Year 4S

Year 4’s Virtual Renaissance

To distance or not to distance? That was the problem. Year 4 wanted to put on a classic Renaissance Fayre to showcase their learning about the Renaissance, but social distancing measures made that impossible. So, what to do? The students put to work their new HPL values of Flexible Thinking and Enquiry and jumped online.

Students diligently researched different aspects of the Renaissance and chose to present four categories: Art, Clothes, Food & Drink, and Fighting & Weaponry. They learned many interesting facts about what life was like 500 years ago and would like to share their favourites with you:

- Salt used to be very expensive. - Rich women wore up to nine layers of dresses. - Guns took over a minute to reload after one shot. - Only royalty were allowed to wear purple.

In the end, the presentations came together beautifully. Students coordinated their roles from both school and home and were able to present from their desks, the board, and even from their bedrooms. They finished on a high note, feeling, as Leonardo da Vinci did, that “Learning never exhausts the mind!”

Ms Aliviana Sanders