Focus week - Year 4
A great week for a great year group! We had a lovely visit to the London Dockyard Museum where we got to see how the import and export industry to the rest of the world was started in Britain and how it has progressed since then. The children loved all the transport they went on from walking, bus, DLR and a train. The museum had lovely interactive activities for the children to do and learn from and the day ended with a lovely session looking at different objects from the Tudor times and what they were made of or made from. They looked at waterproof hats, chamber pots, quills, candle stick holders and even had the opportunity to smell different spices and foods that came through the Docks back in the day. We were complimented about the lovely behaviour of our Poverest children who were upholding the values of the school and the teachers were very proud.
During our classwork we have had fun in Spanish learning all about the classroom equipment and bossy verbs (sit, stand, look etc) and the children love doing these lessons.
During our History we have been looking at children in the past and how they used to go out from 5 years old to earn money for the family and become apprentices or even get married at 12. They were hard working and some had bad conditions to live in but did it all for their family. Times have surely changed!
In our Writing in English we are looking at the book called 'Winter's Child' and exploring if we could wish for anything, what could the consequences be? They have been working hard with coordinating conjunctions and prepositional phrases while they write, always striving to do better and make their writing a lot more interesting to read.
Art is still a great topic to end the week with and we have been looking at rainforest animals and insects, the bright colours, making mood boards and exploring with our drawing techniques to better our pictures.
Please remember to get your child to work hard on their times tables as we have some country wide tests coming up and we want to show how amazing our Poverest Year 4 children are. Practice, practice, practice and the children striving to be better will definitely get them to their goals.
