Year 3 & 4 Class News

New topic: Romans and Anglo-Saxons

Posted on Wednesday 05 January 2022 by Mr Catherall

This week, we’ve started our new topic: Romans and Anglo-Saxons.

In this topic, we’ll learn loads about the Romans in Britain. We’ll use our history skills to analyse different sources of information and we’ll learn loads of key information about this period of time. We’ll be continuing our history learning in our reading and writing lessons, too – and our weekly Latin lessons, of course!

Today, we reminded ourselves about chronology and thought about when the Romans came to Britain. This timeline below is one we use in school and shows all the history we learn across school in the order happened (chronological order).

You can help at home by asking your child about their learning. Even better if you this vocabulary when having your discussions.

Christmas fun in the hall

Posted on Thursday 09 December 2021 by Mrs Latham

A massive thank you to Mrs Pennock and all the lunchtime staff who created a fabulous atmosphere for Christmas dinner day today. The children and staff had a lovely time!

Living and Learning – I make healthy choices.

Posted on Wednesday 08 December 2021 by Mr Roundtree

Our Living and Learning statement this week is – I can make healthy choices. Do you know what choices we can make?

In Year 3/4 we know what it means to make healthy choices!

We talked today about what choices we can make to keep us healthy. We asked ourselves these questions:

  • What do we eat?
  • When do we eat?
  • How much sleep do we get?
  • How much exercise do we get?
  • Do we laugh enough?

 

Wake Up Shake Up (WUSU) Club

Posted on Tuesday 07 December 2021 by Mrs Latham

WUSU Club have had a successful series of sessions after school this half term. They have made two new dances for you to enjoy and learn:

Dance Monkey and and Christmas Special, One More Sleep

WUSU club will be continuing after Christmas. Keep an eye out for letters about after school clubs so you can decide if you’d like to join in with any.

Fundraising

Posted on Thursday 25 November 2021 by Mrs Hogarth

A massive thank you to everyone who donated to our recent fundraising events – you were all unbelievably generous. We managed to raise £126.25 for our school charity – Leeds Autism Services. This was following our Odd Sock Day at the start of anti-bullying week. Last Friday we raised money for Children in Need and managed to raise £410.30.

Thank you all so much.

Living and Learning: Anti-Bullying Week

Posted on Friday 19 November 2021 by Mrs Wadsworth

Our Living and Learning Statement this week has been ‘I know how to STOP bullying‘.

On Monday, we started Anti-Bullying Week by wearing odd socks to celebrate how unique we all are.

During our Living and Learning lessons, we have talked about what bullying is and how to stop it.

We have talked about STOP as an acronym which provides us with a clear definition of bullying:

Several Times On Purpose

We have discussed how to STOP bullying by:

Start Telling Other People

The theme of this week has been ‘One Kind Word’. We have talked about how being KIND can make a difference by making other people feel happy.

Digger Day in 3,4C

Posted on Wednesday 17 November 2021 by Mr Roundtree

Last Wednesday, we were extremely lucky to have Flannery Engineers come into our class and talk to our class about construction and the ELOR road development.

They even brought a simulation digger into our classroom. Each child had a chance to use the hi-spec simulation observatory, for either a dumptruck or digger – it was amazing!

Our children were very privileged to have this experience – thank you, Flannery engineers. they talked to us about the development and how they are improving our community.

In the classroom, the children were also challenged to make the longest bridge, tallest tower and strongest bridge out of a single piece of A4 paper.

More photos to come …

 

Odd Socks Day – Anti-bullying week 2021

Posted on Tuesday 16 November 2021 by Mr Roundtree

If you do just one thing today, choose “one kind word”. What could you say?

On Monday, we wore odd socks! This is to start our Anti-Bullying Week which is all about saying One Kind Word.

“It’s to show we’re all the same because we all wear socks but we’re all different because they all have different patterns!”

Here are our odd socks!

Helping Your Child With Reading

Posted on Sunday 07 November 2021 by Mr Roundtree

Helping Your Child With Reading – at home!

As parents, we are the most influential teachers that our
children have. It is down to us to play an important part in
helping our children to improve their reading.
Here are some suggestions to help your child read at home:
• Set aside quiet time every day for reading with no distractions.
10 to 15 minutes a day should be enough. Little and often is
best.
• Make this time enjoyable. Sit together and if your child loses
interest then just talk.
• Do not correct often at all. Let them make mistakes!
• Allow time for children to self correct their own mistakes and
if you do need to correct them, then don’t do this for every
word mispronounced, only occasionally.
• Boost confidence with lots of praise.
• Build up confidence with easier books.
• Discuss what happened in the book, what was said, the
pictures etc. This discussion will lead to good comprehension
skills as well as develop love of books.
• Make up stories with some of the characters. What would they
do here in our home or school?
• Which characters did you like? Why?
• Which characters did you not like? Why?
• Would you like to be able to climb inside the book and visit
the place it is set in?
• Can you draw pictures and write out scenes from the story?
• Could you make a sequel? A prequel?
• Most importantly . . . have fun!!

3/4C Class News

Posted on Friday 05 November 2021 by Mrs Wadsworth

In Living and Learning, we have talked about the importance of being resilient in learning and that sometimes learning is tricky. We have reflected on the times when we have been resilient and have been successful.

We have discussed climate change in related to COP26 by building on and responding to the views of others.

In Art, we have closely observed pattern and shape in fruit, completing some careful drawings.

A great start to a new half term!