Week Beginning 16th January

Another week full of opportunities to learn new things and practise what we have already covered.  Children also have the Friends of St Vincent’s Film Night to look forward to this week.  Can we take this opportunity as a phase team to thank all parents and grandparents who came along last Thursday to help with the pantomime and to thank all others who offered to help too.  We all had a great time and Mr Hughes has now fully recovered from the experience.

English

Year 3

We will continue our topic on myths and legends this week, which the children are really enjoying.  Having read a variety of Roman myths and identified their key features, we will go on to plan and write our own myths.  We will use the story of Romulus and Remus as a model, changing elements of it to make it our own.  We will incorporate speech into our writing, using the correct speech punctuation in our conversations between characters.  The children have been looking at synonyms for said too, so we will expect to see some of these in their independent writing.

Year 4

Children will be continuing with the non-fiction unit this week.  This week they will be looking at the features of journalistic writing and the type of language that is used in the media to encourage readers/listeners to pay attention.  Children will also be thinking about interview processes used to gather information for journalistic writing and will be devising their own interview questions.

Maths

Year 3

Learning Area –            Place Value

Learning Concept -          Compare and order numbers up to 1000

Recognise the place value of each digit in a 3 digit number

Teaching sequence -      Know which number in a set of 3 digit numbers is the greatest

Know which number in a set of 3 digit numbers is the smallest

Order a set of 3 digit numbers from smallest to largest

Order a set of 3 digit numbers from largest to smallest

Identify the hundreds, tens and ones in any 3 digit number

Partition a 3 digit number identifying the value

Year 4

Learning Area –            Statistics

Learning Concept -          Interpret and present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including:

-bar charts

-time graphs

                                               

Teaching sequence -      Tell the story’ of a bar chart with no scales on the axes

‘Tell the story’ of a bar chart with scales on the axes

‘Tell the story’ of a time graph with no scales on the axes

‘Tell the story’ of a time graph with scales on the axes

Construct a bar chart with correct labelling of both axes

Plot information on a time graph

Topic

This week children will be continuing with our new topic of ‘The Romans’.  This week children will be learning about who the Romans were and where they lived.  They will also be exploring who their leaders were and what family life was like for the Romans.

 RE

Children will be continuing with their RE topic - Journeys.  For the next couple of weeks children will be working through the Reveal section of this unit.  This first week will have children looking at the liturgical year, the seasons of the Church and what Ordinary Time is.