Welcome to another term in Year 3/4. This term, our curriculum questions is 'What causes a volcano to erupt?'. The children will learn about volcanoes, their locations around the world and a range of information about them including tectonic plates. In history, we are continuing our timeline and moving on to learning about the role of the Romans. The focus here will be on their general role as an empire and more specifically the role of the Romans in Britain. Art and DT will link to this and we hope to make shields and mosaics on those lessons.
Please continue to actively go over times tables with your children. These are so important in the majority of maths areas in Key Stage 2.
We expect that children read at least 3 times a week. Please do contact school if we can help with this in any way.
Attached are:
The curriculum map for the term.
The year 3 and the year 4 KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts) for the Spring Term
Common Exception Words for Year 3 and 4. (These are the words children need to be able to read and spell by the end of year 3 and 4.)
Image Gallery
Documents
This week, we welcomes Open the Book again into school. It was great to see some of the children acting along with the story and, as usual, they made the Easter Story interactive for the audience.
Watch out for the Roman shields.... coming to a home near you this week!
The children have really enjoyed the history and geography topics this year. It has been so helpful to learn about history in a chronological order. After the holiday, we will be linking the end of the Roman era to the Anglo Saxons. Please feel free to do some research at home. We always celebrate and display these sorts of projects in class.
We return back to school on Tuesday 22nd April.
Have a lovely holiday!
Miss Pittas and the Year 3/4 team
Lots to celebrate.
This week, we have learned about the origins of Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in addition to learning about and celebrating our patron saint St Piran on St Piran's Day.
It was lovely to welcome our parents and friends into our class. Together, we joined in with a range of activities linked to St Piran.
With World Book Day coming around once more, don't forget to spend your vouchers. Worth the usual £1 or a special addition WBD book!
Don't forget to also visit the Book Fair in the library before and after school. Plenty of goodies to be had by all.
Photos:
A visit from the Royal Cornwall Show to talk about and discover where our food comes from.
A maths biscuit project to enhance our skills with money and maths.
The Spring Term has well and truly started. Please enjoy 4 photographs that tell the story for these first couple of weeks of 2025.
We have enjoyed a visit from the Dog's Trust, taken part in a Stone Age DT/Forest School project 'living in the stone age' where the children planned and made a stone age meal and used different early caveman survival skills. We have had The Royal Cornwall Show come and deliver a workshop all about where our food comes from. Finally, on Monday 20th January, we went to Kents Cavern to link our history projects from Autumn to Spring Terms.
What a great start to the year. Please do ask your children about the things they have taken part in.
Any questions about the term ahead, please do email.
Miss Pittas
WOW
A big thank you to all families. We have managed to collect such a fantastic array of items for our Christmas Shoebox collections. What a special chance for us to take part in making a difference in our community. Mrs Davies will be taking bags of goodies to the homeless shelter to pass on to those who want and need these items.
Parent Partnership Meetings
Thank you for meeting with us last week. If you have not yet made an appointment to come and have a conversation about your child, please feel free to do this and we will meet at the earliest possible time. If you have any further questions or concerns, please do feel that you can come and ask at any time.
Craft Afternoon.
Please come one and all. Year 3/4 crafter afternoon is next Monday PM. (2.12.24). All are welcome!
Christmas Celebrations
Our Christmas celebration is on Monday 9th December 9.30 for 1 hour. Please come and join us for a sing and watch our contributions.
Miss Pittas
This week, we have been continuing our learning about 'Animals including humans'.
We have been learning about teeth and their function and today, we have completed the second part of a Science experiment where we found out what happens to teeth when they come into contact with different liquids.
Don't forget to ask your children about it so they can say what they learned!
(The white on the egg submerged in milk is white from toothpaste drying, however, the white from the apple juice and the energy drink is due to those sugary liquids and the damaging effects of sugar!)
Cave Paintings
After creating our personalised cave walls last week, we have now mixed natural pigments in our art lessons using leaves and different spices that would have been accessible in the UK during Stone Age times. We applied a range of painting techniques and attempted to add fine details using smaller brushes. It was tough painting on a cave wall; so much bumpier than our smooth paper in school.
This week marks our 40th birthday. We are SO excited to have you come to school on Friday to help us celebrate. Please come from 2.00pm until 5.30pm. There is plenty to take part in and enjoy from a bouncy castle to an ice-cream van, plenty of stalls and games to keep one and all entertained.
Can't wait to see you!
In class we have been busy planning and making our class game... it's a secret until Friday!
Come and join in the fun!
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