14^th February 2025

What a busy last week of the half term!  On Tuesday, we celebrated ‘Safer Internet Day’ and ‘Women in Science Day’.  We reminded ourselves how to stay safe online, how to spot a scam and what makes a strong password. 

For Women in Science Day we talked about some amazing women such as Ada Lovelace (first computer programmer), Florence Nightingale (famous nurse who improved hospitals) and Marie Curie (first person to ever win two Nobel prizes)! 

We were also lucky enough to enjoy a visit from Sarah at Sowing Roots who led a fantastic storytelling workshop for us.  We shared our favourite books and characters, played stroytelling games and performed freeze frames for sections of 'The Parable of the Lost Son'.  What a busy week!

7^th February 2025

In Maths this week we have moved on to learning how to use column subtraction.  We have looked at identifying the minuend (the number you are subtracting from) and the subtrahend (the number you are subtracting) and used column subtraction with 3-digit numbers.

In English we have looked at different forms of poetry.  We have started to plan our Dragon poems for the Trust writing competition and came up with some great ideas for a kenning poem.  We also celebrated National Storytelling Week by exploring and discussing our new books Black Dog and Welcome to our world.

This week was also Children’s mental health week with a focus on ‘Know yourself, Grow yourself’.  We joined in with the BBC’s live lesson ‘School of Kindness’ and thought about how our weekly My Happy Mind lessons help us to celebrate our own character strengths.

31^st January 2025

In Maths this week we have continued to work on column addition using 4-digit numbers.  We also looked at questions which required regrouping the ones, tens or hundreds.

In English, we have published our letters written from the perspective of the characters Blue John or the Queen of Darkness.  We also started our new book ‘The King Who Banned the Dark’ and started to think about the characters, setting and similarities to ‘Blue John’.

In Music, we have continued our topic on Folk music, looking at different pieces from Wales and Scotland.  We discussed the types of instruments used, the use of vocals and looked at simple music notes.

24^th January 2025

In Maths this week we have been working on column addition.  The children have learnt how to carefully set out the columns ensuring that each digit is in the correct place value column and remembering to add from the ones column first.  We have also started working on our 9 times tables, looking at different patterns and tricks to help us recall them quickly.

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In English, we have continued to discuss the characters from Blue John and started to look at how to write a letter.  Our descriptions last week of the icy glaciers and gloomy caves were fantastic!  We used lots of powerful adjectives, verbs and similes!

In Computing, we have started to create our own documents using Microsoft Publisher.  We have looked at using images as well as changing the font, colour and size of text.

In Science, we looked at using switches in a circuit and had a go and building our own.  Have a go at the online circuit builder at home!

https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/circuit-construction-kit-dc/latest/circuit-construction-kit-dc_en.html

17^th January 2025

Another great week for Year 3 and 4!  This week, all of the children made a fantastic start to our swimming lessons.  We learnt the rules of being in and around a pool and really impressed our swimming coaches! 

In French, we revised how to say our colours in French and revised our French phonics sounds ‘un’ and ‘on’. In Art, we started our 3D structures topic and looked at making different joins for different materials.  In Science we learned how to make and test electrical circuits!  

10^th January 2025

Year 3 and 4 have had a fantastic first week back! We have looked at ordering and comparing 4-digit numbers in Maths, we have started our new book Blue John in English and we started our electricity topic in Science!

In History, we learnt about when people first started using Bronze to make tools, pots and jewellery at the start of The Bronze Age. 

20th December 2024

Year 3 and 4 have had a lovely last week before Christmas!  In our My Happy Mind lesson we made 'thankfulness wreaths' which included things we are grateful for and the character strengths we are grateful for at this time of year.  

In maths, we looked at partioning 1000 and 2000 looking at counting in 100s, 200s, 250s and 500s.  We also looked at data in graphs and tables. 

In computing we set up our data logger to record the temperature in our classroom over the afternoon.  We were surprised to find out that it got two degrees warmer over the afternoon!  We also enjoyed writing some festive Haiku poems!

And of course our Christmas Fair was the highlight of our week! Thank you to everyone who supported this event - we had a great time! 

13^th December 2024

Year 3 and 4 have had a very festive week with rehearsals in full swing for our Christmas performances on Thursday!  They were fantastic!

We have also been working on numbers to 2,000 in Maths.  In English, we have continued to write our fantastic The Robot and the Bluebird stories. 

In Science, we finished our Forces and Magnets topic by thinking about the different uses of magnets. In Geography, we learnt about the different types of land use in Europe including farming, energy and buildings.

6^th December 2024

This week, Year 3 and 4 have been working on perimeters in maths.  We have calculated the perimeter of different shapes in centimetres using our numbers facts to help.  In Art, we finished our still life paintings and evaluated our use of light and dark to create a 3D effect.