Broadford Year 3/4

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.