Welcome to Year 3 and 4!

Our value this term is: Compassion

Staff

Year 3: Miss Weatherley

Year 4: Mrs Van As

Year 3 and Year 4 will combine in the afternoons.

Year 3 and 4 Weekly Overview

Spellings: Week 9 – 9th November – 're-' prefix

redo
retry
reuse
reappear
return
renew
replay
rebuild
reread
rewrite

We have continued to practise our weekly spellings in class. It would be greatly appreciated if you could support your child by practising these spellings at home throughout the week to help reinforce their learning. We have attached the Year 3 and 4 Spelling Homework booklet on this page if you would like a copy of this at home. 

In English, Year 3 and 4 have started their new unit on Escape from Pompeii. We have learnt about expanded noun phrases and prepositions, as well as analysing different scenes from the book, focusing on the five senses. We then practised using these features in a descriptive piece of writing. We explored and analysed the character's feelings and emotions in different moments from the book, and wrote a diary entry.

In Mathematics, Year 3 have completed our addition and subtraction unit and started looking at multiplication and division for this term. We completed our baseline assessment, continued to practice our 3 and 4 timetables and learnt how to multiply and divide by 3 and 4. We have been using counters to help us visualise and create arrays to help with the children's understanding. We spent time separating counters into pots to show the children how we equally share into groups when we are multiplying and dividing. 

This week, the children in Year 4 began their new Maths topic on Multiplication and Division. We completed a baseline assessment before learning the 3 and 4 times tables and exploring how to divide by 3. To support their understanding, the children have been using cubes to create arrays, helping them visualise and build multiplication and division calculations. Next, we will continue developing our understanding of the 4 times table and related division facts as well as multiplying and dividing by 7.

In Guided Reading this week, we have been studying a poem called Pompeii. Each day, the children explored different features and aspects of the poem, developing their understanding of its language and meaning.

In Topic this week, we started our Music topic! We learnt all about the work of the composer Hans Zimmer. We listened to some of his work, learnt about different beat values, explored pitched and unpitched instruments and started to plan our own volcano soundscapes.  

PE Kits

In P.E, we are looking at Basketball.

Our PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Children will need to be dressed in full PE kit when coming to school. 

Please ensure the children have a jumper and coat as the weather gets colder!