3/4A Topic
Topic (History): Ancient Greece
As part of our learning about Ancient Greece, we had a debate about which was the best city state: Athens or Sparta. We discussed good techniques for a debate such as projecting our voices, giving evidence and listening respectfully to other people’s opinions.
3/4C Science
Science: Living things and their habitats.
We’ve been doing some fantastic learning in Science all about classifying data and how to use classification keys.
Over the past couple of weeks, the children have built up their classifying skills by asking and answering questions about what living things look like, and other features they may have, e.g., how many legs? does it have wings? how many parts in its body?
Today, the questions asked were linked to whether or not the animals were invertebrate or vertebrate. Watch this video to help.
Ask your child the difference between these animals.
Living and Learning: Rights and responsibilites
We have been learning that we have the right to learn but a responsibility to be great learners. Here is a list of top tips we came up with to be great learners:
- be in class on time
- be prepared for all lessons
- take good care of school property
- complete spelling, reading and talk time homework
- be ready
- respect ourselves and others
- listen and react well
- doing our best – every day!
We’re very proud of the effort the children are putting in to their learning this week.
Here’s a run down of our great learning:
Maths: Place Value – tens and ones, hundreds and thousands.
Writing: Must-dos and handwriting (capital letters, full stops and conjunctions)
Spelling: ay, a-e, eigh, ai sound (favourite, great, straight, wait, everyday, famous)
Topic: Ancient Greeks (we read Theseus and the Minotaur for our myth)
Science: Living things and their habitats
PE: accurate passing and moving into a space.
Living and Learning: how to be a good learner – why not ask your child their 8Rs for learning?
Here are a few pictures of our Wake Up Shake Up today where the children put lots of effort into their funky dance moves.
A great start to the school year!
We are so proud of how 3,4 have settled/resettled back into their classes. There has been a lovely buzz within the classrooms as the children have been getting to know their new teacher/s and classmates. Here’s to a wonderful term!
Reading: Book club in 3.4
Welcome to Autumn term!
We’ve quickly got into the swing of things and are ready to go with our home reading.
As you know, building a love of reading in your child by reading aloud at home strengthens their language, vocabulary and comprehension skills, and improves their social skills and confidence as you listen to them read.
You’ll have noticed Reading Records and reading books coming home in school bags, and/or assigned an ebook. Please get in touch with your child’s class teacher if this isn’t the case.
At Scholes, children are required to read at home every day for 15 minutes. We ask that a reading activity is completed at home just once a week, brought into school on their Book Club days and signed by parents. The children will be directed which activity to complete each week.
Book club days:
3/4A – Wednesday
3/4B – Wednesday
3/4C – Thursday
- Make a special reading spot.
- Let reading be a special part of every day.
- Ask questions. As you read together, ask questions about the book to build comprehension skills.
- Make time for mistakes.
- Re-read favourite books.
- Read for fun.
Welcome Back!
Hello and welcome back!
Where has the summer gone? Whatever you’ve been up to, we hope you’ve had a brilliant time!
On Tuesday, we return to school. Here’s some key information that you may need.
What should my child wear to school?
You can look on our school website for our school uniform and PE kit policy. We typically have spare, clean items of uniform, including PE kit, for children to change into if they’re not wearing the items set out in this policy.
Your child should wear PE kit on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
What does my child need to bring into school?
Children should bring a bag to school everyday. In the first week, they will have the opportunity to take a library book home and a book chosen by their class teacher.
Children should also have a filled water bottle (only water please) and perhaps a sun hat and sun cream if it’s a sunny day.
School will provide all the stationery. Children should not bring their own equipment. They will be asked to keep it at home. I hope you’ll understand that this will help to reduce any issues that this might cause in school.
Who are the key adults in Y3,4?
3,4A – Mrs Patterson & Mr Goodwin
3,4B – Mr Catherall, Mrs Wilkins & Mrs Thorn
3,4C – Mrs Wadsworth, Mrs McCormick & Mrs Kirby
We’re all looking forward to another successful year! In the meantime, if you have any questions, please get in touch.
Year 3,4 Team
WUSU Crew 2022
Scholes in Bloom – winning design
A group of children went out to meet the Britain in Bloom judges today. The winning designer of the Scholes in Bloom competition was there and everyone admired the planted design in the flowerbed outside school. It looks fabulous!
Living and Learning: how smoking affects our body
Our visitor today was Dave from D:side who talked to us about the harmful affects of smoking on our bodies.
Dave was a very informative speaker with lots of lovely resources for us to see and get involved with. We had lots of questions for Dave!
The children learned about what a cigarette was made from …
What’s inside?
The tar from cigarettes sticks to your lungs …
Some other chemicals that are inside cigarettes. Did you know that there are over 3000 …
The importance of keeping our lungs healthy (where they are in our body)
We must keep our heart healthy too …
How to say no …
You can always walk away from peer pressure …
Stand up to someone who tries to make you smoke a cigarette!
Why not ask your child about our D:side visit today?
Muscles working together
Today, we’ve been learning all about muscles.
Background: Muscles can pull bones, but they can’t push them back to the original position. So they work in pairs of flexors and extensors. The flexor contracts to bend a limb at a joint. Then, when the movement is completed, the flexor relaxes and the extensor contracts to extend or straighten the limb at the same joint.
We made some videos about the movement that happens and the muscles that work. Check them out below:
Why not follow this bbc bitesize link for further practice with your child.