Executive Headteacher: Mr M Drakes
Headteacher: Mrs L Nicholls
Learning Challenge
September 2017
Dear Parents and Carers,
We are delighted to provide you with the Learning Challenge for the first half of the Autumn Term.
The activities have been split into Basic, Advanced and Deep Learning. This is designed to ensure that children not only acquire factual knowledge but also gain a further understanding about how their new skills or knowledge can be applied to their own lives or be used to further their cognitive and social development.
The theme of the Learning Challenge for this half of the Autumn Term is “The Romans” It is entirely up to the 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 deepen their learning as much as possible.
Although the Learning challenge is entirely optional, and in addition to the daily expectation of 15 minutes reading, 15 minutes times tables rehearsals 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 be grateful if you could encourage this at home. 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 by the individual child.
We thank you again for your continued support, and look forward to seeing you in the near future.
Yours sincerely,
Miss Daly Mr Nicol
Ash Class Teacher Birch Class Teacher
Year 4 Lead
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Poem
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Painting
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Person
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Music
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Basic
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Learn it off by heart
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Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist
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Draw a portrait of the person
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Listen
to a piece of music
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Find
another poem by the poet
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Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist
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Produce a timeline of their life
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Identify the instruments.
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Advanced
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Create a performance as part of a pair/group
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Draw a picture in similar style
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Produce a poster to advertise their achievements
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Research
the life of the composer.
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Write a short biography about the poet
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Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of
painting
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Write a letter
asking
them about
their life
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Attempt to recreate the piece of music
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Deep
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Write your own poem inspired by the topic
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Use
the image as a
stimulus for
100WC
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Explain how the world would be without this person
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A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points
in the piece
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Compare
and contrast two poems by the poet
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Describe what the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on
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Give
five reasons for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of
Fame’
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Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes
you feel.
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