Year 3 and 4 Armley Mills School Trip
What an amazing trip to Armley Mills – Year 3 on Thursday and Year 4 on Friday!
We enjoyed the ‘Wonder of Weaving’ workshop and learnt so much from exploring the museum. Have a look at the pictures of the fun we’ve had.
Living and Learning – Staying Safe Week Year 3,4
Staying Safe Week 2024
Wow! What a week!
This week, Year 3 and 4 have had a range of visitors in school to talk to us about how to stay safe in different situations including:
- Hazel from d:side – how to stay safe online
- Alan from RNLI – water safety
- Bella, a nurse – how to stay safe at home
- Darren – first aid
- Mrs Hill from the Dogs Trust – how to be safe around dogs
In addition to this, we have focused lessons on:
- Road safety
- Food safety
- Sun safety
- The importance of being respectful
- Understanding digital footprint
We’ve had an amazing week! Help at home by discussing with your child how they can stay safe in different situations.
Thank you to everyone who donated money to enable us to have these fantastic visitors in school.
Scholes in Bloom
Some children went out to meet the Britain in Bloom judges this week. The winner of the ‘design a flowerbed’ competition came to talk about their design. We also told them about plants we have grown and our beautiful wildlife garden. We hope they were impressed!
Key Stage 2 Sports Day
Friday saw the event of the year that we’d all been waiting for – sports day! All the children turned their hand to a range of competitive races from the sack race to the long distance. The weather was good and even the sun made an appearance. It was so good to see all the children looking happy and healthy and thank you to all the parents, grandparents and carers that came to support us! Thank you also to the crazy people that took part in the adults race – I’m sure you made your children proud!
Class News – PE and Design and Technology
This week, we used a template to cut the correct sized material for our pouch. We used the scissors carefully. Then, we started to sew our pouches. They’re looking great! We showed lots of resilience when threading the needle and stitching. Help at home by practising the running stitch or over stitch.
In PE, we enjoyed practising for KS2 Sports Day.
Spectacular sport roundabout
The sun shone this year and we enjoyed a rather warm sport roundabout yesterday.
Spain were the winners with Ukraine in second place and England third.
We hope you all enjoyed it and thank you to all the families and friends who came to support us.
Class News
In our topic lessons, we have been sewing! We practised running stitch and over stitch. Today, we have designed a pouch with a specific function – to hold money, pencils or cards. We are looking forward to making our pouches next week.
Over the last three weeks in PE, we have had great fun developing our tennis skills. Some of us managed over 100 hits to keep the ball in the air!
Help at home by encouraging your child to practise their times tables and to read regularly! Why not have a game of tennis in the sunshine?
Living & Learning – Health & Relationships Education
This half term, in Living and Learning, we have been learning all about relationships. We have thought about our own network and the different relationships that we have with people in our lives. We focused on on what makes a relationship healthy and what to do if a relationship is making us feel unhappy or uncomfortable. This led on to us learning about friendships and how we can maintain and nurture friendships and solve conflicts amongst ourselves and peers.
The sessions this week have covered the biological terms for the male and female body parts and the lifecycle of humans – developing from babies to children to adults. We also looked closely at information provided by the NSPCC regarding the PANTS rule. 
Help at home: Ask your child if they can recall what the PANTS acronym stands for. What can they recall? Do they have any questions?
Design and technology – running stitch
In Years 3 and 4 we are learning about design and technology this half term, with a focus on sewing. We have been learning about the design process and how a product comes into being, before now moving onto the more practical side of things. We are practising the skill of using a needle and thread first with a binka (a firm piece of fabric with holes in to help beginners learn to sew). We’ve found that this takes some resilience! We’ve done really well though and were able to sew a ‘running stitch’.
Help at home: why not have a go at mending that hole or missing button? 
3,4A Class News
A new half-term means new topics! This week, we have started our DT unit and have been learning about the design process before we go on to design and sew our own products.
In Writing, we are learning about what makes a good instruction text, looking at features such as adverbs and imperative verbs. We will be writing our own recipes to show off these skills.
Help at home by asking your child about their learning. Can they give you an example of an adverb? What job does an adverb do?
In PE, we have started a series of tennis lessons and this week, focused on developing our throwing and catching skills.
In Y3 Maths, we are learning about shape and have started by looking at different types of angles. See below where we identified right angles around the classroom.
