Year 3 & 4 Class News

PE – basketball skills

Posted on Friday 27 January 2023 by Mr Roundtree

This half term in PE we are focussing on attacking skills.

Here’s what we’ve been learning:

Attack is offense in Basketball. On offense, there are many different tools available to your team. The goal of the attack is to break through the opponent’s defence and set up an uncontested shot. For this you will need strong fundamentals: dribbling, passing and shooting.

3,4B: we are geographers!

Posted on Monday 23 January 2023 by Mr Catherall

This half-term, we’ve been geographers. Specifically, we’ve been learning about volcanoes. We’ve studied plate tectonics and learnt how volcanoes are formed. We’ve investigated where they are and thought about whether volcanoes are a good or bad thing – the answer isn’t as obvious as it seems.

In particular, we’ve studied two volcanic eruptions in detail: Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 (which you might remember) and Mt Vesuvius in 79AD (which you probably don’t remember – although I’m regularly told how old parents are).

We learnt about the negative aspects of volcanic eruptions: the disruption to travel, the destroying of infrastructure and the loss of life. And, we learnt about the positive aspects of volcanoes: geothermal energy, rich soil for farming and tourism.

Help at home by…

  • asking your child about their learning
  • researching volcanoes at home
  • looking for articles or books about volcanoes
  • using Google Earth to look at some volcanoes

A little challenge, can your child…

  • tell you some information about the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010
  • tell you some information about the eruption of Vesuvius in 79AD
  • explain some of the positive and negative aspects of volcanoes
  • tell you where some volcanoes are

A little extra challenge..

  • Can your child tell you more about the word volcano and what it means (a clue: it’s Latin!)

3,4 A Class News

Posted on Saturday 21 January 2023 by Mrs Paterson

It’s been another busy week at Scholes!

In Writing, we wrote up our recounts about a volcanic eruption and the children used some fantastic vocabulary, including some lovely fronted adverbials.

In Maths, we’ve been working on multiplication.  Year 4 have been using column multiplication to multiply 3 digit numbers and Year 3 have been partitioning to multiply 2 digit ones, moving onto using the formal method in Week 4.

In Reading, we’ve continued to work on a variety of different skills, including retrieval, inference and choice. It was also great to see some fantastic reading record activities in Book Club on Wednesday.

In Topic, we’ve been learning about how volcanoes are formed and the impact they can have, both positive and negative.

That’s not to mention some really thoughtful contributions in Living and Learning (please see the previous class news post for more detail, the picture below shows everyone working away on their posters), some great ball skills in P.E and some super work on classifying rocks in Science!

Well done 3,4 A on another successful week. I also wanted to say a big well done to all the children who learnt and recited the poem sent home earlier in the term – Catch a Little Rhyme. There were so many who gave it a go!

Please help at home by reading regularly with your child, helping them to practise their spellings and ensuring they continue to practise their times tables on Times Tables Rockstars (in particular, x8 for Year 3 and x9 for Year 4). Thank you for all that you do, your support makes a big difference.Living and Learning lesson activity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Living and Learning – Being Safe

Posted on Saturday 21 January 2023 by Mrs Paterson

Our theme in Living and Learning for Weeks 3 and 4 of term is being safe.

In Week 3, we thought about what makes a happy and healthy home. Our objective was to recognise features of a healthy family life and to know when and how to ask for help. We wrote some of these ideas down to create posters.

The children made some great contributions about what things make for a happy home, including having the things you need, feeling comfortable and having someone to care for you.

Help at home by talking more about these themes with your child, encouraging them to share their feelings and emotions and discussing safety at home. 

In Week 4, we’ll be talking about the NSPCC and their Speak Out. Stay Safe. programme.

 

Living and Learning: I know what a drug is

Posted on Thursday 05 January 2023 by Mr Roundtree

We start the new year with drug education.

  • I know what a drug is.
  • I know that some drugs are harmful.

This week,  we focus on the reasons why we use household products and medicines and the importance of using them safely. Our pupil explore a range of medicine labels and instructions and assess risk in different situations. They identify how to minimise/prevent further risk to help prevent accidents from occurring.

chemical products

Even young children can begin to develop an understanding of drugs.

Talk to your child about medicines – they’re helpful drugs, but only when used by the right people in the right way. Older children can develop this understanding in terms of other drugs like alcohol – talk about age restrictions and drinking in moderation.

In today’s lesson, we looked at empty medicine packaging with partners. The aim was to find the all the information someone would need before taking the medicine, and how they were labelled. 

 

Living and Learning – Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco

Posted on Thursday 05 January 2023 by Mrs Paterson

This week in Living and Learning across Years 3 and 4, we have been talking about medicines and how they can help us. We have also talked about the risks and what we can do to reduce the risks, including the importance of following the instructions of a doctor and our adult at home.

Help at home by discussing with your child further how we can be safe with chemicals in our home, whether it relates to medicines, cleaning products or toiletries for example. chemical products

3,4B: Our New Class Novel!

Posted on Thursday 05 January 2023 by Mr Catherall

Happy New Year everyone and welcome back.

We’ve had a super first week so far in 3,4B and we can’t wait for the rest of the year.

Our new class novel is ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter‘. We’ll be reading this every day in class and enjoying hearing about Lila’s awesome adventure as she attempts to find the final secret in her quest to become a real firework maker.

Help at home by…

  • asking your child what’s happened in the novel recently
  • asking your child what they are enjoying about the book (note that this is a subtly different question to ‘Are you enjoying the book?’ where ‘No’ would be a perfectly suitable, but not that useful, answer).
  • asking you child to summarise what’s happened in the book so far

Enjoying a class novel is one aspect of our reading diet in school. We know how important reading is for academic and life success so we place a huge emphasis on it. That’s why we expect you to be reading regularly at home with your child: it’s crucial! 

If you’re having problems getting your child to read at home, please let us know and we’ll do our best to help.

Here’s to a great (reading-full) 2023!

Happy Christmas Everyone!

Posted on Friday 16 December 2022 by Mrs Wilkins

The whole of 3,4 had a ball at our Christmas party! We’re sure that you’ve heard all about it by now. There was such an atmosphere of fun! 3,4 have got some serious dance moves and singing voices.

Well done to all children in 3,4, they have worked their socks off this term and we are proud of their efforts! We’d like to wish you all a safe and Happy Christmas!

Just a few photos of everyone (to give you a sense of the fun) and the after party for 3,4 B.

See you in the New Year.

Thank you!

Posted on Sunday 11 December 2022 by Mrs Hogarth

We have been absolutely overwhelmed by your generosity. At the recent Christmas productions, we collected for our school charity, Cancer Research UK. You didn’t let us down and you managed to raise an amazing £266.91.

Thank you so much.

3,4 A Class News

Posted on Friday 09 December 2022 by Mrs Paterson

In Writing this week, we’ve continued looking at features of a promotion such as alliteration, questions and commands.  We’ve started to plan our own around the artwork we’ve been creating in Topic and will be writing these next week.

In Science, we’ve continued our learning about sound and today enjoyed a talk from a sound technician who works in theatres. The children listened really well and had lots of good questions for him.

We’ve also been looking at some more different styles of architecture and in particular, focusing on the architect Zaha Hadid who designed one of the stadiums in the current Men’s World Cup. Many of us are very excited about the football! Well done 3,4 A on all your super learning this week.