Week Beginning 21st November

Not long to go now.  It will be Christmas before we know it.  First thing on Monday the children have a fantastic Mad Science assembly to look forward to.  Just a reminder as well that it is the second of the sessions for the Sacramental preparation programme for the Year 4s this Thursday.  This will be taking place at St Joseph’s at half 6pm.

English

Year 3

This week we will read The Tunnel by Anthony Browne which is an adventure/mystery story.  We will create a story map, thinking about the beginning, the build-up, the dilemma, the resolution and the ending.  We will think carefully about the characters' thoughts and feelings and carry out some drama activities to really understand them.  Following our drama, we will delve deeper into the text and look at some of the grammatical features, in particular, adverbial phrases.  Adverbial phrases give us more information about the verbs in a sentence.  The children will then put these into practice and re-write part of the story, using some of the adverbials that they have learned.

Year 4

Children have spent the last couple of weeks looking at creative extended writing.  This is because all Catholic primary schools have got together recently to compare writing from all year groups.  Consequently, the previous unit of work was put on hold.  However, we are going to start a shorter unit this week based on poetry.  Throughout this unit children will enjoy the range of poems and discuss and explore their uses of figurative language. They will learn and revise metaphor, simile and personification and then identify the features of free verse, haiku and performance poetry. Finally they draft and write their own poems using ones from the unit as models.

Maths

Year 3

Learning Area –            Measures - Time

Learning Concept -          Estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute;

Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII

                                                               

Teaching sequence -      Read the time to one minute intervals.

Estimate the time to the nearest five minute interval, e.g. it is nearly ten past four.

Recognise the Roman numerals from I to XII.

Place I –XII on a clock face in correct place

Read time on clock with Roman numerals

Show equivalent time from Roman numeral clock face on regular analogue face and vice versa

  

Year 4

Learning Area –            Multiplication and Division

Learning Concept -          Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations.

Teaching sequence -      Explain the term ‘factor pair’.

Know all the factors within all numbers to 10.

Work out all the factors of any number to 144.

Know the term ‘square number’ and recall all square numbers associated with numbers 1 –144.

 RE

Children will be finishing off their new unit for RE entitled Promises.  This week children will be remembering, celebrating and responding to how belonging to a group involves promises and rules and the meaning of the promises made at Baptism.