Y4 Skipping Festival
Last week, some of our Y4s took part at a skipping festival in Leeds against 5 other schools!
The children represented our school magnificently and had a great afternoon. Lots of medals were won and lots of children showed resilience by overcoming fears of skipping in front of hundreds of people, too!
Well done.
Art Skills – Exploring tone in observational drawing
This week, during our art skills lesson, we focused on developing our observational drawing skills with a particular emphasis on using tone to create depth and form. Taking advantage of the sunshine, we moved our lesson outdoors where the children took the opportunity to draw from real-life surroundings.
Working outside allowed the children to engage more closely with natural light, shadow and texture.
Help at Home: Encourage your child to notice light and shadows as well as different textures and patterns around them. Talking about what they can see will help build their observation skills.
New Class Novel!
In 3,4, we’ve kicked off the summer term by reading the first chapter of our new class novel…
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo.
Help at home: Ask your child to summarise the story so far!
Year 3, 4 Production
This week, the rehearsals for the Year 3,4 production ‘Shakespeare Rocks’ have started.
The children have been working hard to project their voices, learn their lines, sing the songs and practise their acting. We are really impressed so far.
Please continue to help your child at home to learn their lines and/or the song lyrics. Well done for the hard work so far!
Team 3,4
World Book Day
Today, we’ve celebrated World Book Day. The children have dressed as a character from their favourite book – the costumes are fabulous! Well done, everyone.
We’ve celebrated reading by:
– sharing our favourite books
– listening to the class novel
– listening to stories and extracts read by different members of staff in assembly
– taking part in the BBC Live Assembly
– reading and sharing books with KS1 children
– completing a range of reading-based activities
Help at home by visiting the authorfy website and discovering a new author. Remember that it is free for everyone to use this year!
Year 3,4 Maths – subtraction
This week, the children have been learning how to use the column method for subtraction.
We have talked through the method and practised a lot. The children are starting to feel really confident.
Help at home by practising this method. Keep using NumBots to secure the number facts as this will help when working with larger numbers.
Computing
In Topic this half term, children will be learning about Computing.
Here is the vocabulary we will learn!
In our first lesson, we learnt about algorithms.
An algorithm is a set of instructions.
We created our own algorithms to get from the start to the finish of a simple offline game.
Living and Learning: Safer Internet Day
Last half term, we had a day off timetable as it was Safer Internet Day!
We learnt about two key objectives…
- How to keep personal information safe online
- About misinformation and disinformation
Misinformation is sharing false information online by mistake.
Disinformation is sharing false information online on purpose.
We also had visits from D:side to talk to us about online safety, too!
Book Club
Enjoy seeing some of our 3,4A learners enjoying their favourite books in today’s book club…
Help at home: Ensure your child reads daily for around ten minutes and completes their reading record task ready for Friday’s book club!
Year 3/4 – PE
This week, we’ve enjoyed taking part in yoga which is excellent for both physical and mental health. It helps to develop strength and flexibility. We enjoyed trying the following poses:
- warrior one
- warrior two
- triangle
- tree
Why not try some yoga at home?
