3,4 B Class News
This week has been a very busy week of rehearsals for our phase production. The children have worked really hard on the songs and lines and it is certainly coming together! Your child should have either a script or song lyrics to take home with them – it would be greatly appreciated if you could help them to practice their parts/the songs at home.
As well as rehearsals, we have been working hard in lessons have completed a brilliant narrative based on a short clip called, ‘The Dragon Slayer’. Please ask us about this at home! We have also thoroughly enjoyed our learning in computing – creating our own ‘unplugged’ games and then exploring writing programs on Scratch Jnr.
We continue to work hard on our times tables and are ‘going for gold’ with our times table facts – recalling them at speed and practicing the ones we are less sure of.
Help at home by continuing to help your child access TTRS and asking them to read regularly to you. Thank you for your continued support.
Have a lovely weekend!
3,4A Class News
This week has looked a little different as we started rehearsing for our phase production, learning the songs and who says which bits from the script! Alongside this, we have been working hard across the curriculum and a highlight has been the fantastic narratives the class have written over the last few days about ‘The Dragon Slayer’. Please ask us about this at home! We have also enjoyed our learning about computing and creating our own ‘unplugged’ games, writing code for a sprite to follow.
For Word Book Day, we were treated to a show of our own – The Secret Garden. The children were a brilliant audience and seemed to thoroughly enjoy themselves.
We continue to focus on our times tables and are ‘going for gold’ with our times table facts, recalling them at speed.
Help at home by continuing to help your child access TT Rockstars and read regularly to you. Thank you for your continued support.
3,4C Class News
This week, we have enjoyed starting out new computing topic. We have created algorithms for off line games. Next week, we will be designing our own games and writing algorithms to solve them.
We have successfully completed the ‘Sponsored Times Table Challenge’ on Wednesday to raise money for the PTA and our school charity, Children’s Heart Surgery Fund. The scores were amazing; the children did a great job maintaining or improving their own personal score. Thank you to everyone who has raised some money so far!
Exciting news… we have started to learn the songs for our Spring production. Next week, we will start to look at the scripts and rehearse.
Help at home by continuing to help your child read regularly and access TTRS and/or Numbots.
Have a great weekend.
Living and Learning – Internet Safety and harms
On Tuesday this week it was ‘Safter Internet Day’. This special celebration, which takes place in February of each year, aims to raise awareness of a safer and better internet for all, especially for children and young people.
We spent the morning off timetable learning about all of the different ways we can stay safe online and what to do/who to speak to if anything we see, hear or receive online makes us feel uncomfortable.
We looked at:
- the risks of online relationships with strangers
- understanding that everything you see online is not true
- the importance of keeping personal information (such as full name/address/school) private
- ensuring a balance of online and offline
The children engaged really well during these sessions and had lots of great ideas about how to stay safe online.
Living and Learning – Being Safe
In Living and Learning this week, each class teacher has delivered the NSPCC Speak Out Stay Safe assembly which aims to help children understand their rights, what is okay and not okay and what they can do if they are ever worried or scared.
We have discussed that:
- every child has the right to speak out and stay safe
- making a child feel sad, scared or worried is never okay and is not the child’s fault
- if they are ever worried, they know who to talk to so they can get help
- whatever their worry, they can always call Childline on 0800 1111 or visit childline.org.uk/kids
3,4C Class News
Well done to 3,4C! Another fabulous week of learning. We all had great fun visiting Yorkshire Museum on Wednesday.
We explored the Roman exhibition and saw Roman artefacts, walked on a mosaic and some of us dressed up as a Roman. In the Jurassic exhibition, we were amazed to see the huge collection of fossils.
Before getting on the coach, we were lucky enough to see the flood gates in action along the River Ouse, protecting the local residents’ homes from flooding. This experience will help our understanding of flood defences in our geography topic after Easter.
Today, we got to try out the new adventure playground at break time! It was great fun.
3,4 C Class News
This week, we have had an informative visit from Hazel at d:side about the dangers of smoking.
In History, we have learned about when the Romans invaded Britain and why they invaded. Challenge your child to explain why.
In Reading, we have completed some drama to explore the feelings of different characters, after reading an extract taken from Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach.
Help at home by regularly reading and supporting your child to access Numbots and TT Rock Stars.
Living and Learning – Drugs, alcohol and tobacco
Across all classes in Year 3,4, we have been learning about drugs, alcohol and tobacco. The definition we have learnt is that a drug is a substance that changes the way the body or mind works.
We had a visit from local charity D:Side where we learnt about the dangers of smoking and a huge variety of facts. These included there being 4000 chemicals in a cigarette. The children listened really well and made some thoughtful contributions.
Help at home by asking your child which facts they can remember. 
3,4 C Class News
What a great first week back!
The children have started to learn about the Romans and Anglo Saxons in our new history topic. Using a timeline, they have located when the Romans invaded Britain. The children have learned about what life was like in Britain before the Romans invaded.
In Science, the children enjoyed learning about fossils and shared facts in our class discussion.
Well done to everyone who remembered their reading book and reading record today.
Help at home by continuing to read regularly with your child and regularly using Numbots/TTRS.
Living and Learning – Mental Wellbeing
We are focusing on mental wellbeing in Living and Learning across all three classes at the moment. This week’s theme has been about knowing some simple self-care techniques we can use to help ourselves feel good. In the classroom, in circle time and in assemblies, we have discussed different strategies to help us feel calm such as breathing exercises, spending time with people we love, telling someone else how we’re feeling and getting some fresh air and exercise.
Help at home by asking your child how they can look after and calm themselves, particularly if they are feeling angry or sad.