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knowing me knowing you

The whole of year four have been focusing on the topic "Knowing me knowing you". We've been thinking about relationships and how to sort them out. Mrs Moffat's class have been listening to a song and then writing words that link to it. And they have also been making album covers on the topic in I.C.T.

Yr 4's Beach Trip

As part of a literacy project the Year 4's went to spend the day at Appley Beach to experience what a beach is all about.  They travelled to Appley by public transport and had the best day ever.

Have a look at the photos and watch this blog for more info on what this exciting literacy project is all about......

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Diary of Ann Frank

Yr 4 have been looking at The Diary of Ann Frank as part of their literacy work on Issues and Dilemmas.  It is a challenging text often studied by children in Year 6 and 7 so the work they have done has been quite amazing.

After looking at the text and watching the film the two sets began working in groups to write their own diary extracts as if they were Ann.  In groups: half the class worked with Mrs Ward and half the class worked with Mrs Gibbins.  The children had two choices for their diary extracts:

1.  A diary extract showing an issue of dilemma Ann was dealing with.

2.  a diary extract from within the concentration camp.

Here are their own diary extracts as they write in the role of Ann Frank:

Friday 18^th February

Dear Diary,

I’ve arrived at concentration camp.  It is a horrible place: they don’t feed us or care about us and they push us around.  The floors are cold and damp and infested with rats.  We have to face the Nazis bossing us about. 

Margot disappeared today.  She was sleeping next to me, the doors creaked and when I opened my eyes Margot was gone.  I am so devastated! I’ve no one to talk to, how am I going to survive?

Sunday 20^th February

Dear Diary,

I’m gutted my mother has gone, everyday it is just die, die, die! one day the dreaded end of my life will come!

I’ve been crying for quite a few days now.  You can see by the tear drops on this page.  I don’t want to die – I wish I had a choice.  I miss my Father and don’t dream anymore of dancing, singing and reading.

I’m really hungry and sometimes I look back a few pages in my diary, the last four weeks had been without much food.  I’ve been trapped in a house for two years and now the concentration camp.  Everytime I hear footsteps I am SCARED.

January 1^st 1944

Dear Diary,

I opened my eyes and I first saw my darling Peter, he makes me very special and loved.

Today I am going to tell him my feelings towards him, about how I feel about him and how I can’t live without him.

I am not sure if I should tell him because he might feel the opposite.  Is it worth me telling Peter my feelings to him because we will just end up separated.

I am so confused, what should I do? I feel as if my world is upside down.

By Chloe, Karen, Lauren and Hannah

3^rd January 1945

Dear Diary,

I am lonely and scared.  There is no food at the concentration camp.  My tummy feels empty.  I have just been taken away from my family.  Those Nazis, they just want to get rid of the Jews.  I am exhausted.  I don’t have a bed to sleep on and what is worse is there is disease. 

I am so dirty and fell so sad.  I sleep in a dark cell like room and there are rats in my room.  Some of the rooms are cells and the Nazis have put poisonous gas in there.  The gas makes me weak.

It all feels like a bad dream but it isn’t it is really happening.  Sometimes it feels like I am dead.

By Marley, Dara, Connor and Reece

3^rd October 1944

Dear Diary,

As soon as I came into the concentration camp I could feel the suspense and tension and they tortured us with lack of food.  It is so hot you get dehydrated quickly.  The air is thicker than a double reinforced brick wall.  There are rats everywhere spreading disease, I was the first one to catch it.  It feels as if there is a time limit on how long I am going to live.  I feel I may die at any second.

The bread they give us is so stale it makes me feel I might cough my own guts up.  I need to stop now and hide my diary in case the guards come and burn it.

By Jack, Isaac, Grant and Noah

4^th August 1944

Dear Diary,

My worst fear has come true I have been sent to concentration camp.  The date is August 4^th 1944.

I am so frightened and the conditions here are worse than I imagine.  The stench takes my breath away.  I miss my mummy and daddy so much and Peter and wonder where they are in this horrible place.  I hope I do not die and will do anything to stay alive but I am weak and I have no food.  I am being forced to work hard and clean the Nazi huts.

By Emily, Katie,

Aden

and Jamie

4^th April 1943

Dear Diary,

I find it very scary in hiding because there is nothing much to do except read!  There isn’t much food as Mr Van Dam keeps taking our money.  I also have nightmares about the war and about my best friend dying in the war!  I have to wear the same clothes and I don’t get to wash them very often.

I hear an ambulance everyday passing by!  I have to wait to flush the toilet at 8.00 at night.  I keep getting shouted at and told off and Margot never seems to do anything wrong. 

I am really scared that I might not survive!  Everyone keeps saying that Margot is more sensible than me!  I really don’t want to keep getting told off.

By Emma, Erika, Cayliam and William

5^th August 1944

Dear Diary,

This is our first day at the concentration camp.  We got thrown in a dark room but the Germans took my mum and dad and Dussel.  I think Peter is dead.

They do not give us much bread and not much clothes.  We have to do the work or die.  The floor was rat infested and the walls were dull and grey with cobwebs everywhere in the corners.

Soon I will………..

By James, Luke, Joseph and Brendan

3^rd June 1943

Dear Diary,

I had a nightmare last night and my friend was in it.  My mate was in it and she got shot by a Nazi.

I woke up screaming but it was all a dream.

By Alex, Charlie, Aaron and Moses

13^th November 1942

Dear Diary,

Should I have fallen in love with Peter or not?  Each day I get sadder and sadder.  I don’t want to split up if I do fall in love with him.

We have so little food and drink now and we often feel dehydrated.  Mr Van Dam is smoking away all the money.  I breath cigarettes in and feel sick, it makes my lungs bad. 

I hate to share a room with Mr Dussel and he keeps complaining and I hate it!

He is allergic to my Mootjie  and this makes me angry!

By Holly, Chloe, Ryder and Kai

13^th November 1944

Dear Diary,

It is so ratty in here and the floor is hard as stone and as dirty as sand mixed with mud!

I am starving now and there is no food at all at the moment.

I feel chlostrophobic!

By Holly, Megan, Ellymae, Lucy and Jessica

Performance Poetry in Year 4

Performance poetry in Year 4.

The children in Mrs Moffat’s group for Literacy spent two weeks working on poems by Pie Corbett.  They chose their favourite style and wrote their own version of the poem then they performed it to the class.  It was scary, but everyone had a go!  After they had watched themselves on the whiteboard the children gave their performance two stars and a wish!

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