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

Good afternoon, 

We have had a fantastic first week of the new half term in LKS2! As always, the children really threw themselves into our DT Day at the start of the week! The Dollmaker of Krakow, from our Guided Reading text, reached out to us about designing a new product for his toyshop - a miniature model of a traditional Polish church with a ringing church bell which lifts up into the church tower using a pulley mechanism. We then created our design criteria, researched pulley mechanisms and similar products and then designed our unique products. The children had lots of fun making them and showed some great resilience in tricky moments. We also got creative on Thursday in our printing focused Art Day. Here we explored the repeating patterns that are often found on Polish Pisanski (painted eggs at Easter) and designed and created our own printing block. Our egg templates look beautiful and individual with their patterns! 

Reminders for next week: 

• World Book Day on Thursday

• Friday is a Training Day. 

Coming up in our creative curriculum: 

Next week is a Learn Through Week, so our learning will be centred around our theme of influential people, in particular civil rights champions. 

Maths: We will be starting our unit on using the formal written method (column method) for addition. 

Homework:

Homework will be set on a Friday and is due the following Friday. 

Reading: The children will be expected to read a minimum of 3 times a week, ideally to a grown-up. Please record this in their reading records.

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 Instagram to see what learning we have been up to! 

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

LKS2 Team