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Month: October 2021

English -NCR

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Our next English Unit is a Non Chronological Report (NCR) and our model text that will support our learning is called the ‘Birds’

During this unit, our skills sessions will focus on generalisers such as ‘some, many, all’, the construction of paragraphs through the use of ‘the paragraph hand’ and we will also be recapping on the writing basics of capital letters, full stops and commas to help make our writing flow.

Our spelling lessons will focus on homophones and ‘u’ spelt as ‘ou’ and we have carefully selected five year 3/4 additional words for the children to learn each week that link well to the English Unit.  We hope the children will go on to use these words in their innovate and independent writes.

The children have already spent some time designing their own animal as part of a WOW starter along with learning the model text and unpicking the story map.  Over the next couple of weeks they will be practising the skills and writing their own NCR.

Please see below for a copy of the  text and story map.

Birds text

story map for BIRDS

Join the R.A.F

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Continuing with our look at WW2, children across year 4 have  been learning about the aircraft used in the war on both the British and German sides.  They discovered that  Britain used Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancaster Bombers and that the Germans used Messerschmitt 109’s and 110’s and Junkers.  We learnt about the similarities and differences between the aircraft and looked at the insignia used.

During the next lesson, the children learnt about the R.A.F and the need to recruit new members in the lead up to and during the war.  We studied a variety of wartime posters and the children then worked in pairs to create their own R.A.F recruitment poster.  Have a look at some of the posters created, below.

Black History Month

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October marks Black History Month in the UK and here at BCPA we will be sharing, celebrating in and understanding the impact of black heritage and culture from both the past and present.  When planning any unit of work we try our best to ensure that views are balanced and that we focus on the amazing achievements of white and black figures but  Black History Month provides us with an additional opportunity to shine a well deserved spotlight on people we may not otherwise have an opportunity to learn about.

Each year group will be focusing on a different aspect of Black History and we are delighted to be exploring Black Art and Culture as well as exploring other historical figures through a series of additional assemblies.

As a year group we have selected some very inspirational artists and musicians to study.  Each classes will learn about the same people but the days these lessons take place may vary from class to class to best suit timetables.

Yesterday, 4PG learnt about Idris Ela.  Some of the children even recognised him from the television!  They discovered that he was born in London but that his mother comes from Ghana and his father from Sierra Leonne.    Keen to find out more, the children explored the class room for clues and produced some excellent fact files.  They were given freedom to present the work in a range of different ways.  Take a look at the work below and please keep checking back as more work will be added.

 

 

 

     

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