Year 4 Learning Challenge - Autumn 2

Please see below the new Learning Challenge for this term. We look forward to seeing any fabulous projects completed by the children at home.

The children in Year 4 are now getting very confident using G-Suite, so a suggestion could be for them to compile their project on Google slides if they have internet access at home. They could then present their project to the children at School.

Year 3 Learning Challenge for Autumn  2

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are delighted to provide you with the Year 3 Learning Challenge for this

half of the Autumn Term.

This learning challenge gives the children the opportunity to foster a love of

learning from a number of perspectives.

It is entirely up to your child whether they select the poem, significant person,

music or painting, or a combination of all 4. They can also select the activities

that they want to attempt, though we would encourage them to be ambitious

and to deepen their learning as much as possible. Although the Learning

Challenge is entirely optional, and is in addition to the daily expectation of 15

minutes’ reading, 15 minutes’ times tables rehearsal and 15 minutes’ spellings

practice, we have found that a large proportion of children have voluntarily

taken up the challenge and have gained a great deal from it. We would therefore

greatly appreciate your encouragement to participate.

The children will receive a special Learning Challenge certificate at the end of

the half term on completion of a project that shows a significant level of effort

and challenge undertaken. Should you have any problems regarding this, or any

other issue, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor and Mr Nicol

	Poem	Painting	Person	Composer
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist	Draw a portrait of the person	Listen to a piece of music
	Find another poem by the poet	Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist	Produce a timeline of their life	Identify the instruments.
Advanced	Create a performance as part of a pair/group	Draw a picture in similar style	Produce a poster to advertise their achievements	Research the life of the composer.
	Write a short biography about the poet	Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of painting	Write a letter asking them about their life	Attempt to recreate the piece of music
Deep	Write your own poem inspired by the topic	Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC	Explain how the world would be without this person	A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points in the piece
	Compare and contrast two poems by the poet	Describe what the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on	Give five reasons for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of Fame’	Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes you feel.

Significant Person - Charles Darwin

Painting - The Cave Paining of Lascaux - France

Music- Radetzky March

BY JOHANN STRAUSS 

Poem - Stonehenge

by Brian Moses

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I remember Stonehenge

in the days where you could still

get close to the stones.

I remember being there, seeing their bulk

and feeling their solid substance.

It was the past brought close,

I could hear the tick of time,

the heartbeat of history.

If only the stones were transmitters,

they could broadcast their story,

answer the ‘whys’ of Stonehenge,

why Salisbury Plain gained

such a monument, why it was built,

was it temple or tomb?

It only we could summon solutions

from the sky, the clouds, the hills,

from those witnesses to the march

of these monoliths, to their positioning

and their raising.

And if only we knew who built this circle,

who mourned the winter sun

as the solstice darkened the day.

Did they ever imagine the puzzle

they were leaving behind?

And I wonder again at the thread

between present and past,

at all those who have stood

by these stones, hoping to hear

some sort of message

to the living from the dead,

so one of history’s mysteries

might be solved at last.

Year 3 Spellings 29.10.18

A	B
information	information
because	because
couldn’t	couldn’t
coming	coming
could	could
cold	cold
would	would
description	description
descriptive	descriptive
subject	subject
text	text
conclusion	bed
language	bad
paragraphs	been
vocabulary	best
diagram	better
fabulous	am
hazardous	any
famous	all
tremendous	about
enormous	away

Awards in Year 3 - 19.10.18

More awards in Sequoia Class this week Chris and Katlyn receieved Resilience awards and Jacob 'Made his Teacher happy.

Riley and Molly received there bookmarks for reading 10 books each and Harry received his Silver Award.  Keep up all the great reading!

More Science in Year 3!

Sequoia Class have been doing lots of Science lately.  They have been carrying out numerous experiments in teams, relating to our topic of senses.  On this particular day the children were required to take part in an experiment regarding sound.  In teams they were given head phones and alarm clocks.  Before the experiments began they had to make a prediction; Would they hear better with or without the head phones? They carried out the experiment and then wrote up their findings.  A number of the teams worked well and demonstrated reciprocity.  Everyone had a job and the experiments were carried out fairly, resulting in findings that made sense and proved most of their predictions true. Riley said to Malachi " We will help you count the noise on the measuring wheel".

Awards in Year 3 12.10.18

In Sequoia class Malachi, Nela, Kaley, Klaidi, Riley and Brooke demonstrated fantastic team work during and scientific experiment. They received a reciprocity award. You can see more detail on the Science blog.

Sequoia Class at MOD Pizza

Sequoia Class had a a great time at MOD Pizza restaurant. This was an exceptionally useful tool to support their Literacy topic.  The children had been working on instruction writing back at school and were aware that they would have to write their own set of instructions for making a pizza later that week.  The children all created their own pizza's, whilst demonstrating resourcefulness and independence.  

Some of the children were very adventurers with their toppings.  Tilly said "I love anchovies".

Year 4 Spellings 29.11.18

Welcome back to a new half term which promises to be a busy one! See below the spellings for this week. Please ensure they are completed and spelling books are brought back into school on a Friday.

Remember, extra merits are given to those children who go that extra mile to learn and understand their spellings by researching the definition and putting the word into their own sentences. If this is done every week that's a whopping extra 30 merits they could earn this year just from super spelling homework alone!

Happy spelling!

A	B	C
luminous	luminous	luminous
peace	ate	one
piece	eight	won
sight	heard	make
site	herd	smile
soul	wait	wear
sole	weight	where
draught	your	right
draft	you’re	write
aloud	flour	wood
allowed	flower	would
there	there	there
their	their	their
they’re	they’re	they’re
which	which	because
witch	witch	they
column	column	saw
olympics	olympics	why
Empire	Empire	who
vase	vase	vase
alphabet	alphabet	poem