Year 4 Topaz Class

Mrs Woodgate	Miss Hatzfeld	Miss Cooper
Class Teacher	High Level Teaching Assistant	High Level Teaching Assistant

Topaz Class have started the year as Clever Writers learning about free verse poetry from A.F Harrold's collection of nonsense poems: Midnight Feasts. We looked in detail at the poem 'Crisps with Custard' and came up with some of our own strange food concoctions. During this Clever Writer unit, we have been developing our use of figurative language such as metaphors, onomatopoeia and similes as sentence openers. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed writing them.

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This half term, Topaz class have been thoroughly enjoying our history topic on Settlers and Invaders. Following on form our learning of the Anglo-Saxons, for the last few weeks we have been exploring the lives of the Vikings. These ruthless warriors travelled far and wide on longboats, seeking to raid and pillage. A few weeks ago, we were fortunate enough to spend the morning with a Viking Reenactor at Chertsey Museum. We were able to learn from a range of historical sources and discover more about Viking everyday life, the clothes that they wore and the weapons that they used. We were excited to find out that the Vikings invaded Chertsey and were able to look at a real Viking sword that was discovered locally in Thorpe.