Green Class' teacher is Mrs Harris
🌟 Autumn Term 1 🌟
A very warm welcome to Year 3 and 4!
We hope you have all had a wonderful summer break and are ready for an exciting new school year. We are really looking forward to welcoming the children into Years 3 and 4, getting settled into our new routines and beginning our learning together. There is lots to look forward to this half term, and we are excited to see the children grow in confidence, independence and curiosity.
Our Learning This Half Term - Autumn Term 1 – Volcanoes! 🌋
In English, we will use The Firework-Maker’s Daughter and Escape from Pompeii alongside eruption videos, diagrams and satellite images to inspire our writing.
The children will develop their writing skills through a range of genres, including:
🌋 Setting description, 📰 Newspaper report,❓ Explanation text, ✍️ Poetry.
We will continue to build confidence with vocabulary, sentence structure, punctuation and organising writing effectively for different purposes.
Across the curriculum, we will also be busy:
🔬 Science – Energy: Light and Shadows – Exploring light, how we see, reflection and how shadows are created and changed.
🌍 Geography – Why do people live near volcanoes? – Discovering where volcanoes are found, how they are formed and why people choose to live close to them.
✝️ RE – How do people welcome new life into the world? – Exploring how different religions and worldviews celebrate and welcome new life.
❤️ PSHE – Learning about Growing, including our Learning Out of Windows and Grief work. We will also take part in Mental Wellbeing Week and explore the British Value of Mutual Respect, alongside the protected characteristics of Disability and Religion or Belief.
🎨 Art – Drawing – Developing our drawing skills through exploring different techniques and ways of creating texture, tone and detail.
🎵 Music – Mamma Mia – Developing our listening, singing and performing skills through our Year 4 music unit.
💻 Computing – Computing Systems and Networks – Exploring computers, how they are connected and the different parts of a computing system.
⚽ PE – Developing our skills through dribbling, intercepting and attacking, alongside invasion games with JB Sport.
🔤 Phonics & Reading
Children will bring home a reading book and school planner. Please encourage your child to read regularly at home and record their reading in their planner.
Re-reading, discussing unfamiliar vocabulary, talking about characters and events and making predictions are all valuable ways of developing fluency and comprehension.
📚 We will also enjoy First Chapter Friday, where we will discover a range of new books and authors and hopefully find some new favourites along the way!
🔢 Maths
This half term, both year groups will begin by developing their understanding of place value, before moving on to addition and subtraction.
🟦 Year 3 will be:
🟩 Year 4 will be:
At home, regular practice of number facts and times tables will really help children to build their confidence and fluency. Little and often makes a big difference!
⚽ PE Days – Monday and Thursday
Our PE days will be Monday and Thursday, with our JB Sports session taking place on Thursday.
Please send your child to school wearing their PE kit on PE days and make sure that all items, including shoes and jumpers, are clearly named.
🏡 How You Can Help at Home
Regular reading makes a huge difference, so please encourage your child to read as often as possible.
You can also support learning through practising times tables and number facts, supporting your child with spellings, talking about what they have been learning at school and encouraging increasing independence with their belongings and routines. Please ensure that all clothing, shoes, PE kit, water bottles and belongings are clearly named.
Diary Dates
🚴 3rd September – We will be watching the Tour of Britain as it comes through Mareham.
🌾 6th October – 9:00am – Harvest Community Worship in Church.
📸 9th October – Individual school photographs.
💉 13th October – Flu immunisations.
🍂 23rd October – Last day of Autumn Term 1.
🌟 2nd November – Start of Autumn Term 2.
We are really looking forward to a fantastic first half term in Year 3 and 4 and seeing how much the children learn, grow and achieve.
If you have any questions, queries or concerns at any point, please speak to us or give the school a call. We are always happy to help and look forward to working closely with you throughout the year.
Here’s to a fantastic first half term! 🌟
Mrs Harris(Class Teacher)
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