Year 4 - Spring 2 - Week 3
Date: 8th Mar 2022 @ 8:43pm
Yet another wonderful week here in Year 4, filled with so many exciting learning opportunities!
Continuing with our focus surrounding trust and betrayal in the Easter Story, this week, we were introduced to the characters, setting and plot of the Easter Story. We split the Easter story into sections, selecting those parts of the story that highlight trust and those that show betrayal. We then connected our learning back to our understanding of characteristics shown by trustworthy people, in order to categorise the events.
We have truly worked hard this week to master direct speech and the use of inverted commas. By using the story ‘When the Giant Stirred’, we explored thoughts and feelings of the islanders during a time of uncertainty, as the volcano began to erupt. We had to ensure that when a new islander was speaking, we used a new line to represent the change in speaker. In Guided Reading, we unpicked the verses of the poem ‘It couldn’t be done’, to find words that explained the characters feelings, thoughts and motives. Repeated words were also a feature of this poem, so we used this as an opportunity to discuss the effect repetition has on the reader.
Practice assessments have also taken up most of our Maths, Writing and Reading sessions this week. The children have tried their hardest and shown plenty of resilience when approaching tricky questions. They should feel very proud of themselves!
In History, we began to explore the rise of the Romans and described some of the technology advances the Romans brought to Britain. We then explored the events surrounding Boudicca’s revolt and how she led a major uprising against occupying Roman forces. In Music, our clarinet lessons are going from strength to strength. This week, not only did we learn how to blow into our clarinet to produce a sound, we also mastered how to put all the different parts of our clarinets together, to make a complete instrument.
A huge thank you to Scientist Matt, for joining us this morning to share how he became a Scientist and the mirco-organism discoveries he has made. We were inspired to hear all about how his passion for Science started at TSP. We also had the pleasure of being joined by two police officers, who also attended TSP! They spent time informing us of their daily roles and responsibilities, before answering questions regarding their careers.
To mark International Women’s Day, we selected inspirational women to honour in our own picture frames. In the outside of our frames, we added words to highlight how inspirational and powerful these women truly are. It was also insightful to discuss with one of our police officer visitors, how they feel about being a woman in the force.
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Reminders:
-Children need to come into school dressed in their PE kit on Wednesday 16th March for their Dance workshop.
-Weekly spellings are set every Friday and tested in school the following Thursday.
-Please ensure your child is reading daily at home. Should your child be struggling to find a book at home they wish to read, they can borrow a book from the school library.