This week in the classroom...
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!
13th 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.
6th 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.
In Computing, we used data loggers to measure and record the levels of light, sound and temperature in different locations around school. In Geography, we looked at human features around Europe such as buildings, roads and railways. We ended the week by watching a fantastic pantomime on Friday afternoon!29th November 2024
This week Year 3 and 4 have started reading The Robot and the Bluebird and have been looking at spotting speech marks, prepositions and description within the text.
This week Year 3 and 4 have started reading The Robot and the Bluebird and have been looking at spotting speech marks, prepositions and description within the text.
On Thursday, we had a super workshop with Carolyn from the RSPC who talked to us all about pet care.
In Maths, we have been learning about mass and volume. We have been estimating, measuring and solving problems involving mass and volume.
22nd November 2024
This week Year 3 and 4 have been finishing their amazing story ending for The Steadfast Tin Soldier!
This week Year 3 and 4 have been finishing their amazing story ending for The Steadfast Tin Soldier!
In Maths, we have started our new unit all about mass, volume and capacity. We have looked at measuring in grams and kilograms, litres and millilitres and solving problems involving measure.
In Religion this week, we thought about what Christians and Jewish people believe about right and wrong. We learnt about the ten commandments and Moses and discussed what people might learn from stories from the Bible.
In French, we looked at the phonemes ‘ch’ and ‘j’ and practised saying what hobbies we like to do.
15th November 2024
We have had a busy week in Year 3 and 4 this week! On Monday, we created poppy art collages for Remembrance Day and held a two minute silence during our Remembrance assembly. We have also worked on creating 3D effects in our artwork by mixing different shades of paint.
On Tuesday, we celebrated all of our differences and Anti-Bullying Week by wearing our odd socks and writing anti-bullying haiku poems. Wednesday was World Kindess Day, Thursday was World Diabetes Day and Friday Children in Need Day!
In English, we have started to write our alternative endings to the Steadfast Tin Soldier story using powerful adjectives and adverbial phrases in our writing.
In Science, we experimented with how friction affects the movement of objects and the different forces we use in our everyday lives.
8th November 2024
Year 3 and 4 have made a super start back after half term! In Maths, we have been ordering and comparing 3-digit numbers. In English, we have started our new book, The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Anderson. We talked about other famous tales that he has written such as The Little Mermaid and The Princess and the Pea and discussed how the solider might be feeling at different points in the story.
In art lessons, we had a go at mixing tints and shades by adding white or black paint to different colours. In Science, we started our new topic Magnets and Forces and experimented with making a ball move using different contact forces.
24th October 2024
This week, Year 3 and 4 finished their Maths unit on measure and published their non-chronological reports and Space poems! We have also completed some fabulous artwork on influencial black people for Black History Month.
We hope you have a lovely half term and we look forward to seeing you after the break!
18th October 2024
This week, Year 3 and 4 have been busy writing their non-chronological reports all about Stonehenge. They have included an introduction, subheadings and lots of interesting facts about the stone age structure.
For Recycle Week, we have also been thinking about the impact of plastic pollution on our planet and what we can do to help. We each wrote a 'Plastic Pledge' as a committment to reduce, reuse or recycle our plastic.
In Maths, we have been continuing to learn about measuring in metres, centimetres and millimetres. The children have had chance to estimate the lengths of different objects and then measure them accurately using a metre stick or ruler.
11th October 2024
Year 3 and 4 have had a great day celebrating Space Week! We were very lucky to have the opportunity to go in the Space Dome! Inside, we learnt about our Solar System, watched the very first moon landing and learnt about the Northern Lights. I was so impressed with the children's questions for our presenter! I think we all had a great time!
Continuing our Space theme in our Music lesson, we listened to extracts from The Planets by composer Gustav Holst and Moon Music by Coldplay.
4th October 2024
What a busy week in Year 3 and 4 showing our visitors what an amazing school we have! Over the week in Maths we have looked at place value in hundreds numbers and addition and subtraction problem solving. In Science, we looked at different types of soil and what they are made from. In History, we talked about the Mesolithic Era (Middle Era) of the Stone Age and the types of shelters they built. We have also started our new book, 'Secrets of Stonehenge'.
On Friday, we celebrated Kindness Week with children writing beautiful thank you letters and creating artwork to celebrate kindness. We are also looking forward to Space Week next week!
27th September 2024
Another super week for Year 3 and 4! We have continued our fitness module in PE, completing circuit exercises and relay warm ups. In Art, we used charcoal to enlarge our animal sketches from last week.
In our My Happy Mind lessons we have continued to learn all about our brain - in particular our Hippocampus, Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex which make up 'Team HAP'. We looked at using deep breaths ('happy breathing') to calm our mind when we are worried, scared or upset.
In Maths, we have been adding multiples of 10 and using number facts to help. For example if we know 7 + 6 = 13, then 70 + 60 = 130.
Our spelling rule for next week is the /i/ sound spelled with a 'y'.
20th September 2024
This week, we have finished writing our Stone Age Boy story and we have started to come up with ideas for our new stories! They sound very exciting and are going to be set in Ancient Egyptian times or around the time of the Great Fire of London.
In Music, we have started to come up with our own lyrics to 'Stone Age baby, Stone Age!' experimenting with different rhythms and rhyme.
In PSHE, we have talked about how important it is to look after our Earth and the children came up with lots of ideas about how we can do this. We talked about recycling, saving water, saving electricity and looking after wildlife.
13th September 2024
Another fantastic week in Year 3 and 4! We have looked at subtracting numbers from and to 10, using our number facts to help. In computing, we talked about how to stay safe online and created e-safety posters.
In our writing lessons, we have looked at how to punctuate speech correctly using inverted commas (speech marks) and started to write our Stone Age Boy story.
We have also looked at the Stone Age in history and the evidence that archaeologists have found such as footprints, old stone tools and bones!
5th September 2024
What a fantastic start to the school year! This week, Year 3 and 4 have settled into their new classroom and started reading our class books that will be our focus for reading and writing.
We have used doubles and near doubles facts to help us add three numbers together in maths.
In Science, we looked carefully at how different types of rocks are formed and their characteristics.
