• This week in the classroom...

Welcome to Year 3 and 4

Hello, and welcome to our Year 3 and 4 class page! 

We hope you all had a wonderful break and are excited to be starting a new school term!  

General information about Years 3 and 4:

• Homework each week:
  • Reading - daily
  • Times tables - daily
  • Dreambox Maths - x3 lessons per week
  • Spellings - online spellings games on Spelling Shed
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• P.E lessons will be on Tuesday and Friday. On those days, children should come to school in their PE kit. 
• Please ensure that items of clothing are clearly named. 
• Children will have a banded reading book and a 'reading for pleasure' book.  Children should try to read for 5 minutes each day and record this in their reading log.
• All books are signed out to children under a library system and they will be expected to return their current book before they are allowed to take another.
• Children need to bring their own water bottles into school.  Please only send your child in with water.  Other drinks such as juice, smoothies etc should be kept only for lunch.
• Snack will be served in the hall at break times.  Children should bring their snack money in a labelled purse or wallet.

Curriculum

Maths

During the first half term, we will look at understanding additive relationships and apply them to different equations.  We will also be working on multiplication and division strategies, how to simplify muliplication problems and look at multiplying three numbers.  We will continue to use TTRockstars to help build your child’s fluency in their times tables knowledge.

English

In writing, your children will be using The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes to retell the story, write a character description and write poetry.  We will look at including lots of description, adverbials and punctuating speech correctly.   In reading, we will be focusing on the books Water, Cinderella of the Nile and Greek Myths - Midas . 

PE

PE days are Tuesdays and Fridays.  PE on Fridays will be with our sports coach.  

Science

Our Science topic this half term is Sound and Vibrations during which children will learn about how sound is made, how different sounds are produced and how different animals hear sound.

History

In History we will learn about the Ancient Greeks, the geography and location of the ancient Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta's rivalry, and evaluate what ancient Greek myths can tell us about Ancient Greek culture.

Geography 

In Geography, we will look at rivers.  We will learn about the key features of a river system, know how rivers drain the land and describe the processes happening in a river and landforms that they create.

Music

In our music lessons we will start to learn the pBuzz instrument including starting to read music and perform together.  

Computing

In Computing, we will be learning how to create media using stop-frame animation and how to create audio files.

French

In French, we will be learning the months of the year, how to talk about families and animals.  We will continue to improve our speaking and listening skills and well as developing our reading and writing skills.

PSHE

In PSHE, we are looking at how friends can communicate safely and how we can recognise our own and other peoples’ feelings.  We will continue to think about our online safety as we use technology both in school and at home.