Team DERWENT & dOVE & Foss (YEAR 3 & Year 4)

Good afternoon,

This week we wrote our second disaster story about an avalanche, using inverted commas for speech. In Geography, we looked at where natural disasters happen across the world, using symbols and a key to show these on a world map. In Science, we learnt about changes of states.

Curriculum: We will be looking at why volcanoes happen using 4 figure grid references to help us locate the volcanoes in the world. 

English: This week we will be writing another disaster story, using a variation of sentence openers. 

Maths: We are continuing our new multiplication and division unit. This week we will focus on factors and how to represent them in different ways. 

Year 3 PE: Children need to come dressed in PE kit on Wednesday & Friday. Children need to wear a pair of plain black or navy blue jogging bottoms or shorts, a plain white t-shirt and a plain black or navy blue hoodie. Children need to wear suitable shoes for PE (trainers or plimsolls).  

Year 4 PE: The children are going swimming on Wednesday. Please can your child come to school in their school uniform and bring their swimming kit in a named bag. They have PE on Fridays and need to come to school dressed in their PE kit. 

Year 3 PSHE: We are continuing our topic ‘Healthy Me’ focusing on are all drugs good drugs.

Year 4 PSHE: We are continuing our topic ‘Healthy Me’ focusing on smoking and vaping. 

Homework is set on a Friday and is due in the following Friday. 

Reading: The children will be expected to read a minimum of 3 times a week, ideally to a grown-up. 

Spelling: The children will be expected to play a minimum of 5 games of the set spelling rule on EdShed. 

Maths: The children will have a task set on My Maths.

Children are expected to access TT Rockstars or timestables.co.uk a minimum of 3 times a week.

If children cannot access the internet at home, sheets can be requested for homework. 

Don’t forget to keep checking Twitter to see what learning we have been up to! 

Don’t forget to keep checking Twitter to see what learning we have been up to! 

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the school office. 

Thank you for your continued support, 

LKS2 Team