Living and Learning – Friends and Family

Celebrating friendships and family in Year 3/4

This week, we’ve been focusing on the Living and Learning statement: “I recognise that friends and family are important.” We’ve had thoughtful discussions about what makes friendships special and why family support is so valuable.

Through discussion, we have shared examples of times when our friends and family have helped us and talked about ways we can do the same for others.

It has been wonderful to see the children reflect on the positive relationships in their lives and think about how they can continue to build strong friendships.

Help at home: Ask your child what is a happy and healthy relationship.

World Book Day – shared reading with 1,2B and 3,4C

We had a lovely time yesterday afternoon sharing books with children from different classes. 3,4C visited 1,2B and we partnered up to read to each other. There were lots of lovely conversations and some new friendships made whilst reading together.

Year 3,4 Class News – World Book Day

World Book Day  06.02.25

Yesterday, we enjoyed celebrating World Book Day by:

• reading extracts of our favourite books
• sharing books with each other
• designing a new book cover for our favourite books
• reading and sharing stories and books with Mrs Latham’s class
• joining in the BBC World Book Day assembly
• listening to our class novel ‘The boy at the back of the class’

Well done to everyone who has completed their reading record challenge at home this week! Help at home by continuing to read with your child regularly.

School Trip to Magna!

  

Living and Learning: Being Safe

Over the last two weeks, Year 3 and 4 have been learning all about staying safe in our Living and Learning sessions.

In the first of our two sessions, we learnt about how to assess our own risks and personal boundaries. We learnt to explain what is meant by ‘personal space’ and ‘personal boundaries’ and why these are important. We moved on to describe how boundaries might be different for different people or in different relationships e.g. with friends, family, at school or online. Finally, we identified what might make someone feel uncomfortable and what they could do or who they could go to for help and support.

In the second of our two sessions, we watched the NSPCC Speak Out, Stay Safe Assembly and discussed how we can seek help. We talked about the different reasons why we might need to seek help and who we can talk to. This could be…
– a parent
– an adult at home
– your teacher
– a member of staff at school
– a grandparent or auntie and uncle
– Childline

Well done, Year 3 and 4!

3,4 Class News – Reading

This week, we have been reading the picture book, ‘Escape from Pompeii’ by Christina Balit. Our skills focus has been inference –  exploring character feeling. Through a hot-seating activity the children were able to take on the role of the characters in the story and answer questions asked by other children.

Help at home by trying this idea. Which questions could you ask to explore how a character is feeling or why they are acting in a certain way?

Magnificent Maths!

Since the start of this term, Y3 and Y4 have been learning Maths together with their usual class teacher.

So far, this has gone really well and the Y4s have been great at furthering their learning and the Y3s have really benefitted from having supportive peers whilst learning to help push them further.

This half term, we’ve been learning about:
– measure (mm, cm, m and km)
– perimeter (of squares, rectangles and polygons)
– multiplication and scaling facts (I know that 5×4=20. So, I also know that 5×40=200)

Help at home: test your child’s knowledge of the areas of Maths we’ve covered so far. Can they tell you what perimeter is? Can they answer some scaled multiplication questions?

Help at home (part 2): Ensure your child goes on TTRS for at least 5 minutes per day in order to help improve their rapid recall of their multiplication facts. This will massively help with all areas of maths in Y3 and 4 and beyond! Plus, it’s awesome to win the inflatable guitar in assembly each week!

Mr Wain, Mrs Wadsworth and Miss Gilliland

Living and Learning – Year 3,4

Our Living and Learning statements over the last couple of weeks have been:

I know what a drug is.

I know that some drugs can be harmful.

We have discussed:

• definition of a drug: a substance that changes the way the mind or body works
• how to use medicines safely
• how household chemicals and products can be used and stored safely
• that adults, over the age of 18, may decide to smoke, vape or drink alcohol
• some of the risks associated with smoking, vaping and drinking alcohol
• who to talk to if children were ever concerned about any of the above points – children know they can talk to trusted adults in school or contact other means of help such as Childline.

Reading- Inference Skills!

This week in reading we’ve been using our inference skills to answer questions about our new class novel, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.

Inference is a reading skill that is all about looking for hints! The text might not tell us the exact answer but we can read around the words.

We started to explore the first chapter and discuss what we know and what we think about the characters so far.

We played a classroom classic called hot seating! This is where we step into the characters shoes and we ask them questions. We paused at a part in our class novel and inferred what each character was thinking and feeling.

Our success criteria for inference is:

• What do we know?

• What does it make you think?

• What can you infer?

Help at home: read with your child regulary at home. Pause to ask inference questions (What do we know? What does it make you think? What can you infer?) You could even play a game of hot seating!

Mathematics

In maths, we’ve been exploring units of measure and learning how to convert between them. We know how to change millimetres (mm) into centimetres (cm), centimetres (cm) into metres (m), and even metres (m) into kilometres (km). This helps us understand how different measurements connect and makes it easier to solve problems involving length and distance.

Help at home: can you come up with your own true or false questions? You could even measure things around your home and convert them into different units!