Today, we are writing up our first independent masterpiece in writing. We have completed two weeks completing a modeled and shared version of a persuasive leaflet to persuade somebody to go to Peak Venture. We looked at some really funny photographs to go with this! Now, we have handed over the control to the children and they had to create their own version of Peak Venture and then complete a persuasive leaflet about that. I gave the children loads of time to plan and create their own version. There are some super ideas. The children then had to write and structure their own leaflet with no adult support. This was quite challenging and previously writing has been very scaffolded but the children are starting to show what they can do. Each child had a completely unique adventure centre and they all had different audiences to write for. Some chose younger children and some chose older children. Well done everybody! You have worked well for the past three weeks!

Today, Year 4 have been completing more work on FMSLogo. We are really enjoying this practical unit and so far, we are doing extremely well. We have looked at creating code for different numbers and letters and today we completed some code to create a shape. The shape in questions was a square. To make a square, we had to:

Go forwards 100
Turn right 90 degrees
Go forwards 100
​Turn right 90 degrees
Go forwards 100
​Turn right 90 degrees
Go forwards 100
​Turn right 90 degrees

To put that into code, we would put,

FD 100
RT 90
FD 100
​RT 90
FD 100
​RT 90
FD 100
​RT 90

However, today, we used the repeat function so instead of writing out the entire thing, we just had to write:

Repeat 4 [FD 100 RT 90]

We then looked at making a smaller and larger square and thinking about changing only one thing in our code to do this. It was really interesting and the children were able to create and amend code really well. 

In Science, we have been learning about sound. We have been learning that sounds are created when something vibrates. We have looked at a range of different objects that make sound and seen the vibrations that are caused. We really enjoyed working with tuning forks and looking at how they make water splash when it is put into it. Thank you to all of the children that brought in musical instruments to show this further.