Another Monday has come round
again and we are all set in Year 3/4. We
would like to thank parents who kindly made a donation during last Friday’s own
clothes day as the school played its part in the Jeans for Genes day and also
for the generous contributions towards the collection for the Harvest Festival
Mass. A big well done to our Year 3/4 children
for their great behaviour when going and taking part in swimming last week. Let’s see if we can be even better this week.
Last week Year 4s had to undertake
some start of year tests. They have all
done really themselves proud and tackled the tests well showing a great
attitude towards their learning. Due to
these tests however, this week’s blog will look very similar for the Year 4s as
planned core lessons were not delivered last week.
English
Year 3
This week is our
final week learning about adventure stories. We will continue to focus on
our own ideas for a new version of the story Stone Age Boy. We will
use talk to share some ideas for a new story, plan the story and write a class
version together. We
will be looking at how to use varied and interesting sentences as well as
including the correct punctuation. In particular, we will focus on using
adjectives and adverbs. Then it is over to the children where they will
plan and write their own adventure story independently. We cannot
wait to hear the children's ideas.
Year 4
In English we are starting a new unit of work
called ‘A Huge First Step’. In
this unit, the children select applicants to be trained as astronauts for a
mission to Mars. We will be reading about Neil Armstrong using an interactive
eBook. We will look at and be using the
features and layout of the eBook to find out about Neil Armstrong’s personal
qualities. Children will be focussing on effective use of pronouns and fronted
adverbials to develop their grammar.
These skills will then be applied in their own writing when they produce
diary entries and biographies. These
text types will also be transferred over to and applied to our topic work.
Maths
Year 3
Learning Area – Measures and
Perimeter
Learning Concept - Measure
the perimeter of simple 2D shapes.
Teaching sequence - Know the term ‘perimeter’
Know that the perimeter is the distance around the sides of a
shape
Understand that the perimeter refers to distance in real life
contexts, e.g. football pitch
Measure accurately each side of 2D shapes and add lengths to
find the perimeter
Year 4
Learning Area – Place Value
Learning Concept - Count
in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000.
Teaching sequence - Count on and back in
1000s from 0 to 10,000
Count on and back in 10s
from any given multiple between 0 and 10,000
Count on and back in
100s from 0 to 10,000
Count on and back in 50s
from 0 to 1000 starting at any given multiple
Count on and back in 25s from 0 to 1000 starting at
any given multiple
Count on and back in 9s
from 0 to 1000 starting at any given multiple
Count on in 8s from 0 to
1000 starting at any given multiple
Count on in 7s from 0 to
1000 starting at any given multiple
Count on in 6s from 0 to
1000 starting at any given multiple.
Topic
This week we will be
continuing with our first topic of the year – the Stone Age. Children will be learning about what humans
needed in order to survive during the Stone Age. They will explore:
·
the
different challenges of survival which the early men and women faced.
·
where
the Stone Age gets its name from.
·
the
tools which were crucial for the survival of early men and women.
·
how
tools changed to make hunting more successful
This week will see
the children taking a look at the bow and arrow and trying their hand at
advertising the product.
RE
Children
will be continue with their first RE unit this week entitled ‘Homes’. They will explore the following questions
through class discussion and a range of activities:
·
What is God’s vision for every family?
·
What does God want the relationship between children
and parents to be like?
·
Who was part of the Holy family?
·
When is God with us and our families?
