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I know lots of you have been wondering what we would do about finishing Artburst. Now I can reveal that we are going to take it online and make it as a film.
This is your half term homework, we are expecting ALL of you to do this. We need everyone to take part otherwise we won't be able to complete the play! Amy has been working really hard to work out how we can do it. Watch her top tips below and then read her message.
Hello Year 4!
We really want to finish your Fantastic Mr Fox play so I need your videos. You will need a family member to help you with this task. So remember to...:
If you would like to make yourself a costume that would be amazing! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, Amy
Here is a message from Amy to your parents. It was also emailed out by Joan this morning.
Dear parents/carers,
We would like to finish off the Fantastic Mr Fox play we started with year 4! We will be editing footage of the children acting out their play and need your help. Firstly please could you fill in this form so that we know you agree to our safeguarding procedures. Please send finished films to my email address: amy@artburst.co.uk. If your finished films are too large to be sent by email, then please send them via We Transfer or Google Drive or any other online applications suitable for large files. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best wishes, Amy
Congratulations on making it to the end of another half term! And especially well done for completing a whole half term of home learning. We keep saying it but you really do impress us with your resilience and hard work. It has been lovely to hear some of your suggestions for the Kindness Cup. There is still time for you to send in your nominations today. Here is today's wellbing activity.  ArtburstCheck back here later for an update on Artburst. We have been having some exciting discussions about how we can try and finish our performance even though we aren't at school. English - WritingHow was the editing? It is a difficult skill to develop but one you have all worked hard to develop over your time in Year 4. Today’s task is to publish your writing. We want you to send in your completed writing either on Purple Mash or via email. As it is half term next week, you can have this as a half term project but please make sure it is sent in to us by the 31st May at the latest. If you would like to, you can add illustrations (pictures) to your story. English - ReadingToday we reach the end of the first chapter of Ivan the Terrible. Let's see what happens. He beamed and gave another of his smart bows. There was a pause. Then Mrs Blaizely glanced at me enquiringly. “Boris?” I took a deep breath. “I am delighted to be here,” I pretended to translate for Ivan. “I think this school looks very nice. And everyone looks very kind and friendly. I really hope I’ll settle in soon and make a whole load of new friends.” “That’s lovely,” said Mrs Blaizely. She turned to Ivan. “And I’m sure everyone in this hall wants to join me in wishing you well and hoping you feel at home as soon as possible.” Ivan turned to me. “What did she say?” I wasn’t going to risk him coming out with another barrage of insults. So I looked Ivan in the eye and told him, “She said, “Watch your fat tongue, New Boy, or I’ll break off your arm and bash you with the soggy end.”” I really hoped he’d look at Mrs Blaizely with a new respect. But he just grinned and walked down the steps from the stage. Feeling a bit of a wally, I followed him. End of Assembly. And thank heaven for that. Questions
MathsToday, we're going to continue applying our maths knowledge to a wider range of problems. You might need to use different operations to help with these questions. Try to give them all a go, you will find that they get more challenging as they go on. Question 1  Question 2  Question 3  Question 4  Question 5  P4C The artist Banksy recently created this new piece of art. What do you think of it? What message do you think it is trying to tell people? Don't forget...
Stay safe, carry on being kind to yourself and other people and find time to relax. Ruth and Emily As always, there has been some great learning going on this week. Have a look below to see what has been sent in and uploaded onto Purple Mash. Good LearningThere has been some brilliant maths learning this week. It's great to see lots of you drawing out the place value grids to help you solve the problems. Thanks to Khadijah, Khalil, Sabine, Teo, Yousif and Zakiya for sharing your work with us. It's been great reading some of your descriptions of the machine in Wing It. Here are Sabine, Yousif, Khalil and Teo's descriptions. It's also been really good to read Zakyia's plan and the first drafts of Sabine and Yousif's stories. We're really looking forward to reading them once you have finished editing and improving them. How have you enjoyed our reading this week? Khalil, Alfred and Teo have shared their answers to some of this week's questions. This week's history task has prompted lots of interesting and well thought through questions from lots of you. Here are Alfred, Khalil, Sabine and Yousif's questions. In answer to lots of your questions, the object was a Morse Code machine! Sabine has shared some photos of this week's science investigation. Who else had a go at seeing if they could make the sound from a phone louder? As you know, this week has been Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme has been kindness. Alfred sent in this list of things he could do to be kind to others.  Special MentionsKhadijah for learning how to upload photos onto Purple Mash so we can see more of her work. Well done Khadijah!
Sabine for using Purple Mash to ask questions and to be developing a good growth mindset for correcting, improving and editing her work. Khalil for enthusiastically doing all his work and sending Ruth lots of his Spanish learning too. Teo and Alfred for continuing to impress us with all the work their doing and its presentation too! As always, all of you deserve a massive pat on the back for all your hard work and perseverance this week. We keep saying it but you are coping amazingly in a very difficult and strange situation. Hopefully you'll all be able to have time to relax and rest over the half term break. Well done Year 4, keep up the good work.
Good morning.
Don't forget, the book swap is this morning from 10am - midday! Did any of you take part in the Artburst workshops yesterday? Keep your eyes peeled as there will hopefully be some more Artburst news coming your way very soon. Here is your Thinking Thursday task. 
English - Writing
How did you get on with your writing yesterday?
Today you are going to edit your writing. We can always find things to improve in a piece of writing, we just have to make sure we are reading it with a growth mindset and understand that we can always work to make things even better. Here is a list of things to check through in your writing.
English - Reading
What did you think about the ending of the part of the chapter we read yesterday? What do you think Boris is going to do?
I was still staring when Mrs Blaizely beckoned. She wanted me up the steps and standing next to Ivan. I didn’t have a choice.
“Now,” she said. “Boris is going to tell us, in English, exactly what Ivan just said to us in Russian.” She turned to me. “Well, go on.” I tell you frankly, this was my big mistake. If I’d just done it, just gone ahead and told her straight off: “He said, “Greetings to all you lowly shivering worms”,” I could have saved myself a heap of trouble. But I couldn’t do it. Look at it this way. There he was, on his first day in a new school. For all I knew, it could have been his very first week in a new country, his first day in his new house, almost his first words in his brand-new life (apart from arguing with his mother about whether or not to come through the school gates in the first place). And he’d been called up to stand on stage with everyone staring. I thought he must have panicked, and said something silly as a sort of joke, not realising that in our civilized school where everyone’s supposed to have good manners and a positive attitude, it wasn’t going to work, and everyone was going to end up staring at him even more. Lowly shivering worms? It’s pretty rude. I couldn’t let him get himself into everyone’s bad books so quickly. So I just told them: “Ivan said, “Good morning, everyone”.” I thought we’d get away then. I thought Mrs Blaizely would nod at us, and we’d troop off the stage. I’d tick him off (in Russian) and we’d start the day again. But no such luck, because Ivan hadn’t finished. He stepped forward again. “No doubt you’ll all be half-witted enough to welcome me amongst you,” he said (in Russian). “Your tiny, dim-bulb brains are simply not capable of seeing that I have secret powers which I intend to use to turn the whole pack of you into my slaves.”
Questions
Maths
Last week we looked at dividing by 10, now we’re looking at dividing by 10 and 100.
We’ve done this lots at school but it never harms to practise again. Remember, when we divide by 10 each digit get 10 times small and moves one place to the right. When we divide by 100 each digit gets 100 times smaller and so they move two places to the right. Here's the video we watched last week to remind you again.
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
CHALLENGE Question 5
CHILLI CHALLENGE Question 6
Computing
It's been great to see the progress some of you are making with your computing work on Purple Mash.
Have a look to see what today's tasks are. There are two this week as next week is half term. Don't forget...
Stay safe, take care and be kind. Ruth and Emily
Thank you to all of you who have given nominations for the Kindness Cup. Keep sending them in, it's great to hear what you think.
Here is your Wellbeing Wednesday task. 
Reach to the Sky
Amy and everyone at Artbust are running a series of digital workshops today.
Their website has a page showing you all the different things they're doing. https://www.artburst.co.uk/reach-to-the-sky/ If you have time, why not pick a workshop and do it with everyone else at home? English - Writing
Today’s task is to rewrite the film from Sherman’s point of view.
It’s important to remember he doesn’t know anything about the aliens. Look back at the feelings you wrote down yesterday. How is he feeling at the beginning? Remember, people are being unkind to him and he isn’t having much luck with his invention. How does he feel in the middle of the film? Remember, he woke up one morning and suddenly felt inspired to make something new and different. Finally, how does he feel at the end? You should use some of the descriptive writing about the workshop and the machine to add more detail to your writing and add greater interest for the reader. Lots of this writing is based around Sherman’s feelings so it’s important to use show not tell in your writing.
Here’s a quick reminder of what show not tell is:
Instead of telling your readers everything about a character, try to show them instead. For example: Telling - The woman walked into the room looking intimidating and angry. Showing - The woman stormed into the room, her black coat flying behind her. Her scowl was fierce as she scanned the room. English - Reading
What do you think about Chapter 1 of Ivan the Terrible so far?
Here's the next part of the chapter.
Mrs Blaizely’s got a thing about running what she calls ‘a civilized school’. She says she wants everyone at St Edmund’s to have good manners and a positive attitude. So we began Assembly by singing that wimpy little song about remembering to be grateful for everything round us. (Lulu once wrote a joke version of it about not being grateful for empty beer cans, or sick on the pavements, or homework or dog poo. Mrs Shah said it was ‘a brilliant spoof’ and pinned it on the display board. She kept it up right through till Parents’ Evening. Then she lost her nerve and suddenly it vanished.)
After we’d finished singing ‘In Our Wonderful World’, some of the children in the nursery put on a little show about being kind to animals and taking care of your pets. It wasn’t up to much, but we all clapped to show our good manners and positive attitude. Then Mrs Blaizely begged us all to make less noise in the corridors and not drop so much litter. (We hear that so often it’s practically our morning prayer.) And then we came to our bit. Mrs Blaizely changed to her really bright and enthusiastic voice. “I have someone to introduce to you,” she said to everyone. “His name is Boris and he comes from a huge country called Russia. Russia’s so big that some snowy parts in the north are way up in the Arctic Circle while some parts in the south are so dry that they’re desert.” She beckoned to Ivan. “Don’t be shy. Come up here on stage so everyone can see you and know that they’ve got to be especially thoughtful and considerate until you’ve settled in.” I gave Ivan a little push and he walked up the steps. I thought he’d just blush and stay at the side of the stage, shuffling his feet in an embarrassed fashion like everyone else who’s ever been new to the school. But no. He swept forward right to the middle, almost next to Mrs Blaizely, turned to face us all and did a sort of smart military bow from the waist. Then he straightened up, threw his arms out wide, and said in the loudest, clearest Russian: “Greetings to all you lowly shivering worms.”
Questions
Maths
Last week, we looked at how to represent tenths in a place value grid. When we are representing hundredths, we follow exactly the same rules but we’re working with an additional column.
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
CHALLENGE Question 5
Spanish
Have a look at this week's Spanish blog to find today's task.
https://www.virginia.towerhamlets.sch.uk/spanish-blog Water City Music Tower Voices
This term we were supposed to be taking part in a music festival that would have ended with us doing a concert at the Tower of London. Unfortunately, this has had to be cancelled. However the organisers have decided to create a virtual performance instead.
This video gives an explanation about the project.
The website below has more information including the song to sing, the words, how to film it and how and where to upload the video.
https://adamsaundersmusic.com/watercitymusictowervoices As it says at the bottom of the web page, the videos should be uploaded to the project's website, we don't want them to be sent to us at school. This is not a compulsory project but it would be great to see as many of you taking part as possible. As this is a project with an external provider and involves video recordings and online activity, the organisers have created specific safeguarding guidance for online activities. Please read them with an adult before you start the project. 
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Stay safe, be kind and work hard. Ruth and Emily Dear Virginia pupils,
We need your help!! In conjunction with Liveable Streets Bethnal Green, we would like you to make a short video to say what you are looking forward to when changes are made in the area. This could be centred around one of the following themes:
**Your videos will be uploaded to the Liveable Streets website** https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/community_and_living/Liveable_Streets.aspx Your videos must be no longer than 30 seconds. Please send all videos to: admin@virginia.towerhamlets.sch.uk It's been great to see so much work from some of you. During recent phonecalls some of you have been asking how to upload photos of work straight to Purple Mash. Below is a guide for different ways in which that can be done. Sharing 2Dos and other tasks straight to the blog When you are doing this you should click on the third option "Blog about your work". From there you will be able to share it on either the Year 4 blog or the blog specific to the task you are doing. Uploading a photo to a blog post To upload a photo you have taken, you should click on the icon of a picture with a plus sign in the bottom right hand corner. You will be offered the opportunity to pick a photo from your computer/device, click on the file and press upload. Uploading documents or photos to "My Work" To get to "My Work", you click the yellow "Work" icon in the top left corner, that should take you to "My Work". Once in "My Work", you should be able to upload files. These can be Word documents, photos etc. You can create new folders within "My Work" to organise the work you upload. A request from Ruth and Emily: If you upload some work or photos into your "My Work" folder, please let us know through a message on the blog as we can then come and have a look at it. Photos that are uploaded onto here are of a better quality than the ones directly uploaded to the blog. Saving any additional tasks you do If you choose to do any additional tasks on Purple Mash, this should help you save them so you can find them again easily.
Good morning!
How did you find yesterday's tasks? Did you manage to make something that amplified the sound from a phone? If you did, send in your photos. We'd love to see them. How did you get on with yesterday's wellbeing task? Today's task is also linked to kindness. Don't forget to head to the class PM blog and suggest people who you think deserve a Kindness Cup. We're really looking forward to hearing your reasons and seeing what you say. 
English - Writing
Have a think about the different parts of the film.
Can you break it down into a beginning, middle and end? Create a table like the one below to show what happens in the different parts of the film and to show how Sherman feels during these different parts of the story. To give you an idea of what to do, the table has been started for you but you should add in more parts to "What happens?" and "How does Sherman feel?". How does he feel at the beginning, how does it feel in the middle and how have his feelings changed by the end of the film? Try to collect as many different feelings as possible in each part of the table.
English - Reading
How did you find Ivan the Terrible yesterday? We're going to read the next part of Chapter 1 today.
“Just for a day or two...” said Mrs Blaizely in her coaxing tone.
I gave her one of my suspicious looks. “Just for a day or two — what, exactly?” I asked as politely as I could. “Chum him around,” said Mrs Blaizely. “Explain to him all the things the teachers are saying. And then explain to the teachers what he says back.” “Be his interpreter, you mean?” She beamed at me. “Yes. And, if he’s writing, you can translate for him. Just while we get him started. It will give him an idea of the sort of work you’re doing in your classes. He’ll soon get the hang of it.” “But what about my own work?” She didn’t laugh. She’s too polite. But she did raise an eyebrow because she knows that getting my own work done without being distracted hasn’t always been top of my list of real worries. And, as I say, I do remember exactly how awful it is to have to start off in a new class with twenty-five new people whose names you don’t even know, especially if you can’t speak a word of the language — not even “Hi”. “All right,” I said. “I’ll do it." “Good lad,” she praised me. Then, just as she was sending me back to my classroom, she thought of something else. “Oh, by the way, Boris, please make sure the two of you are sitting in the front row during Assembly because I’ll want to bring Ivan up on the stage to introduce him to everyone.” “Righty-ho,” I said.
Questions
Maths
Today we’re going to think about hundredths as decimals.
It’s always helpful to use a place value grid for this. Remember, you can draw one at any point if you think it will help you understand the question better. This video should help you remember the difference between tenths and hundredths.
Question 1. Can you draw a place value grid to represent these decimal numbers?
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
CHALLENGE Question 5
History
Part of being a historian is asking questions even if you're not sure of the answer.
By asking these questions we are trying to further our understanding. Below is a picture of an object. Your task today is to think of different questions you could ask about it. Share your questions with everyone else on Purple Mash, you might be able to answer each others questions. 
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Take cake, share kindness with others and carry on working hard. Ruth and Emily How were your weekends? What did you get up to? Did you try any of the new PE activities and challenges? Why not head over to the Purple Mash blog and let us know what you did? Mental Health Awareness WeekThis week is Mental Health Awareness Week. It is really important that we look after our mental health, especially during these difficult times. This year's theme is kindness. Kindness is defined by doing something towards yourself and others, motivated by genuine desire to make a positive difference. Being kind can reduce stress, improve our emotional wellbeing and even benefit our physical health. It has been proven that the more we do to help others, the more we help ourselves in the future. Throughout the week we are going to be use Kindness Cups to provide an opportunity to recognise the children, teachers, parents, carers and other individuals who have made a positive difference through their kindness at this challenging time. We will have a blog post running on our class Purple Mash blog where you can nominate people who you think deserve a Kindness Cup. We're really looking forward to hearing your reasons and seeing what you say. In addition to this, all our wellbeing activities this week are all linked to kindness, have a look at today's below.  English - WritingWatch the film again from last week. What do you think of Sherman’s flying machine? Write a description of the machine. Just like last week’s description of the workshop, imagine you are describing it to someone who can’t see it themselves. You really need to think about all its different parts and explain how they work and what they look like. Share you descriptions with everyone else on the Wing It blog on Purple Mash. English - ReadingThis week, we are going to start a new story. Over the course of the week, we're going to read the first chapter of Ivan the Terrible. It is a book by Anne Fine. Each day we will read some of the chapter and answer questions related to the text. The minute she spotted me, Mrs Blaizely’s eyes lit up as if she were planning to eat me. “Ah, Boris!” I screeched to a halt in the corridor. “Yes, Mrs Blaizely?” “You speak Russian, don’t you?” “Yes,” I agreed. (No getting round that one with a mother called Galina Stepanova Rezotsky.) “Right, then,” she told me. “I think you’re very probably the man for this job. Please come with me.” I followed her into her office. It says Mrs Elise Blaizely on the door, and her name’s put in every spelling test we have in our first year in school, till everyone gets it right. There, waiting, was a boy my age. I’d seen him earlier at the school gates. His mother had been pointing at the sign that says Welcome to St Edmund’s and he’d been trying to drag her away. You couldn’t blame him. It’s horrible starting at a new school halfway through term when everyone else knows everyone already. I’d had to do it myself, so when I saw him tugging at his mother’s sleeve, I’d felt quite sorry for him. Now he stood next to Mrs Blaizely, clutching what looked like a very stylish red leather-bound lunch box. She pushed him forward gently. “Boris,” she said. “Meet Ivan. Ivan, meet Boris.” “Hi,” I said. “Dobya dan,” said Ivan. “You see the problem?” Mrs Blaizely said. “He speaks no English.” I nodded (though I was thinking there probably wasn’t a boy our age on the planet who hadn’t seen enough adverts and films to make a stab at saying “Hi”). Questions
MathsLast week, we looked at tenths and how these can be written as a fraction as well as a decimal. We used a place value grid to help us understand the value of each digit. This week, we are going to be learning more about hundredths and how we can write them as a fraction and a decimal. We looked at them a little bit when we were partitioning last week, so hopefully they aren’t too scary and new. Watch this video (At the beginning the blue worm says he’s a unit worm, we don’t use the word unit anymore we say ones. So the blue worm is a ones worm): Remember: A hundredth is ten times smaller than a tenth. Ten hundredths make one tenth. Question 1  Question 2 (This question involves partitioning, we looked at this last week so if you're confused, why not look at your work from then to help you?)  Question 3  Question 4  CHALLENGE Question 5 (Can you explain your reasoning?)  ScienceThis week we have another experiment for our science task. Below are a set of instructions from the Science Museum explaining how you can investigate making speakers. It would be great to see some photos of your investigations and to hear how you get on. Don't forget...
Carry on working hard, stay safe and keep in touch. It would be great if by the end of the week we could receive an email or Purple Mash message from every child in the class! Ruth and Emily
Well done on reaching the end of another week. We continue to be impressed and amazed at how well you are doing under the current circumstances and still enjoy seeing all the work you have been getting up to. Keep it up! Don't forget to look at yesterday's good learning blog to see some of the brilliant work we have received this week. Here's today's Feelings Friday activity. 
English - Writing
Watch the film again. At the 2 minute mark the aliens are clearly having a conversation. But what are they saying?
Your task today is to create the dialogue between the three aliens. Don’t forget the rules of punctuation speech. Have a look at the videos and information on this page to remind you of the rules of inverted commas. This first video is a reminder of how to use inverted commas.
This second video gives a bit more information on how to use inverted commas in dialogue. (For the first few seconds it seems like it's the same video but then it changes.)
English - Reading
Read Chapter 5 of the story and answer the questions. Over the weekend make sure you read the final chapter to find out how the story ends.
Complete these two activities related to the book. Complete the sentence below with either ‘a’ or ‘an’.
Some of the words in the sentence below have missing letters. Fill in the gaps with either ei or ey.
Maths
You've been working really hard learning about tenths as fractions and decimals this week. Today, we're going to talk a small break and try to apply our maths knowledge to a wider range of problems. You might need to use different operations to help with these questions. Try to give them all a go, you will find that they get more challenging as they go on.
Question 1 
Question 2 (Remember, to find the difference you need to use subtraction.)
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Question 6
P4C
Watch this video .
Discuss with someone at home.
Would you prefer to be able to travel to the past or the future? Create a list of advantages and disadvantages for each one. You can share these on the Purple Mash blog. It would be great to hear your thoughts. Don't forget...
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