Dear Year 4, I hope you’re well and your families are too. I thought it would be nice while we’re apart to share a few more chapters of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! Here’s the first post and I will add more from next week – have a lovely weekend!

Thanks Mr Poole.

It was so difficult trying to pick out just a few photos of the amazing visit we had from Mr. Mark Robertson.

Mark began his session talking to us about what it was like being an author and he shared some of the exclusive pages from his drafting books.  The story mountain gives us some crucial information on how an author plans their story – a useful tool for the classroom and home learning!  Mark also shared some of his original illustrations for the books he writes – what a talented man!

After the disussion time, Mark did a live drawing and created our very own Year 5 troll!  The remaining photos show some of the stages he took whilst creating the character.  It was breathtaking to watch and very inspiring!  The original drawings that Mark created for each class can be found displayed in the school library.

This term our topic has been the Mayans.  Mrs Nicholson arranged for 3 History students from Nottingham University to come in to our class to help teach us about who the Mayans were and how their ancient civilisation became so well known.  The photos below show the results of a fact finding lesson the students organised.  We learnt about the different Gods that the Maya worshipped; we were given a fact each about a particular God; and finally we had to find all the people in the classroom with a fact about the same God.  We finished the session by sitting in our groups and writing down all the facts we had learnt about.  It was great fun!