Years 3/4

International Women's Day: Break the Bias

On Wednesday the 8th of March we celebrated International Women's Day. We discussed why there is such a thing as International Women's Day and we explored this year's theme: Break the Bias. We learnt about the word 'bias'. As a class, we had some really great discussions about bias and inequality in the past and also where/when we have observed gender bias in the present day. Throughout our robust discussion, we discovered that gender bias is not exclusive to women: we have all experienced gender bias within our lives both as males and females. We discussed the colour blue for boys and pink for girls, and toys such as dolls for girls verses cars for boys. The Year 3/4 students were passionate about the fact that our gender should not influence things such as the colours we like, the toys we play with or even how we feel and act. Following from this, we discussed the women we look up to and why these women are our role models. Here are some of the special women in our lives! 

International Women's Day by Gwyn Nettleton

I feel so sad because sometimes girls are treated different. I have been told so many times I should cry because I fell, or I throw like a girl, I should play with dolls, I should like pink or purple or you will hurt yourself playing football. We must stop treating people differently and should treat everyone the same and equally. 

International Women's Day by Emma Thomas

In lots of countries, girls are not allowed to vote. I feel sorry for girls who have to put up with this. Break The Bias is all about giving women and men the same opportunities. All humans, male or female, should be treated equally. Every day in different countries this is happening right now! It is so sad what is happening and we can help this by breaking the bias in our country! 

Every year, International Women's Day is celebrated on the 8th of March and International Men's Day is celebrated on the 19th of November.

Maths Update

We have been learning different problem solving techniques in Maths. We have been learning about lots of different strategies that we can use to help us solve tricky problems! 

In Maths we have also been learning about grid maps. We learnt how to read a grid map and then we created our own! We then wrote questions for a partner to answer such as 'What would you find as (F, 7)?' so they could have a go at locating things on our map. 

A Spelling Challenge

When we came across the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism' in our class novel, obviously we had to have a challenge to try and spell it ourselves. Coming in at a staggering 28 letters, 'antidisestablishmentarianism' is one of the longest words in the English language! We broke the word down into key parts, and when we did that, it was actually pretty easy! Everyone in the class got at least 23 out of the 28 letters correct and in the right spots. The hardest part was the 'arian' section where some students got a few letters incorrect but it was awesome to see that this part of the word was sounded out correctly! It gets tricky when sounds can be represented by different letter combinations. We had an awesome celebration of our AMAZING efforts at the end because there was quite the freak out at the start when Miss Thompson said we would be spelling 'antidisestablishmentarianism'!