IPC Y04

TERM 1.2: 08/03/2021 - 12/03/2021

Science and Maths Week

• Students have been working on 'Science Fair Project Boards.' They have participated in various challenges and quizzes organised in the school. They have also created very interesting invention posters during this week.

TERM 1, WEEK 7 (19/10/2020 - 23/10/2020)

Year 4 learning assembly practise

TERM 1, WEEK 6 (14/10/2020 - 16/10/2020)

• Year 4 learning assembly practise

TERM 1, WEEK 5 (05/10/2020 - 09/10/2020)

We have started our new IPC unit - Inventions that changed the world

During this unit we will be focusing on History, Technology, Science, Art, Society and

International.

In History, we’ll be finding out:

• About significant inventions of the last 100 years

• About inventions in the way we communicate

• About the Islamic ‘Golden Age of Invention’

• About the history of flight and associated inventions

In Technology, we’ll be finding out:

• How to make a pinhole camera

• How levers, gears and cams work

• How to make a moving toy

• How to invent and build something to solve a problem

In Science, we’ll be finding out:

• About the air around us and the science of flight

• How to make a paper glider

• About man-made materials and their properties

• How to carry out a scientific test

In Art, we’ll be finding out:

• How technology has been depicted in art

• About techniques in traditional and modern art

• How to create digital art

• How to make a print

In Society, we’ll be finding out:

• How technology and inventions affect people’s lives

• How inventions have made life easier or harder

• About inventions in the home and host countries

• Why some countries have fewer or more technologies than others

In International, we’ll be finding out:

• How the invention of the Internet has changed the way we communicate

• How the world’s scientists are sharing knowledge about inventions and the latest technology

Entry Point: We had an activity where children identified the inventions done in the past 100 years, researched and wrote descriptive labels about them.

TERM 1, WEEK 4 (28/9/2020 - 02/10/2020)

This week, children have learned to:

• understand the importance of international mindedness (U)

• understand the importance of positive thinking (U)

• identify ways of taking care of our brains (K)

• share the learning with another class (U) - Exit point

TERM 1, WEEK 3 (21/09/2020 - 25/09/2020)

This week, children have learned to:

• Understand that skills need to be practised (U)

• Know how to assess one’s skills using designed rubrics (K)

• Know what are inside of our brain (K)

TERM 1, WEEK 2 (14/9/2020 - 18/9/2020)

This week, children have learned to:

• Identify and differentiate the three areas of learning (S)

• Know about some of the recent evidence and research into the brain and learning (K)

• Know that we can affect the quality of our own learning (K)

TERM 1, WEEK 1 (7/9/2020 - 11/9/2020)

We have started our new IPC unit - Brainwave

In this unit, we’ll be finding out:

• How different people learn

• About the importance of practice when learning a skill

• How the brain works

• How to make connections between our learning

• How we can share our learning with others

• Why it is important to learn from other children and cultures around the world

• How positive thinking can help us to succeed

• How to look after our brain

• How to design a school for learning

This week, children learned to:

• Discover evidence of good learning in school (K)

• Share evidence of good learning in school (S)

• Recall knowledge on learning and the brain (K)