Good Morning Year 4,
How are you? I really hope you're safe, well and happy.
The activities today continue to have a World War II theme. During WWII, the government created propaganda posters to deliver important messages and boost moral and patriotism. Propaganda is a way of influencing people's thoughts and behaviours and it can be used for good reasons, such as our government's posters with the earlier message, 'Stay Safe, Protect the NHS, Save Lives'. Patriotism means love for your country.
During WWII the government issued lots of posters to encourage people to do all sorts of important jobs such as save flour and grow vegetables due to the food shortages at the time. They also tried to keep people feeling positive and encourage them to do their bit for the war effort. Does any of this sound familiar?
Here are some of the famous wartime posters. Your first challenge is to describe them - what can you see in them? Next, make inferences from them - can you tell what their message is? Your super challenge is to think about how they get their message across.
Why not create your own posters to help us all feel positive? Have fun being creative! Art can be relaxing and calming and I really hope you'll enjoy this task and that it will take the pressure off you a bit. You'll also be using your English skills by creating powerful slogans such as the one we're all using at the moment: 'We're in this together'. Challenge yourself to include positive and powerful messages by using alteration, humour, puns and wow words (like those we studied in class)!
I can't wait to see your creations so please do email them in and I look forward very much to hearing from you!
Thank you very much indeed to Max for sending in this letter following your challenge on the website yesterday. Max, we miss you too - and we miss everyone very much indeed.
Take care, keep in touch and stay safe.
Love Mrs Macdonald
HOME LEARNING
If you have any questions or need any support with learning at home please contact our new class specific email at:
class4homelearning@richardson.derbyshire.sch.uk
We are now encouraging all parents to use the package the BBC is providing through the Bitesize website. Links to other effective resources will be posted to this newsletter, such as the Oak National Academy. Please do not feel you have to do everything, we want to equip not overload. We encourage you to access this through the daily post on your child's class page as we will still use these to post important information, resources, share messages from teachers and share any work you send in to us.
Bitesize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
This website covers a daily input of Maths, English and a wider topic. Each of these contains teaching, activities, games, work and more with familiar faces for children. These will take the place of our daily packs.
For those struggling with internet or computer access the BBC is also providing daily lessons through the red button on your TV remote (also available on iplayer), please be aware the topics covered in these do not match up with the Bitesize daily planning. The schedule for these televised lessons is included below. Each of these programmes are 20 minutes in length and are available at 9:00am each day.
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/ - This is a Government backed online learning platform. It provides 3 lessons a day from Reception to Y6 and beyond. Each lesson is an hour and ranges from English and Maths through to History, Geography, a Modern Foreign Language e.g. Spanish, Science and Art etc.
Subjects like History and Geography follow the National Curriculum - the topic choices may be different from those your year group were covering in school, but may be of interest.
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