Welcome to Year 3 and 4

Croeso!

Year 3 - Miss Fisher

Year 4 - Mr Morris

Leadership time and PPA cover - Mrs Thorne and Mr Smith

Interventions - Mrs Thorne

Enthralling Earth 

We're diving into the new term with our topic, "Enthralling Earth." We've already jumped in with some exciting workshops, including Dino-Mania, Mad Science, and the BBC Now orchestra. The children have been exploring how volcanoes are created and the impact they can have on our world.

During literacy sessions, we'll focus on poetry using metaphor, explanation texts, and revisiting non-chronological report writing.

AOLE Main Focus Overview

Literacy Language and Communication - poetry, explanation texts, revisiting non-chronological report writing and stories, International Language - Italian

Maths and Numeracy - multiplication and division, shape, perimeter and area

Science and Technology - changes to the earth - volcanoes

Heath and Wellbeing - physical and mental health

Expressive Arts - Dance, Paint (Colour), Music - learning the PBuzz

Humanities - RVE - stewardship of the Earth, Easter 

How to help at home.

-Daily reading at home will support your child's learning, talk about the story.  Here are some questions you could ask when you are reading together...

What do you think this story will be about? What might happen in the story?  Which part of the story is your favourite / least favourite? Why? • Would you change any part of the story? How? • Would you change any of the characters? How? • Which part of the story was the funniest, scariest, saddest, and happiest? Find some evidence in the text to support your opinion.  • What might happen next? • How do you think the story might end? • Who is your favourite character? Why? • Who is the character you like least? Why? • Find 2 sentences, which describe the setting.

Year 3 - Please update Boomreader regularly. 

Opportunities for children in Y3 and Y4 to practise spellings and times tables on SpellingShed and Times Table Rockstars

Important information: 

• PE - Please can children bring their PE kits to school and them leave them here for the week.  Please ensure all clothing items are labelled. Year 3 have PE on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Year 4 have PE on Thursdays
• Forest Schools - this will be roughly every third Friday afternoon. We will message out when clothing needed. 
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Snacks and Water

• Please can children bring a healthy snack to school for playtime.
• Please can children bring a clearly labelled water bottle. They will always have access to their water bottles and we can refill throughout the day.

What will Literacy look like? 

• Home/school reading books will be changed when the book has been completed and this will be recorded in reading records.  Please listen to your child read as often as possible.  
• As part of our teaching of literacy we will be teaching a variety of genres over the course of the year.  
• We will continue to use Oracy 21 to continue to develop different strands of our speaking and listening skills.

What will maths look like?

• Maths sessions will be a variety of practical and written tasks. We will be revisiting place value, addition and subtraction, and moving onto multiplication and division later in the year. 
• Over the course of the week we will look at problem solving and reasoning tasks. 
• We will be using Times Tables Rock Stars during the week, to support the learning and recall of times tables.