Book Club
Enjoy seeing some of our 3,4A learners enjoying their favourite books in today’s book club…
Help at home: Ensure your child reads daily for around ten minutes and completes their reading record task ready for Friday’s book club!
Year 3/4 – PE
This week, we’ve enjoyed taking part in yoga which is excellent for both physical and mental health. It helps to develop strength and flexibility. We enjoyed trying the following poses:
- warrior one
- warrior two
- triangle
- tree
Why not try some yoga at home?
Yorkshire Museum Trip
Recently, Y3,4 went on a school trip to the Yorkshire Museum!
We learnt more about the Romans, our current topic in History, and other periods of history as we looked around the museum, too. We also enjoyed observing artefacts that date back to the Roman period in Britain.
A highlight, though, had to be marching as a centurion!
A centurion is a commander of a century in the ancient Roman army.
Did you know? As the Romans stood opposite their enemies before battle, they stood in complete silence as an intimidation tactic! Much different to war cries you may have heard from other armies!
Writing – recount
This week, the children have written a recount as if they were a Celt getting prepared for the Roman Invasion.
In their writing, the children have included:
- similes
- subordinate conjunctions (as, when, since)
- thoughts and feelings
- past tense
Here are some examples of their work.
Violet:
‘It dawned upon me that today was the day of the battle. I felt a jolt of dread like a lightening bolt strike. I knew I had to be as prepared as I possibly could be.’
Stanley:
‘Eventually, I knew it was time to go. As we crept in the shadows of the forest, we could see the Roman soldiers.’
Kiera:
‘The sun from far below the clouds glistened in the cold breeze as I slowly pulled aside my sheep skin throw. A sea of fury washed over me as I thought about the battle ahead.’
Reading: Book club
Every week, on a Friday, Year 3 and 4 children enjoy a Book Club session. During our sessions each week, children share their reading record activities, enjoy reading for pleasure and share favourite books they have read.
In our Friday Book Club sessions, we often use Authorfy. Authorfy is a website that we use in school to enrich the children’s reading. We’ve watched interviews with authors that we’ve learnt about and we’ve completed 10 minute challenges. It’s also a great place to look for inspiration of what to read next.
Authorfy is free for the National Year of Reading 2026!
Help at home by visiting the Authorfy website and exploring the different sections. Can you and your child complete a 10 minute challenge together? Can you find an interview from your favourite author? What book will you read next?
Living and Learning: Democracy
Over the last three weeks, in Living and Learning, we have been focussing on the British Values.
Democracy
Individual Liberty
Respect and Tolerance
Rule of Law
Each week, we have focussed on a different British value.
To start, we looked at Democracy.
Democracy means power to the people and comes from the Ancient Greeks, who invented democracy. Demos = people and kratos = power or rule.
We learnt about what democracy looks like in the UK and what happens in our school that relates to it: the JLT elections, voting for something in class etc.
Help at home: Ask your child to think what our country would be like if we weren’t in a democracy.
Year 3,4 Topic – Romans and Anglo – Saxons
Welcome back and Happy New Year!
Our History based topic this half term is ‘The Romans and Anglo- Saxons’. This week, the children have been locating these periods of history on a timeline and finding out about life in Britain before the Roman invasion.
We’re all looking forward to our school trip to the Yorkshire Museum later this month.
Help at home by looking at the BBC Bitesize website to find out more about the Romans.
Merry Christmas!
A massive thank you to all the Year 3 and Year 4 children and their families for an amazing autumn term.
What a fantastic final week we’ve had. On Thursday we saw some fantastic inflatables that Mrs Pennock brought in for us, enjoyed our delicious Christmas dinner and partied in the hall!
We’ve all enjoyed finishing out art sculptures and making some Christmas crafts to take home too.
Thank you so much for all of the lovely Christmas cards and gifts. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas break.
Merry Christmas
Mrs Lake, Mr Wain and Mrs Wadsworth
Living and Learning: Feeling Good and Being Me
In a recent L&L session, the children in Y3 and 4 learnt all about Feeling Good and Being Me.
We learnt how to give and receive compliments in a mature way and which things were more appropriate to compliment somebody on.
For example, complimenting somebody on their effort in a Maths lesson would be more appropriate and beneficial than complimenting them on their new hair cut.
We learnt that our characteristics and how we treat other people (e.g. being kind, thoughtful and empathetic) are more ‘compliment worthy’ traits.
Receiving compliments is also a tricky thing to do and sometimes can make us feel a little uneasy. We role played receiving compliments before anonymously writing compliments for other members of our class to receive based on their learning, attitude, kindness and other aspects of their personality.
Help at home: Have an open discussion with your child about how to compliment somebody, how to receive compliments and things that make us better people.
A Zoom from Antarctica!
On Friday, KS2 made history by joining the first ever Zoom webinar streamed live to thousands of schools… from Antarctica!
Hosted by Picture News, we were joined by Robert Swan, a conservationist who is the first person to walk on both the North and South Poles.
We learnt about the importance of Antarctica and how we are all owners of this beautiful, unique continent.
Help at home: Visit the 2041 website and ask your child what they learnt on Friday.