wb 10.7.23
Date: 14th Jul 2023 @ 8:19am
The year is drawing to a close and I am reflecting on what has been a very successful year for Year 4.
In recent weeks, we have welcomed Miss Holdsworth into the classroom as she embarks on her teaching career. The children have really enjoyed having her and we wish her well in her new job.
We have had a great SRE week, discussing and learning about the changes ahead for our young people and also what a healthy relationship should feel and look like. We have considered what it is to be a good friend and tried to pin down exactly what 'respect' means. The definition we liked best was 'Showing respect is when you care how your actions impact others'.
English has seen us continue our delving into the biography of people who have changed the world. We have found out about the unfortunate events that led to Louis Braille losing his sight. Louis understandably struggled in childhood but eventually used the very tools that blinded him to develop the code now used across the globe. In our final unit of the year, Year 4 dug deep into their fronted adverbial drawer to write an 'adversity narrative' full of description, chronolgy and drama. An adversity narrative is simply a story about someone who overcomes, or even uses, great challenges to leave a life-changing legacy.
Our maths units are also drawing to a close and we are covering a few areas that require a hint more practice- most notably Time. This week, the children have been converting between analogue and digital clocks, as well as 12- and 24-hour clocks.
In our final lesson on Volcanoes, the children have been considering the different climates, activities and perils of living in either England, with its flash floods, or Hawaii, with its volcanoes and earthquakes. We have been recapping our work on tectonic plates and different types of volcanoes.
Finally today, we played our last 'We Will Rock You' on our stringed instruments. They played very impressively, making a beautiful sound and very much in tune!
Looking forward to next week, I am just off to the dungeon to check we have enough glue gun sticks and then I'll go to The Works in the morning for several hundred lollipop sticks! Please remember 4 matching plastic lids and a cereal box or two!
Wishing you a lovely weekend.