Welcome to Year 4!

This week so far: 

English: This week we have completed their write for pleasure Viking Saga. We have looked at the story of how Odin created the three worlds Jotunheim, Midgard, and Asgard. We then thought about what other worlds Odin could have created. After editing and publishing their work the students took part in an 'authors chair' day where they had the opportunity to read their stories to the class.

Maths: This week we have completed our topic of addition and subtraction looking at estimating answers by rounding. We then completed the end of block assessment for this topic.

Science: This week continued our topic of Habitats by looking at the human impact on animals. We discussed how humans can have both a positive and negative impact on wildlife and how certain animals have become endangered due to human impact.

Music: This week students looked at music inspired by the Viking era. We listened to an extract from 'En Saga' by Jean Sibelius and discussed the tempo and dynamics and then listened to an extract from 'Das Rheingold' by Richard Wagner and repeated the exercise. We then sang and  performed a song called Loki The Joker creating our own actions for the song. We finished our topic by composing a piece of music to tell the story of how Odin created the different worlds. Students had to consider what the best instrument, tempo and dynamics would fit each of the six worlds.

RE: This week we explored how Jesus continues to inspire people today. We considered different ways his life has effected people and then put these into a diamond 9 shape to demonstrate what we felt was his biggest impact.

PE: This term in PE we are doing tag rugby and football.