Weekly News 08.03.24
English
In English this week, we have continued reading ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. We have focused on persuasive arguments, with our topic being ‘Should refugees come to our country?’. We discussed the negative viewpoints of some of the characters in the book, as well as their parents' views. We then made a list of positives, for both them and us. We included: adverbs of time, first person, modal verbs, formal language, a variety of sentence openers and, as a challenge, rhetorical questions.
Next week, we will be writing a newspaper report about Ahmet’s upsetting story, when he escaped from the war in his country.
We had a great time during World Book Day! We did read for pleasure by reading the book that we brought in a comfy spot with our friends!
Maths
This week we have been learning about the four operations. We have been looking at improving our mental maths by practising related facts, double and halves and adding 3 numbers together in our heads. We aimed to make the question as easy as possible using the commutative law to rearrange the equation.
Next week, we will be looking at time! We will be reading the time on an analogue clock and sharing it as a digital time. We will also look at key time conversions – 60 seconds = 1 minute, 365 = 1 year, etc…
Art
This term we will be drawing in art and this week we are looking at negative space. This is the space around an object and by learning about negative space, we will gain more insight into how an artist’s mind works and how they can draw more complex shapes quickly by seeing the form in the negative space instead. This week, we used this knowledge to make our Mother’s Day cards! We hope you like them!
Thematic
This week we have compared the Islamic Civilisation with other societies of the same time period. In this lesson we found out that during this same period of history in the UK the Anglo-Saxons civilisation ruled (450-1066CE) in what was known as the Dark Ages. We learnt that the Islamic society was considered a more advanced society than the Anglo-Saxons, and compared what life was like in both civilisations. We also looked at a timeline and saw that both civilisations existed at the same time. We will create a comparison table that shows the differences between the Islamic Empire and Anglo-Saxon England c.900CE.
Then, we learnt the differences between primary and secondary sources of historical evidence. In this lesson we looked at a variety of primary and secondary sources of evidence about the Dark Ages in England and the Golden Age of Islam in the Middle East. We recapped the difference between primary and secondary sources and thought about the reliability of different sources. During this time, we thought about why events from the past may be recounted differently by different people and why this might be.
Finally, we ordered events from the past on a timeline. In our last history lesson for this Thematic unit, we placed events from the Golden Age of Islam and the Dark Ages on a timeline. Our timelines spanned from the year 400CE to 1300CE. We put them in chronological order on a timeline, ensuring we think about the amount of time (space on the line) we needed to leave between each event; 450CE – Anglo-Saxons took over England, 750CE – Beginning of the Golden Age of Islam, 965CE Ibn Al-Haytham born, 810CE Abbas Ibn Firnas born, 1066CE – End of Anglo-Saxon rule in England (William the Conqueror invaded, and the Normans took over), 1258CE – End of the Islamic Golden Age.
Love to Learn
This week’s Love to Learn is science focused!
Next week, we are looking at circuits! We know that electricity can come from different places, but how many do you have in your house? Make a list of the different appliances you in your house and organise them into groups. You can include some appliances you used that also require no electricity!
Hand |
Batteries |
Mains (plugged in) |
Wind up torchWooden spoon |
Remote control
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Lamp
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