Author Event
This afternoon, our school librarians were fortunate enough to attend an author event held at Allerton C of E Primary School. They met author, Dermot O’Leary, who discussed his inspiration and anwered questions.
Phase 3,4 DT – Cooking
This week, the children have been busy making bruschetta. In small groups, they practised cutting tomatoes, garlic and basil using the bridge method and the claw grip.
They discussed the importance of food hygiene and being safe when making food.
Overall, the bruschetta was a success and many children have already tried making it at home for their families.
Here’s the recipe. Why not make this recipe at home?
Phase 3,4 Reading records
Well done to everyone today who has remembered their reading record.
Here are some excellent examples of the reading record activities that have been completed at home.
Help at home by reading with your child regularly and encouraging them to complete the weekly reading challenge.
This week it is: Predict the Future.
Computing Creations
Our topic for this half term is Computing. We’ve been using Scratch to help with our learning.
So far, we’ve learnt…
- what a computer is
- what inputs and outputs are
- what a sprite is
- what a program is
- what logical reasoning is
…and we’ll continue our learning by using sequencing, decomposition and logical reasoning to create programs on Scratch.
Help at home: See which of our vocabulary (below) for this topic your child can remember.
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?
