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English- term 1 we are reading The Sound of Silence by Katrina Goldsaito and The Lost Words. The sound of silence is about the main character Yoshio thinking Tokyo sounds like a symphony hall! He delights in everyday sounds--shoes squishing through puddles, raindrops pattering down, and lots of giggles! But one day he meets a musician who tells Yoshio that her favourite sound is ma, the Japanese word for the sound of silence. Yoshio must hear this! But how can he find it amid the hustle and bustle of the city?

The Lost Words highlights the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a celebration - in art and word - of nature and its wonders. With acrostic spell-poems, this book evokes the magic of language and nature.

Please learn your times tables- look at the video below see how fast you could be!

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Computing

We are learning about animation.

Today we had our first session with Musicate. The programme is run through the Cheltenham festival. We met musicians and listened to them playing their instruments. We are excited to carry on this work in October.

Music

A fantastic morning was had by all in Year 4 with resident Musicate’s, Julien and Nick. We started the session off with a bit of a warm up; the children had to take turns by leading different body movements for the rest of the class to follow, getting us ready for the session. We then had to practice our listening skills so that we could clap out a pattern one at a time, while remembering what the last person had clapped to pair with a new pattern. After we practiced this, we were excited to listen to a new piece of music – Flying by John Williams. Some of us had not heard this before so we discussed all of the things we could hear, how it made us feel and got a chance to draw what we could picture whilst listening to the piece. The session then ended with us using some body percussion to become a rainforest orchestra! We agreed on different movements for different sounds and put these all together to make our orchestra come alive! There was rain, thunder and even some monkeys.