Class 4 | Wolsey House Primary School

The Big Pictures

Welcome to Class 4!

Your class teacher is Mrs Satchwell.

Our PE day is Wednesday. We have swimming on a Thursday

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Life in Roman Britain Life in Roman Britain is shown through the eyes of a typical family nearly 2000 years ago. The Romans bring towns to Britain, and also roads, forts, and Hadrian’s Wall, to keep out the Picts. The father is supervising the building of Hadrian’s Wall, while the son manages to lose his father’s special military scarf, or focale.

Boudica and The Roman Invasion It's 60AD and the Romans face a serious challenge to their control of Britannia, as the Iceni tribe rebel after the death of Boudica’s father as they try to take over Iceni lands. The Romans seek to consolidate their control of the country, where some tribes accept them and others resent them. Boudica takes advantage of the Roman legions being in North Wales, and sets out to overthrow Roman rule.

Literacy

In Spring 2, we will be reading a novel called 'The Midnight Fox' by Betsy Byars.

What do you think will happen in the story?

What evidence from the front cover do you have to support your ideas?

Year 4 went to Twycross Zoo!

Computing

In Computing, we have been learning some new vocabulary all about coding!

Science Week!

Last week, Wolsey House Primary School enjoyed a week of scientific discovery!

We learned all about the Apollo 11 landing on the moon 50 years ago and even had a real scientist visit us for an assembly.

As part of this week, we also conducted two investigations. One was to test different meteor weights and sizes and compare the creators made on impact. We also tested some of our own rockets, looking at what a rocket needs to reach space and discussing forces such as friction and air resistance.

Class 4's Rocket Investigation

Filbert Fox came to visit!

Diwali Day - Rangoli Patterns

Roman Numerals

To help you remember your Roman Numerals!

In our Reading Comprehension sessions, we are currently reading the Atlas of Adventure! We have looked at the Amazon Rainforest to link with our geography work!

First 2 weeks back

In the first 2 weeks back, the whole school took part in an "Our Leicester" project. Year 4 was asked to look at Leicester sports teams and their history.

We learned about Leicester City Football club, how they started and all their own kits. We even designed and made our own 2020 kits.

We also looked into Speedway and the Leicester Lions! We investigated what material would make a good race track and talked a lot about the importance of friction.

Another amazing discovery was that Jennie Fletcher (Mr Fletcher's great aunt!) won an Olympic gold medal for swimming! We had great fun generating questions and interviewing Mr Fletcher.

Computing

Want to try out your coding skills before our lessons? Have a go at animating your name using Scratch!

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=name