Wow! We have had such a jam-packed week in 4A. 

This week has been Parliament Week across school. We started our learning by looking at the differences between the two chambers in parliament. We learnt that members of the House of Commons are elected by the British public whereas the House of Lords is made up of experts across different fields and is not elected by the British public. We then made our classroom into the House of Commons to debate an issue. We all took part in a (mostly) civilised debate with Mr Ash taking the role of the speaker. 

On Wednesday, we were incredibly lucky to host a live music concert from a local group of folk musicians. We learnt about lots of different instruments from a cello to an accordion. The experience allowed us to listen to a different type of music and we even had the opportunity to join in the performance. We all really enjoyed this opportunity – which was shown by our beaming smiles throughout. 

In Art, we worked on gestural drawings to represent a Roman soldier. We initially started our Art sessions by creating our own drawings, making sure to use our whole arm and ensuring our drawings weren’t too detailed. The technique allowed us to create pieces that showed the motion of the images we were capturing. We held another session in which we redrew our images but worked on a collective piece to create a tapestry.   

Our TTrockstar of the week is Phoebe. Our Lexia legends are Zara and Tahha as both completed their next level on Lexia. Book club this week was hosted by Enes and Emila. They chose ‘Savitri’s Tales’ by Anthony Horowitz and ‘Why do Snakes Slither’ by Miles Kelly.