Year 4

A big “Thank You” to the Wigan Education Business Partnership Team who came into Year 4 this week to play The Paper Bag Trading Game.

This team activity set the pupils the challenge of making and producing bags made from newspaper within a set time period. We were shown how to make bags similar to those made by children in India. Then we worked in teams to produce the paper bags and were paid 1 rupee for every 10 bags that we made. We then calculated how much money we would have “earned” if we had made the bags all day – and whether or not we would have made enough money to survive in India. Afterwards we were shown some artifacts from a village in Africa.

A very stimilating and thought-provoking activity. You participated brilliantly team. Well done.

Mr Sharkey

Dragon

One hot sunny day there was a little girl with blonde, long beautiful hair. She was small and she loved camping .Her eyes were as blue as the ocean. Through the gloomy, misty forest and over the tall mountain there was a smelly bog that was greener than the rottenest grass .Down, down deep in the bog there was a huge dragon. It had fish like scales with the shiniest body that was brighter than the brightest star. He could breathe the most magnificent fire that could burn the entire forest with one puff .His wings were redder than a volcano’s fire and he loved to eat people.

The next morning Tina was so board. Then she had a fantastic idea. Tina went camping. She so excited. As she was walking the wood got mistier and mistier. Tina got scared so she ran and ran until she realized it was getting steeper .Suddenly she tripped over and fell in a bog. Then something grabbed her leg and pulled her in “AHHHHHH!” she screamed “AHHHHH! Why are you screaming? Oh yes, I am a dragon” called Drongo. So then he invited her in for mud tea and worm cookies. He told Tina that he knew that Tina would come and find his precious egg.

After they looked everywhere, then Drongo had a great idea “follow me to the mountain”. Suddenly it exploded. Drongo and Tina flew away.

Then the egg landed in Tina’s hands and Drongo had his egg again and he promised to never lose it again.         

By Rachel M

In Art we have been looking at different viewpoints and have been inspired by the work of the artist David Hockney. Here is a slideshow of our Hockney inspired photographs.

Also, why not play the ‘Guess Who?’ game and post  on a comment of who you think the children in the photographs below are?

Good Luck and have fun!

Mr Sharkey

A Fantasy Story

Once there lived a dragon called Cloudy. He was nice, pretty, loud, but mostly very unpopular. Cloudy was at home watching tv very sadly.

But suddenly he heard a bang “Bang! Bang! Bang!” so Cloudy went out side. It was an ugly, snotty high voiced goblin “let me in” he said in his high voice. “What are you doing?” he sobbed “I’m Ralf. Can I live with you I’m homeless?” Cloudy’s excitement grew “Yes. Yes you can, you can” as he was hugging Ralf  “hey get off me. So tell me about yourself” well I’m very unpopular  “ha-ha! I’m popular everyone loves me.” he laughed. Cloudy was depressed “hey we could go school together.” “ok”. Finally it was the end of school and cloudy was waiting for Ralf to come out of the toilet. He said to himself “hurry up Ralf. Come its nearly the end of school.”

But he was taking too long. At last he was out. He was walking to the door “oh no were locked in!” cried cloudy. Then Ralf found a hammer but still they couldn’t get out. Suddenly they fell down a hole. It was darker than the starry night “Ahhh!” Ralf screamed “hey!” shouted cloudy.  They found a key then a ring. But then the ring glowed and it was shinier than the stars. The ring wouldn’t come off Ralf’s finger but then “Pwoosh!”  they were gone. They were in the middle off nowhere. “I’m scared” said Ralf “the ring won’t come off”.

They were very scared but suddenly the key glowed and they were back in school but the ring and key had gone.

So Ralf and Cloudy were happy and they got jobs and they lived happily ever after.

by Shanice

Long ago there lived a beautiful dragon called Dino. His skin colour was green and blue. He lived in a green forest under lots of mud. It was ice cold. On top of the mud there was an old cottage it was one million years old. In the cottage lived a little girl called Jizabelle, she was 9 years old and had brown long hair.

One day Jizabelle went for a walk through the forest. When she was walking she was looking at the sky. The sky looked very sunny. There was a very big rock that Jizabelle tripped over and hurt her knee.

Jizabelle could not get up because of her sore knee. She tried and tried to get up but she just couldn’t. The sky was getting dark and Jizabelle was getting scared. Just then Jizabelle saw something flying up in the air. It was Dino coming to fly Jizabelle to the scraggy little cottage. Jizabelle was surprised, she had never seen a dragon before. Dino took Jizabelle back to her little cottage. Jizabelle realized Dino lived under mud were it was ice cold. So Jizabelle wrote an invitation to come to her cottage. She left the invitation on top of the sloppy mud.

Later that day Dino saw the letter and knocked on the old cottage door. Jizabelle was making dinner for her and Dino. Dino leaped in to the kitchen and Jizabelle and Dino ate the tea together. Dino realized that Jizabelle was such a nice beautiful girl. Jizabelle said to Dino “would you like to live with me” Dino said “yes”.

By Jizelle