Class Wye - Year 3 & 4
Teacher – Mr Davies (PPA- Mrs Generalovic)
Teaching Assistants – Mrs Generalovic & Mrs Jones
Welcome back everyone and Welcome to Class Wye.
I hope you have all had a brilliant summer spent with friends and family. It has been lovely to see all the children back in school and I have been so impressed with their attitude and determination to learn since being back.
English
This first half term we will be focusing on the book 'Tar Beach' by Faith Ringgold. The book focuses on the topics of 'Imagination and Freedom'. This text will hopefully inspire our children to write a narrative retelling in the form of a play script. We will then follow this up with 'Varmints' by Helen Ward.
Throughout this term, we will also have separate sessions which focus on Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, ensuring we equip our learners with the skills needed to construct fluent, coherent and accurate pieces of writing.
Maths
Our main focus for this half-term will be on 'Place Value'. Children will be given opportunities to demonstrate an understanding of numbers up to 10,000, including how these numbers are constructed through use of partitioning. We will then move onto skills of estimation and rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
TimesTables
We will have daily arithmetic sessions that focus on misconceptions that arise in class, as well as our times-tables. For the first part of this term, we will be recapping our 5 and 10 times tables. For the Year 4's, we will be focusing more on the speed of recall to ensure these are consolidated effectively, before moving on to other areas.
Please ensure your child continues to practice their times tables at home through the use of TTRS. This is an invaluable learning tool to support their speed and accuracy.
Science
We will be learning and investigating 'Digestion and Food'. We'll focus on aspects such as: The Human digestive system; Teeth; and poo. If anyone has any skulls or animal teeth that they wouldn't mind sharing with us, we would be really appreciative.
History and Geography
For the first half-term we will be focusing on History, before switching to Geography after the half-term break. In history we will learn about 'How children's lives have changed?' through different periods of times, from the Romans to present day.
In Geography will consider the question, 'Who lives in Antarctica?"
Art and DT
Art will be our topic of focus for this half-term before switching to D.T. Our focus in Art relates to Painting and Mixed media, especially 'Light and Dark'.
Music
We will be very fortunate to have lessons from Mrs Gibson from Encore for the Autumn Term.
In RE, we will be focusing on the question, 'What kind of world did Jesus want?'
PSHE will focus on Being me in my world'. We will also continue our Yasmine and Tom RSE lessons.
PE will be on Wednesdays and Fridays. Please can children come into school wearing their P.E kits.
Homework-
Both Year 3 and 4 children are expected to read their reading books daily and complete 20 minutes of Times Table Rock Stars per week. Children who continually read at home with receive certificates every 25 reads, and those who read the most, will receive a reward at the end of the academic year.
If you have any questions/queries, please email or ring the school office.