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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.

Term 2 we are reading Escape to Pompeii, this will enhance our learning in History.

Term 3 we are reading Odysseus/Orchard book of Greek Myths. This will again enhance our History learning. We are excited to read many Greek myths including Theseus & the Minotaur, Heracles, Daedalus & Icarus, The Wooden Horse and Pandora's Box.

Term 4 we are reading Who let the Gods Out by Maz Evans.

A taster ...

'When Elliot wishes upon a star, he doesn't expect a constellation to crash into a dungheap on his family farm.

The star is Virgo. She thinks she's perfect. Elliot doesn't. And together they release Thanatos, evil Daemon of Death ... epic fail.

They need the King of the Gods and his noble steed. Instead, they get Zeus and his high horse Pegasus.

Are the Gods really ready to save the world? And is the world really ready for the Gods?'

Term 5 we are focussing on Geography; our local area and caring for our environment. We are using two text to enhance our learning. These are Window and Greta and the Giants.

Window is looks at our changing environment. A mother and baby look through a window at a view of wilderness and sky as far as the eye can see. With each page, the boy grows and the scene changes. At first, in a clear patch of forest, a single house appears. A few years pass and there is a village in the distance… When the boy is twenty, will he recognize the view from his window?

Greta and The Giants ... Greta is a little girl who lives in a beautiful forest threatened by Giants. When the Giants first came to the forest, they chopped down trees to make houses. Then they chopped down more trees and made even bigger homes. The houses grew into towns and the towns grew into cities, until now there is hardly any forest left. Greta knows she has to help the animals who live in the forest, but how? Luckily, Greta has an idea…

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.