As Scientists, we learnt how Dichotomous keys can be used to identify and sort living things. We made our own Dichotomous keys to sort local wildlife and sweets.

We enjoyed visiting Moor Allerton library this week. We discovered that books are organised in alphabetical order by the authors’ surname. We had time to look around the library and read a selection of books. Our focus for Lent has been how Jesus spread his message of hope when ‘fishing for men’. We also created our own messages of hope such as, “you matter,” “never give up” and “you belong.”

For our focus on Lent this week, we have been looking at trust and how Jesus had to put his trust in God while he was in the wilderness. We made trust jar and added the names of people we trust. We discovered most of the names were of close friends and family. We also enjoyed having a pancake race for Shrove Tuesday.

We have had art students from Leeds Beckett university working with us in the Art Studio to design ideas for a Room 17 Mascot. We were inspired by our values of faith, community, inspiration and action. The students showed us how to use mixed media to enhance our designs. 4T really impressed me with their creativity.

Week 2 of our Arts Fortnight has included creating Basquiat style portraits, which we added our verse of poetry too. We also learnt how to make a title to use when creating our own prints to use in our positive slogan portraits. Everyone in 4T has also had amazing resilience and focus in learning our poem and dance. Thank you to everyone who came to watch our performance and help us celebrate.

4T have blown me away with their creativity this week. We have started learning our dance, explored the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, written our own verse of poetry based on Maya Angelou and learnt how to paint portraits.

For our shared write this week, 4T have been writing persuasive speeches as Boudica persuading her Celtic army to fight for her. Everyone has been very resourceful using ideas from our model text and toolkit to vary our sentence types and make our speeches emotive using repetition and rhetorical questions.

As ACE Geographers, we investigated the impact of climate change. We set up an experiment about land ice using ice on a tub surrounded by water. We measured how the water increased as the ice melted in our hot classroom. We also looked at places in the world already affected by rising sea levels.

After a snowy start to the year, we have settled back into school. This week we have enjoyed starting our climate change topic and learning about persuasive speech in Writing. We have ended the week with our library session trying books that we wouldn’t usually read to extend our reading range.

In Writing, we have written instructions about how to make a Celtic or Roman shield. In computing we edited the scenes from our Roman film. We have also enjoyed designing and making Christmas decorations. Thank you to all of the children for their hard work this term and all of the support from parents and carers.

Have a lovely festive break. See you on Monday 6th January for the new term.