Week beginning 18th March 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#e59dfa” ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
I can read, write and order decimals.
I can round decimals with two places.
I can multiply and divide decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
I can solve problems with decimals (up to 3 places).
English – We shall be finishing our new topic, Travel Brochures. We will be designing, writing and creating our travel guides.
Science – We shall be finishing our lifecycle unit this week with a plant exaperiment.
Computing – We shall be creating a quiz this week, on Scratch!
Reading – We shall be writing our book review for Room 13, by Robert Swindells. Thanks to the Friends of Howard for our lovely class sets of books so that we can all read along! 
PE – We have swimming on Tuesdays and our PE session on Thursdays.
French – We shall be continuing to look at the weather.
Art – We shall be drawing images from photographs, based on areas around Whitby.
Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.
Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.
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21st & 27th March – Spring term parents’ evening
Week beginning 18th March 2019
This week:
- In maths we will continue adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers using the column method.
- In English we will be planning and writing a letter.
- In Science we will continue our work on famous scientists.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#e9d926″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]In PSHE when we have finished our Apples friends unit on friendship we will begin looking at the NSPCC project ‘PANTS’ [/dropshadowbox]
Wk Beginning 18th March 2019
Our Learning in year four this week:
Literacy
We will be looking at writing persuasive letters focusing on formal language, complex sentences and the structure we have boxed up from the persuasive texts we have looked at together.
Maths
We will be studying non-unit fractions, counting in fractions and recognising 10th and 100ths as decimals.
PE
We will will be studying gymnastics and circuit training.
PHSE
In addition to year four’s CUES-ed focus, we will be focusing on safeguarding children using the NSPCC Let’s talk PANTS initiative . Some useful information can be found here https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/.
Science
We will continue to extend our knowledge of Animals including humans classifying vertebrates using branching databases.
Topic
We will continue our rain forest theme with a focus on the plants which grow in the rain forest and how they can be used.
Dates for the Diary:
Thursday 21st and Wednesday 27th March-Parents’ evening will be held in the hall. Appointments have been sent out. Please let us know if you can’t make an appointment on the day.
congratulations to Armaan, Lillian, Richa, Cynde and Magnus from Southwark and Harry, Aryan, Sofia, James and Kerem who all received merit cards this week.
Week beginning 18th March 2019
New learning
English-We will be starting to look at a new genre of writing-explanation texts and these will be linked to our Science work on The Heart. We will also be continuing to read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Maths-We will be learning how to find the area of triangles and parallelograms
Science-We will be revising the solar system
PE-We will be learning about Boxercise and Pilates
PSHE-We will be starting our work from the NSPCC called Pantasaurus
History-We will be learning about the Blitz
R.E -We will be continuing to study Buddhism
Spanish-We will be looking at playing games in Spanish
Important Information
Thank you to all of the children who created ‘Books in a box’. They were great! It was also exciting to see all of the children who had come into school last week as a book character for World Book Day. I hope you have all managed to exchange your token for a book.
‘Design a Lab coat’ entries need to be in asap. If you haven’t already done so, please complete and hand in to school asap.
The children in Year 6 have a visit from a local PCSO on Thursday 21st March. He will be talking to both classes about stop and searches and how to keep themselves safe.
week beginning 18 March
Literacy
We will be looking at writing explanations.
Maths
We will be studying mean, average and the calculation of the volume of cuboids.
PE
We will will be studying Pilates
PHSE
Will be focusing on safeguarding children using the NSPCC Let’s talk PANTS initiative . Some useful information can be found here https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/.
Science
We will continue to extend our knowledge of Animals including humans .
Spelling Punctuation And Grammar
We are going to focusing on the use of conjunctions
Topic
we will continue our study of rationing in WW2
Week beginning 11th March
Thank you for all of your support with World Book Day. There were some fantastic costumes and books in boxes. You can see a wide selection of these displayed in the school hall!
Writing
The children had so many ideas for their alien booklets that we have only just finished writing them! Therefore, we will be starting our work on the losing tale Monkey Puzzle this week. Please see the blog post from last week for more information!
Maths
This week we are looking at length and height using cm and m. We will be using rulers and metre rules to measure accurately. Children need to understand that a metre is always longer than a cm because it is 100x bigger. They must remember to start measuring at 0. We will be ordering and comparing measurements before moving onto using the four calculations to problem solve with measure. For example Beth has 3 pieces of ribbon which are 30cm long. How long are her pieces of ribbon altogether?
History
We are looking at the Race to Space.
Science
We will be continuing our work on plants.
PE
We are very lucky to Archbishop Tennison students working with us again this half term!
Week Beginning 11th March 2019
What we will be learning
English-We will be finishing off our newspaper report about Romeo and Juliet
Maths-We will be learning how to multiply and divide fractions
Science-We will be learning about animals and their habitat
PE-We will be having a boxercise and Pilates lesson
Music-We will be practising a song which we will be performing in music assembly
PSHE-We will be learning about Pantasaurus form the NSPCC website
History-We will be continuing our work on World War 2
R.E-We will be continuing our work on Buddhism
MFL-We will be linking our Spanish work in to our History work this week
Class Reading-We will be continuing to read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Please purchase a copy if you would like to.
Important Information
World Maths Day-Tuesday 12th March
Monday 11th March, 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#78f0e1″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#534f4e” ]Well done to all the children for their amazing and creative ‘Book in Box’ as well as very imaginative costumes to celebrate World Book Day ![/dropshadowbox]
Dates for you Diary
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f483e7″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#4066f0″ ]Parent Evening – Week Beginning March 18th & March 25th – Please sign up and you will be informed of the timings and dates. Tuesday 26th March – Lambeth Class Parent Assembly in the Main Hall at 9:10 am Tuesday 2nd April – Year 1 Easter Parade in the Year 1 Playground at 3:10 pm. [/dropshadowbox]
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions !
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Jayden– 4460 Points
Vauxhall Class : Isabella– 1530 Points
Gold Award
Lambeth Class : Comella
Silver Award
Vauxhall Class : Isabella
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Nicole, Deyan, Kye, Ryan, Adoma, Charlotte, Shuajb, Isaiah, Ryan, Yaacoob, Ayaan, Amira
Vauxhall Class :Elias, Shun Ming
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#bbf483″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#ef7a26″ ]Our Learning this week…[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f5ed4e” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#194faa” ]Our new context is “It’s Raining ! It’s Pouring!” Please check your child’s homework book for this term’s curriculum overview. It is linked to Geography and children will explore and identify weather patterns in UK as well as learn about location of hot and cold countries in relation to the Equator and North and South Poles. [/dropshadowbox]
English
Children will work with partners to read and identify features of poems like title, poet, rhyming words, stanzas/verses, repetitive words / phrases, onomatopoeic words, They will generate rain words and write and edit their own rain poems.
LINK to Science
Children will be writing and editing a non-chronological report about Animals – based on their diet – Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores.
Maths
We will consolidate arrays and understand division by sharing as well as grouping. We will revisit doubling and halving numbers. Children will explore fractions of shapes.
Doubles of numbers
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=loopcardsv6
Halves of numbers
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=loopcardsv6
Science
Children will continue their learning about classifying animals into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores – Mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, insects
Geography
Children will explore weather patterns by looking at the climate patterns in UK and use atlas to identify the countries in UK.
Art
We will be exploring patterns and creating patterns for umbrellas. Children will explore bubble painting.
P.E
Children will continue their learning by making different body shapes like tuck, pike, straddle, dish, arch etc… and also begin to do different rolls like a log roll, egg role and a teddy roll.
PSHE
Children will discuss why they are special and talk about their talents,
R.E
We will be looking at Christianity and the significance of the church as a place of worship for the Christians.
This week – Home work:– Designing an umbrella.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 13th March, 2019
Please continue …
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonic games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm http://more.starfall.com/?t=253552593&y=1
Week Beginning 11th March
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will begin a new unit of work on addition and subtraction. We will also take part in a carousel of exciting maths based activities to celebrate world maths day.
- In English we will learn about the features of letter writing before writing a letter in role.
- In science we will find out about Albert Einstein.
- In topic time we will plan an eyewitness account on the destruction of Pompeii.
- In RE we will learn about Jesus and Zacchaeus the tax collector.
On Monday we will help to lead a special assembly linked to our Apple’s Friends work in PHSE.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]We had a really special World Book Day on Thursday with some fantastic costumes and great books in boxes.[/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 11th March 2019
This week:
- In maths we will be moving on from statistics and re-visiting our unit on addition and subtraction (adding 1, 10 and 100 to a 3 digit number).
- In English we will finish writing our stories of ‘Escape from Pompeii’ before moving on to look at the features of a letter.
- In science we will continue work on famous scientists.
- In topic time we will plan an eyewitness account on the destruction of Pompeii.
- In RE we will look at why the Bible is a special book for Christians.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f97e7c” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]It is ‘World Maths Day’ this week and on Tuesday afternoon we will being doing a range of different maths activities across the whole of year 3.[/dropshadowbox]