Before Tet, we celebrated International Week here at BIS. As part of this, EAL students in Year 4 wrote non-chronological reports about their home countries. We focused on key features such as: Topic sentences and supporting sentences, the passive voice, statistics, technical vocabulary and formal language. Our students were excited and proud to write about their cultures, and even prouder to see it on display in the middle of school where other students can enjoy it. Please click into the document below to see your child's work. 

This half term, Year 4 children have been developing as Global Citizens by researching and writing non-chronological reports about other countries. What fascinating facts we have learned about the world!

To continue your enquiry into the wonderful and varied countries of the world, you can check out these great online encyclopedias, especially made for children:

https://www.ducksters.com/geography/

https://www.factmonster.com/world

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/earth/

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/

Optional taks for the holidays: Make a poster or fact file about a country of your choice and post it to SeeSaw or bring it to school!

Hello, and Happy New Year! In the first half of Term 2, students are building up to the highly anticipated International Week by creating a non-chronological report about a particular country.

This week in EAL, we have learnt some new topic vocabulary to help them with both their reading and writing.

Click into the link to play the fun game. Solve the clues to enter the word and win points. 

In the last couple of weeks of Term 1, Year 4 EAL have looked at a range of Christmas poems and poetry performances. We've learnt how to use rhythm, emphasis, sound effects, enthusiasm and facial expressions/body movement to enhance our performances. We also had heaps of fun! Click on the videos below to watch the students performing. 

We also created our own Christmas acrostic poems using ISPACE sentence starters. Scroll down to see more about ISPACE and read their wonderful work.  

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Have a happy, healthy and relaxing break. See you next year!

We're on the countdown to Christmas class parties, Christmas concerts and Christmas holidays. To get students in the festive mood, Year 4 have been looking at Christmas poetry. In EAL we have been focusing on rhythm and rhyme, and how words that look completely different when they are written down can still sound the same, and vice versa.

Click into this Wordwall game that contains part of the poem 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' by Dr Seuss. Drag and drop the correct rhyming words into the gap. 

Remember to say the words out loud so you can hear how they sound.

Writing expanded noun phrases- Halloween edition

 Open a box on this Wordwall game and write an expanded noun phrase to describe the spooky character. 

With enterprise week just around the corner, Year 4 have been looking at how we can use language to make our products sound amazing and make sure that everyone in BIS wants to come to our enterprise shop!

Look at the examples of a good and bad advert below. What makes the good one good? What language is used to make you want to buy it?