Kingfishers

Our teacher is Miss Boyagis. We are a mixed class of 28 Year 3/4 children.

We have PE on Thursdays.  This term, we are swimming at Five Rivers. Please ensure that your child has everything that they need. 

Reading books and records must be brought in daily. Children should be reading and doing times table practise every day an adult.

Spellings will be set every Monday, to be brought back the following Monday.

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English

We are sentence stacking for a non chronological report about Earthquakes, based on our topic from last term. In SPAG, we are still consolidating sentence types and clauses.

Book Club

In Book Club, we are reading Paddington. This week, we are exploring the context of Paddington - who is Michael Bond? Where is Peru?

Maths

The children will be following mixed age planning for White Rose. We are starting multiplication and division.

Year 3/4: sharing and grouping, 2, 5 and 10 times tables, 4 and 8 times tables

All activities will involve reasoning and problem solving.

This unit will support the children who need to regularly revising times tables in school and at home.

Times tables:

Year 3:  x3

Year 4: x8

Children have daily times tables activities. It is wonderful to see so many children revising times tables at home.  Well done to you all – it is so important as they are key to all areas of maths.

Year 4 will have the statutory MTC (Multiplication Tables Check) in June in which the response time is 6 seconds!

Science

Science topic: Rocks

This week, we are grouping rocks. 

Religious Education

RE topic: What is the Trinity and why is it important for Christians?
Taught by Mr Howard

History

History topic: How hard was it to invade and settle in Britain?

This week, we are learning what Sutton Hoo tells us about Anglo-Saxons. 

Art

Art topic: Abstract Shape and Space

This week, we are making structural shapes. 

Computing

RE topic: Programming on Scratch
Taught by Mr Howard