Year 4 - Summer 2 - Week 6

Date: 14th Jul 2022 @ 11:12pm

What a year we have had, Year 4! Our time together has always been full of smiles and laughter and we couldn’t be prouder of each and every one of you.

To celebrate our last week together, we filled our time with our favourite activities and took a look back at our learning from the year. We enjoyed watching ‘How to draw’ videos, copying the drawing skills and getting top tips from some great illustrators. We were delighted at how our drawings came out and how much they resembled the characters and objects we had drawn. Using lots of creativity, we also filmed our own dinosaur movies using a range of camera angles and landscape shots. Using iMovie, we then added our photos and videos to the storyboard to join the clips together and make an opening and closing scene.

Inspired by our visit to Chester Zoo, we took a look back at our photos from the trip and decided upon which animal we wished to use in our Art sketching project. With only half of an animal’s head shot printed onto the page, it was our job to complete the other half using the pattern, shading and lines we could see on the other side. Not to forget the need for the image to be as symmetrical as we could make it. We also used teamwork to design a collaborative piece of artwork, each with our own section of the image to design before working together to piece the image back together to display the finished piece.

In our Mindfulness lesson, we discovered that in the story, The Dot, a little girl named Vashti feels frustrated in art class because she thinks she can't draw.  Her teacher encourages her to make a mark on the paper and this begins her journey into discovering that you can make beautiful art with just DOTS. The story inspired us to make our own artwork, starting with a simple dot. We used the growth mindset we have developed over the year and our increased confidence in knowing we are capable of anything to make some fantastic pieces of art. What imagination and creativity we showed!

What a delight it was to watch the Year 6 Leavers Production this week. There certainly were lots of tears of pride and sadness, as we sent our best wishes for their next steps into High School and thanked them for the memories they have helped us to make at TSP.

The joy and sheer love for learning you have brought to the classroom has been admirable. The memories we have made together and the laughter we have had along the way will be cherished by us all. Thank you to all the fantastic parents/careers who have supported us all this year. Your kind words of support and encouragement really have not gone unmissed. We thank you so much for all your thoughtful gifts and well wishes and hope you all have the most wonderful Summer holidays.

We look forward to watching you all continue to grow as you head into Year 5! Love and big hugs from all in Year 4.