Year 4 Summer 1 Learning Challenge

Learning Challenge

Each half term we will be setting our pupils a challenge related to their learning, this is in line with the rest of the school. We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how their children's learning can be extended at home.

The learning challenge allow children to look at a person, painting, piece of music and/or a poem. Please talk to your child about the challenge and help them to engage in their learning. The children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class however the table below details some ideas for the learning challenge.

The learning challenge replaces traditional ‘homework’ and runs alongside daily reading with your child. Is it expected that you read with your child every day and do times tables.

This semester there are more options for the learning challenge, with two options in each of the categories.

	Poem	Painting	Person	Music
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist	Draw a portrait of the person	Listen to a piece of music
	Find another poem by the poet	Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist	Produce a timeline of their life	Identify the instruments.
Advanced	Create a performance as part of a pair/group	Draw a picture in similar style	Produce a poster to advertise their achievements	Research the life of the composer.
	Write a short biography about the poet	Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of painting	Write a letter asking them about their life	Attempt to recreate the piece of music
Deep	Write your own poem inspired by the topic	Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC	Explain how the world would be without this person	A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points in the piece
	Compare and contrast two poems by the poet	Describe the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on	Give five reasons for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of Fame’	Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes you feel.

OPTION ONE

PERSON: Frank Lampard

PAINTING: The Haywain by John Constable

MUSIC: ‘Sing’ by Gary Barlow Some words they can’t be spoken only sung, So hear a thousand voices shouting love. There’s a place, there’s a time in this life When you sing what you are feeling, Find your feet, stand your ground, Don’t you see right now the world is listening to what we say? Sing it louder, sing it clearer, knowing everyone will hear you, Make some noise, find your voice tonight. Sing it stronger, sing together, make this moment last forever, Old and young shouting love tonight. To sing we’ve had a lifetime to wait (wait, lifetime to wait) And see a thousand faces celebrate (celebrate, faces celebrate) You brought hope, you brought life, Conquered fear, no it wasn’t always easy, Stood your ground, kept your faith, Don’t you see right now the world is listening to what we say? Sing it louder, sing it clearer, knowing everyone will hear you, Make some noise, find your voice tonight. Sing it stronger, sing together, make this moment last forever, Old and young shouting love tonight. Some words they can’t be spoken only sung, To hear a thousand voices shouting love and light and hope. Just sing; just sing; just sing; just sing. Sing it louder, sing it clearer, knowing everyone will hear you, Sing it stronger, sing together, make this moment last forever, (sing) Hear a thousand voices shouting love.

POEM: ‘Missing’ by Mike Johnson MISSING Missing: our one and only planet, known to her friends as ‘Earth’. Yes, an old photograph when she was clothed in gorgeous greens, wilderness white, brilliant blues. Somehow, got into bad company: blistered brown, gaunt grey, faded. Jaded, left one morning; no forwarding address. We just didn’t think. . . We just didn’t know what to do. If you have any information that can help us trace our beautiful planet, please get in touch. Please get in touch. beep beep                             beep beep

OPTION TWO

Person Thomas Barnardo (1845-1905)

Painting Gustave Doré: Flower Sellers of London (1869)

Piece of Music ‘Lambeth Walk’ from the Musical Me and My Girl (1937) Any time you're Lambeth way, Any evening, any day, You'll find us all Doing the Lambeth Walk. Every little Lambeth gal, With her little Lambeth pal, You'll find them all Doing the Lambeth Walk. Everything's free and easy, Do as you darn well pleasy, Why don't you make your way there Go there, stay there. Once you get down Lambeth way Every evening, every day, You'll find yourself Doing the Lambeth Walk.oi!

Poem London my Beautiful by F.S Flint (1920) LONDON, my beautiful,   it is not the sunset   nor the pale green sky   shimmering through the curtain   of the silver birch,          5 nor the quietness;   it is not the hopping   of birds   upon the lawn,   nor the darkness   10 stealing over all things   that moves me.      But as the moon creeps slowly   over the tree-tops   among the stars,   15 I think of her   and the glow her passing   sheds on men.      London, my beautiful,   I will climb   20 into the branches   to the moonlit tree-tops,   that my blood may be cooled   by the wind.