FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE
Welcome to Class 3
Codename: The Nightingales
Class Teacher: Mrs V Curtin, BSc (Hons), PGCE
Classroom Assistant: Miss S Hill
“Now you are a Junior you will be able to change your reading book when you finish it and then ask Miss Hill to add it to your homework diary. Every Monday and Friday, Miss Hill will check your homework diaries to see how well you are doing with your reading.
Where will you get to on our reading chart by the end of the school year? Who will receive a Platinum reading award for reading 100 books?”
Maths
Number, place value & sequences (round up to 9999 to nearest 10, 100, 1000, compare, order, roman numerals up to 100, count in steps of 4, 8, 25, 50, 100) Mental & Written addition and subtraction (compact & expanded addition & subtraction up to 4-digit numbers)
Mental & Written multiplication and division (x 3 numbers together, use commutativity, division with remainders) Measures, data & co-ordinates (ml, l, perimeter, co-ordinates in 1st quad, area by counting squares)
Fractions & decimals (unit & non-unit fraction of number, equivalent fraction with denominator up to 12, decimal equivalents for 1/10, 1⁄2, 1⁄4, 1/5, + & – fractions with same denominator, x & ÷ 10, 100, equivalent 1/100s and 0.01s, 1/10s and 0.1s, compare and order (2dp), + & – multiples of 0.1/0.01)
Shape & angles (symmetry, acute & obtuse angles, quadrilaterals, triangles) Time & data (24 hr clock, read, interpret & describe line graph)
English
This term in English, we will be looking at the following texts:
Adventure Stories: The Hodgeheg-Dick King-Smith
Plays & Dialogues: Proverbs Animated Tale, The Witches – Roald Dahl
Persuasive Writing: Advertisements in magazines & on TV
Non-Chronological Reports: Computer Games
Traditional Poems: E. Farjeon & C. Causley
Shape Poems
PE
Mrs McCaffrey we will teaching PE. We will need our white T-shirts, red PE shorts and plimsolls. Outdoor PE will take place with Mrs Curtin and is Games. We will need our white T-shirts, red shorts, trainers or plimsolls. As the weather turns colder, school jumpers and tracksuit bottoms can be worn.
Science
Living Things and Their Habitats (Yr4)
Recognise that living things can be grouped in variety of ways
Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment
Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things
RE
In RE, we will be learning –
Islam
Muhammad, 99 names of Allah, Qur’an, Islamic Calligraphy and patterns
Christianity- Pentecost
Gifting
Creative Learning
Creative Learning this term is combining skills from History, Geography, Art & Design, Technology, ICT and Dance and covering the following topics:
Ancient Egypt
Mrs Couchman will be teaching us French and Mr Spooner, computing.
Spelling test – Thursday 25th May
Revision of Year 2 Spellings
| other | want |
| mother | watch |
| brother | wander |
| nothing | quantity |
| Monday | squash |
| key | word |
| donkey | work |
| monkey | worm |
| chimney | world |
| valley | worth |
Year 3/4 Spellings
| continue | interest |
| decide | island |
| describe | possession |
| different | possible |
| difficult | potatoes |
| disappear | pressure |
| history | probably |
| imagine | promise |
| increase | weight |
| important | woman |
Spelling Revision Words
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Curriculum Overview
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