Executive Headteacher:
Mr M Drakes
Headteacher: Mrs L Smith
Learning Challenge
February 2017
Dear Parents and Carers,
We are delighted to provide you with the Year 4 Learning
Challenge for this half of the Spring Term.
This learning challenge gives the children the chance to look
at an artist, musician, person and a poet relating to what they are learning
about in school. It is entirely up to your child whether they select the poem,
significant person, music or painting, or a combination of all 4. They can also
select the activities that they want to attempt, though we would encourage them
to be ambitious and to deepen their learning as much as possible.
Although the Learning Challenge is entirely optional, and is in
addition to the daily expectation of 15 minutes’ reading, 15 minutes’ times
tables rehearsal and 15 minutes’ spellings practice, we have found that a large
proportion of children have voluntarily taken up the challenge and have gained
a great deal from it. We would therefore greatly appreciate your encouragement
to participate. The children will receive a special Learning Challenge
certificate at the end of the half term on completion of a project that shows a
significant level of effort and challenge undertaken.
Should you have any problems regarding this, or any other
issue, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would like to take this
opportunity to thank you for your continued support, and look forward to
working with you this academic year.
Yours sincerely,
Miss Spinks
Year 3 and 4 Phase Leader
Poem
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Painting
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Person
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Music
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Basic
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Learn it off by heart
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Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist
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Draw a portrait of the person
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Listen to a piece of music
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Find another poem by the poet
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Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist
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Produce a timeline of their life
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Identify the instruments.
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Advanced
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Create a performance as part of a pair/group
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Draw a picture in similar style
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Produce a poster to advertise their achievements
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Research the life of the composer.
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Write a short biography about the poet
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Transform the medium of the painting: use collage
instead of painting
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Write a letter asking them about their life
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Attempt to recreate the piece of music
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Deep
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Write your own poem inspired by the topic
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Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC
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Explain how the world would be without this person
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A mind map of different emotions you feel at various
points in the piece
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Compare and contrast two poems by the poet
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Describe the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on
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Give five reasons for and against why they should be
in ‘The Hall of Fame’
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Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the
music makes you feel.
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Person - Marie Curie
Painting
Vesuvius – Andy Warhol
Music
‘Earth’ – Michael Jackson
Poem
Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion by
Celia Berrell
Newton was a clever man.
An avid scientific fan.
He questioned many things he saw.
Like ones we had no answers for.
He thought them through right to their
cores.
Then gave us many handy laws.
Newton’s First Law Of Motion:
Without a force of push or pull
an object will remain quite still.
With just one push at just one time
that object moves in one straight line.
A bigger Force accelerates
an object that is heavy-weight.
While objects of a smaller mass
don’t need much Force to move them fast.
So Newton noticed they obey
that Force will equal m times a.
Newton’s Third Law Of Motion:
Now bend a stick. Before it cracks
you’ll feel its force of pushing back.
For every action there will be
an equal one – opposingly.
Without his formulas in place
we’d soon get lost in outer space.
So Isaac’s Laws help us traverse
the reaches of our universe.
