were not used for warfare or work purposes, but for chariot racing, especially in circuses, or for triumphal processions, when they could be drawn by as many as ten horses or even by dogs, tigers, or ostriches!
- Following lots of research, work began on our very own chariots. The children worked hard to annotate their sketches while thinking about a design criteria.
- can move
- can hold a person (Lego)
- pulled by horsepower (toy)
- move over rocky terrain
There are some superb designs below.
More cave paintings
Below are some more of our recent cave paintings. The children worked very hard to create pattern, detail and texture.
Year 3 reviews the History of Britain performance
After the Hobgoblin performance, Year 3 were asked to reflect on, and review the performance.
Their first challenge was to review the performance with one sentence. See what they came up with, below.
- I liked the end part because it shows you should pay attention!
- I liked the cooking show when the man smacked his hand on the table.
- We liked it when the man waved at Miss Rushbrooke!
- I liked it when the parrots kissed.
The class was then challenged to describe the play, in just 5 words. See how they rose to the challenge below.
- The man was very funny.
- I really liked Robin Hood.
- I loved all of it!
- There was so much chaos!
Well done Year 3 – excellent reviews!