Year 3

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a fantastic Easter. We will begin this half-term by continuing with our ‘Marvellous Creations’ topic before moving on to exploring the Stone age.

A massive thank you to all parents who were able to come along to our Thursday morning reading sessions last term. It has been a pleasure to see so many of you reading with your children, helping develop their love of reading! For the Summer term, we have decided to run the session on the first Thursday of each half term 8.55-9.30 rather than on a weekly basis.

Over the Spring term, both classes had the opportunity to develop their artistic skills by working alongside Miss Lori to  create work related to natural disasters. We were extremely impressed with the outcomes and would love to share them  with you in an Art exhibition which will now take place on Monday 23rd April from 8.55am until 10am. Apologies for the change in date, this is due to the author from world book week coming to visit on Friday.

Topic

We will begin this term by continuing to look at famous Inventors and their inventions. We will carry out research to create leaflets about the history of different inventors and explore the importance of certain inventions across the world.

Literacy

In Literacy, we will begin by identifying the features of a formal explanation letter before composing our own letters which will inform companies about a specific invention we have tested. We will then use the ‘Iron man’, our class text, to support us in planning and writing our very own science fiction stories!

Maths

Year 3 will be covering:

• Money – adding and subtracting amount of money.
• Statistics – creating pictograms, bar charts and tables to record data.
• Length – measuring and comparing lengths using mm, cm and m. Calculating perimeter.

Year 4 will be covering:

• Area of shapes
• Comparing area
• Equivalent fractions
• Fractions greater than 1
• Counting in fractions
• Adding and Subtracting fractions
• Finding fractions of quantities

Both classes will have regular opportunities to apply these skills through reasoning and real-life problem solving activities.

Science

This half term year 3 will be focusing on Forces and magnets.

• compare how things move on different surfaces and notice that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance.
• observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others.
• compare and group together a variety of everyday materials based on whether they are attracted to a magnet and identify some magnetic materials.
• describe magnets as having 2 poles and predict whether 2 magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing.

This half term, Year 4’s topic for Science is Sound. Children will explore how sounds are made and how they travel to the ear. They will find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it and recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

Kind Regards, Miss Campy and Miss Robinson