In music this term, Turing class have been starting to learn the clarinet.
In art this term we have been exploring still life artists, such as Paul Cezanne, Hilary Pecis and Nicole Dyer. We have been using their work as inspiration to recreate our own, whilst also exploring our thoughts and feelings about their work.
The whole school were invited to workshops across two days to help make this years lantern parade mascot. They made a duck to go with our new school logo!
On the 29th November we had our art and DT day, we spent the day creating our christmas tree decorations and starting our christmas cards. The decorations we designed were 3D paper stars made from navy and white card. We designed the white star with navy felt tip pens to add some christmas design and patterns.
In History this half term we have been learning about Vikings. We had a surprise visit from two Vikings, Odger and Ulf! They came in arguing with each other as Odger had forgot to tie their longship to nuns bridge, meaning they now have no way to get home! When they arrived in the classroom, they started raiding it. Taking lots of our resources, thankfully, they calmed down and gave us everything back. Odger and Ulf told us all there is to know about Viking life and shared some fun facts. They showed us different battle positions so we could re-enact our own battle.
In PE this term we have started looking at counter balances we can perform with our talk partners. We have learnt how to use our core to keep our balance and have trust in our partners to keep us safe.
We had Ben from Gressenhall farm visit Year 4 to talk to us about seeds. We began the workshop by disecting a bean, finding out about the embryo and how plants grow. We then collected branches and leaves from outside and collected the different seeds from them. With these seeds we identified which tree they came from using our identification sheet. Finally, we planted these seeds into pots with soil ready for them to grow.
This term in music Turing class are learning to play the violoin and the recorder. So far we have learnt the different notes of the violin GDAE, and had a go at playing a basic song.
We have started our art sequence exploring the artist Laura Carlin, who was am illustrator for both adult and children books. After a look into her work and lots of discussions, we created some visual notes.
On Thursday we took a trip to Sutton Hoo to kick off our topic on Anglo-Saxons. We saw the royal burial grounds, explored the exhibition hall to see replicas of findings in the Sutton Hoo grounds and took part in a sand tray archeology activity.
So far in science this term, we have looked at vertebrates and invertebrates. This included a minibeast hunt. We went outside and used pooters to collect invertebrates. We took them back to the classroom to look at and record some information before safetly returning them to their homes.
Our first day in year 4 took us on an adventure to High Lodge! We started the day in the KS2 play area, playing on the ziplines, slides and climbing equiptment. We then took part in a scavenger hunt where we had to find different things in the forest. Before lunch we went round the music trail and after lunch took part in some team games, we played a fun game of tag, dodge ball and skipping. We ended the day by den building in the forest.