So far this week, Class 4 have been role playing a dramatic extract from Charlotte’s Web. The children had to take on the role of a character and role play Wilbur’s great escape. The children needed to consider using emotive vocabulary and plenty of expression. On Tuesday, the children explored features of a Diary entry. They had to read a diary extract and pick out several features, such as use of the past tense, first person, colloquial language, punctuation for effect and more.

The Year 5 enjoyed another session of Brass in the hall. Year 4 children created a ‘soundscape’ after being absolutely quiet for 1 minute and recording sounds they could hear. Their partner then ‘read’ their soundscape and ‘played’ the sounds that had been recorded. The children also revised high, low, soft and loud sounds.

In Maths, the children used their place value knowledge to add and subtract numbers up to 1000 to a 4-digit number. On Tuesday, the class visited multiplication methods, including the grid method. Children worked confidently multiplying TUxU and TUxTU, clearly showing their calculations in their books. Some children worked on interactive games to revise the use of arrays to understand the concept of multiplication.

During Class worship, the focus was on how we are sometimes given hard ‘jobs’ by God, similar to how Noah was given the job of building his Ark. Noah had to persevere for a long time to build the Ark. Sometime we have to persevere at a job, whether it be helping a friend, working something out in a lesson, building something in school or at home, working hard at friendships etc.

In French, the children had a go at asking each other how old they are. The children also revised the numbers 1-31. Lots of children became really confident at asking ‘Quel âge as-tu?’ and responding by saying ‘J’ai huit/neuf ans’. The children also carried out a maths activity, writing the answers in words in French.

In PE, the children explored different body movements. They played a game where the children stood in a queue and the person at the back had to move to the front. However, the children in the queue created many different body shapes and movements to make it really difficult for the person at the back to move to the front of the queue! This was done to music. The children really enjoyed it.

The children continued to explore Stone Age art and craft work. They made sketches of examples they could find in books and online. They also had a go at creating marks with natural tools, such as sticks, leaves, pine cones, bark etc by dipping them into a charcoal and oil paste. This was good fun!

Well done Class 4.