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

Good afternoon,

This week the children enjoyed starting the week being detectives in Guided Reading! The children used different clues, including photographs, news headlines and artefacts, to try work out what our new Guided Reading text will be about. The children found the start of Walter Tull’s Scrapbook really interesting and are looking forward to reading more over the coming weeks. In English we began our new genre of writing, formal letters! The children had fun with our grammar focus of formal and informal language, practicing saying things in both ways. We also began a new History topic called ‘Is Everybody The Same?’ and a new Science topic called ‘Living Things And Their Habitats’. 

Next week: 

English: We will be continue writing formal letters, this time to Ebor’s CEO, Mrs Brown. Our grammar focus will be on proper nouns. 

Maths: We will be using our place value knowledge to represent 3 digit numbers up to 1000 in different ways. 

Creative curriculum: We will be looking at the question ‘Is it always good to travel to a new place?’ and we will be looking at what happened in the Slave Trade. Our new unit looks at periods of discrimination in History and builds towards looking at the UK as a multicultural country to see the positive progress that has been made, and thinking about what else can be improved even further to ensure everyone is free from discrimination in society. 

PE Year 3: 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).  

PE Year 4: We go swimming on Wednesday. Children need to come to school in their uniform and bring their swimming kit in a bag. Children need to come dressed in PE kit on 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).

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 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