The Amazon, Literacy and Ancient Benin
Spring term in Year 4 has been extremely busy, but as a result of this all the children have put in an effort to work as a team and showed off their learning in a variety of fantastic ways!
In our year 4 Spring term topic we have begun to learn about rivers from all over the world, starting with the River Thames.
As part of our learning we have explored river features and also learnt how rivers can change over time.To support us in our learning, we visited the River Thames at Greenwich to go mud larking. We searched the banks of the river to retrieve interesting artefacts from hundreds of years ago. In the Victorian times, children who were the same age as us had to mud lark to provide for their families.
As well as mud larking, we learnt that the Thames is a tidal river, which is why ancient artefacts are washed up on the shore. We had the opportunity to look at artefacts from Victorian and Roman periods. It was fascinating! When we got back to school, we used our experience to help us write a newspaper report about mud larking.
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The Amazon, Literacy and Ancient Benin
In year 4 our spring term topic we learnt about rivers from all over the world from the Thames to the Amazon.
