Living and Learning – Healthy eating
This week and next, Year 3,4 are looking at all things healthy eating!
So far, we have discussed what is meant by a ‘balanced diet’ and used the ‘Eatwell Guide ‘ to talk about the different food groups and roughly how much of each of the food groups constitutes a balanced meal.
Next week we will move on to explore what people should eat more or less of and consider the issue of hidden sugars. We will also learn about simple food swaps and ideas to develop healthy eating habits.
Help at home by asking us what the main food groups are!
3,4B Class News
This week we have learnt lots of information about York and Venice across the curriculum!
In writing, we have produced our own promotional piece on either Venice or York – explaining lots of varied information about our chosen city whilst using persuasive devices such as alliteration, commands and rhetorical questions to encourage our audience to visit!
In geography, we have produced fact files on York and Venice – this time focusing on three geographical concepts – location, scale and place. This included using atlases to establish the direction from Leeds and the latitude and research online to find out facts such as population and size.
This term, our new class novel in Y3/4 is ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’. We are all really enjoying the story so far and can’t wait to find out what happens to Edward next!
Help at home by continuing to listen to your child read and asking them questions as they go to help develop their understanding.
Phase 3,4 Library visit
This week, each class had the opportunity to visit Scholes Library. We learned how we can borrow books and how the library service works.
We enjoyed spending time exploring the books and discovering new authors. Using our new class library cards, each class was able to borrow five books to read and enjoy in school.
Help at home by continuing to read regularly. Why not take a visit to Scholes Library?
3,4B Class News
This half term Year 3 and 4 have started a new geography topic – explorers. In this topic we are learning about different places within Europe and comparing and contrasting them. This week we created fact files on York and Venice – finding out lots of information such as latitude, population and area – using atlases and online search engines.
We have also linked this learning to our writing where we are producing a promotional text on either York or Venice. The children have really enjoyed carrying out independent research on their chosen city and are looking forward to publishing these pieces next week.
Help at home by continuing to listen to your child read and asking them questions as they go to help develop their understanding and encouraging your child to play on TTRS regularly.
Have a great weekend!
3,4A Class News
This term, our new class novel in Y3/4 is ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’. In Reading, we have used an extract from the book this week to practise different skills, such as understanding new vocabulary and retrieving information from the text. We have also been practising our reading fluency with a short poem about York – linking to our Geography and Writing units. We always discuss any new words the children are curious about – this week I felt very old trying to explain what the poet meant by York being ‘top of the pops’!
Help at home by continuing to listen to your child read and asking them questions as they go to help develop their understanding.
Living and Learning – Health & Prevention
In these first two weeks of the term, we have been looking at health and prevention across the phase.
Last week we learnt about different types of germs and discussed the importance of washing our hands with both soap and water. This week we have learnt about dental hygiene and looked at hygiene facts as well as healthy and unhealthy habits.
Help at home by asking us what we can do to look after our personal hygiene.
Scholes in Bloom flower bed competition winner
Larraine came in to our assembly in school on Monday this week. She announced the winner of the competition. It was chosen because of the eye-catching design featuring lovely bright coloured stripes and a love heart. The winning design will be made using flowers in the bed outside the school on Morwick Grove.
Well done to the runners up too.
Y4 Skipping Festival
On Wednesday this week, many of the Y4s participated in a skipping festival held at Leeds Trinity University. They competed against five other schools in different techniques – including individual efforts such as the double bounce and the pretzel – and team efforts such as ‘run in, jump out’. Throughout the afternoon, there were also whole group sessions to try out different skipping exercises to music.
The children represented the school so well, showing a fantastic attitude to their teammates and trying their best, even when the competition was tough! Well done to everyone, you made us proud. 
3,4A Class News
It’s been great to see everyone back at school this week! In Writing, we have started to look at promotion texts and their features, including present tense, questions, commands and alliteration. We will be writing our own promotion about York. This links in with our new Geography topic – Explorers! We have started off by learning about global climate zones and then focusing in on the countries in Europe. Later on in the topic, we will be comparing the two cities of York and Venice.
On the same theme, we have used a non-fiction text about York to practise different reading skills including retrieval, summarising and understanding the meaning of words in context..
In Science, we have been completing our unit on light. We carried out an experiment to see what happened to the size of the shadow when we moved a light source further away from an opaque object.
Help at home by asking us what we discovered! Feel free to quiz us on the terms opaque, translucent and transparent too.
3,4C Class News – Science
This week, we investigated:
How does the distance between an object and a light source affect the size of a shadow?
We made a prediction, carried out the experiment and recorded our findings. We concluded that the shadows decrease in size when the light source is moved further away from the object.
Help at home by encouraging your child to discuss their findings from the experiment.