Term 1 – Week 4

Year 3/4 have had a great week of learning again this week. At nearly half way through term 1, we are all settling into our classes well and following our rules of ready, respectful and safe to ensure we can do our very best learning.

We started our week with a Harvest assembly led by Reverend Madeley. We thought about where our food comes from and gave thanks for all that we have. We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who made donations to support this. All were gratefully received and will now be delivered to Weston Foodbank.

In Chandra’s PSHE lesson we looked at who made up our community. We were very impressed by all of the roles and people hat we could think of and how these roles/people helped our learning journey.

As linguists this week year 3/4 recapped and practiced our numbers to 10 and next week we are moving onto higher numbers.

As writers this week, we have continued our work on Beowulf. We are working towards writing a persuasive speech. To help us prepare for this we read chapter 5 today and thought about how the events of Beowulf’s battle with Grendel are sequenced.

We looked at Beowulf’s interactions with different characters in the story and practiced how the characters would speak to each other, preparing for writing in role of Beowulf next week. We also had the opportunity to hot seat a different character this week and we asked Beowulf lots of questions about what has happened so far and how he felt.

In our enquiry this week, we learned about what life might have been like in Britain for Anglo-Saxons. We made connections with the text we’re reading, Beowulf. We used it to help us explore what they believed and how they lived. From the story Beowulf, we discovered that the Anglo-Saxons were Pagans and believed in many gods. Their society was organised into levels with kings at the top and slaves at the bottom.

In PE, we have continued to develop our hockey skills. We are practising holding our stick correctly, dribbling with control whilst changing direction and passing to our partner’s stick…

We also continued to look at our balancing and footwork skills to make us even better athletes to help us in our hockey lessons.