Year 4
Year 4 have been learning how to drum.
Year 4 learned about aparthied and the South African flag this week.
On Monday 13th March, Google came to Hannah More with their Virtual Reality (VR) Headsets!
Here are some blog posts from Year 4 Swift children.
We had a lot of fun at Hannah More on World Book Day this week! Here are some of the pictures, and a blog from Frankie (Y4 Swift).
On Tuesday 7th February 2017, Year 4 took part in Safer Internet Day: an e-safety event that happens all around the world.
This week, Year 4 have been representing numbers using place value counters and recording this with iPads.
Year 4's topic for the term is The Romans! So on Thursday we all took a trip to the Roman Baths in Bath!
The children had the challenge of creating the tallest
strongest tower that could stay standing against the “Hairdryer of DOOM” on
Friday morning.
This afternoon Year 4 Swift has been practising their team building skills in the Play Pod.
The Play Pod is a fantastic resource we have here at Hannah More that the children can use during their lunch time to build things and be creative with. The children worked as a team to make cars out of the amazing materials and resources that we have in our fantastic Play Pod in the playground which the children can use during lunchtimes.
Their task was to work together as a team to build a car. They were told that the winning team would be the one that showed the best team work skills. They began by huddling in their teams (as the photos show) to discuss their plan and what resources they might want to use from the Play Pod before they began to build.
Both teams worked collaboratively and shared ideas, respecting what each other brought to the team and the building process. They both came up with very unique cars, all with enough seats for each member of the team and were very excited to get in and take it for a spin. It was great to see that both cars came with seatbelts fitted into every seat!
Take a look at the photos to see what amazing creations they came up with!
Our challenge during local history week was...
Who was this man and how did he have such an influence on thousands of people's lives?
We asked the two visitors historically valid questions to find out more! In addition, we used a range of sources to infer information from. Such as: images, photos, artefacts and biographies. When handling the artfeacts we asked questions about what there were, their uses and who would use them.
Furthermore, we used these sources to rewrite our own biographies in the role of an Orphan. We even dressed up in the clothes that they would wear! We used drama to show how the Orphans might feel, we used our empathy and imagining skills.
For example: 'How many children went to the Orphanage?' 'Who worked there?' 'What did the Orphans do when they left the Orphanage?'
Today we has our first Bouldering lesson at the TCA Climbing Centre! More photos to follow soon...
Sadly, Swift class have come to the end of their Philosophy lessons with Alfie! We have enjoyed it and will continue to use the skills we have learnt!
We have found Philosophy useful because:
- It helps us with asking specific questions
- We have learnt how to give evidence
- We have learnt how to agree and disagree agreeably
- We have learnt how to have a debate
- We understand it is ok to have a different opinion
- We can give more than 1 reason as evidence
- We have shown empathy to others
- We have improved our listening
Sadly, Swift have come to the end of their Philosophy lessons with Alfie! We have enjoyed it and will continue to use the skills we have learnt!
We have found Philosophy useful because:
- It helps us with asking specific questions
- We have learnt how to give evidence
- We have learnt how to agree and disagree agreeably
- We have learnt how to have a debate
- We understand it is ok to have a different opinion
- We can give more than 1 reason as evidence
- We have shown empathy to others
- We have improved our listening
On Monday in Swift we learnt right angles and straight angles.
We created angle dances! First we were given a challenge to either show 90 degrees or 180 degrees. We collaborated in groups to practise different moves. We used our arms, legs, feet and eachother!
By Shania
On Monday in Swift we learnt right angles and straight angles.
We created angle dances! First we were given a challenge to either show 90 degrees or 180 degrees. We collaborated in groups to practise different moves. We used our arms, legs, feet and eachother!
By Shania
On Monday in Swift we learnt right angles and straight angles.
We created angle dances! First we were given a challenge to either show 90 degrees or 180 degrees. We collaborated in groups to practise different moves. We used our arms, legs, feet and eachother!
By Shania
On Monday in Swift we learnt right angles and straight angles... read on to find out more!
Philosophy!
Excitingly, Swift class have had their first Philosophy lesson with Alfie from Bristol University. We will be having Philosophy lessons every Wednesday afternoons.
Well what is Philosophy? So that we could begin to understand what Philosophy is, we asked Alfie some questions. Next, he gave us a set of questions; in groups we collaborated to sort them into piles. Questions which we thought were not Philosophical (they had an answer) and questions which we thought were Philosophical.
After a lot of discussion and debating, these were some examples we agreed were Philosophical:
If a tree fell down in a forest and made a sound, would there be a sound if no one was there to hear it?
Do we dream only in our sleep?
Why can’t a stick be a sword?
We have been learning all about how Christianity and Hinduism both have symbols that represent a meaning.