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Year 3/4 (Mrs Lane)
Welcome to Year 3/4!
We are very excited for the academic year ahead. The team working in
Year 3/4 E this year is:
Mrs Lane, Ms Watson and Miss Williams.
Our topic for the Spring Term is
Deadly 60!
To begin this topic, we will look at a variety of the deadliest animals from around the world. We will interpret data, research facts and discover the locations of where these animals live. We will use our reasoning and estimation skills to learn more about the size and weight of deadly animals. Then we will use our Literacy skills to write information on our chosen deadly animals. We will use our learnt skills through our independent challenges every afternoon!
We plan to go on 'Deadly 60 trips', experience animal encounters and get outdoors as much as possible!
*** In Year 3/4 we are taking the lead in developing our new outdoor classroom - we can't wait to be able to show you this!
General Information
School day: 8.50am – 3.05pm. Doors open 8.40
School Uniform: There is an expectation that children wear school uniform. Royal blue jumper, white or yellow polo shirt and black trousers / joggers / leggings.
Please label all uniform, coats, bags and shoes!
Toast Tuesday and Thursday: 10p per item, maximum 2 items per child.
Lunch: The children can either have school dinners or a packed lunch. ALL children are entitled to a free school meal. The termly menus can be found on the Swansea council web page. Please check with your child in advance.
Homework: Children will have a new topic homework grid sent home at the start of a new topic. Alongside this please encourage your child to practise their Literacy and Numeracy skills on Reading Eggs, Maths Seeds, TT Rockstars and Spell Blast.
PE: The children will have a set PE day. They will need to come into school dressed suitably for PE. White top, black joggers/leggings/shorts and trainers. Our PE day is a Thursday.
Forest school: We try to get outdoors as much as possible and will have a big push on this during Sprinf Term. Please send wellies in to be kept in school with names on. Please send coats in to school on colder and rainy days (and hats ect. when needed).
Dojo: We will continue to use dojo as a means of communication. You can let us know via dojo if your child is going to be off school for any reason.
Coffee Shop: Friday mornings - 8:40am, pop in for a chat or to ask anything!
Big Boc Bwyd: Open every Friday!
Weekly Spellings - Please see Class Dojo to see which list you need to be learning.
HOME LEARNING 04.01.21
https://login.mathletics.com/
Pick a lesson and try some of the new resources.
https://ttrockstars.com/
Practice your times tables.
https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html
Look at the clips and pick an activity that you would like to complete.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
What can you find out?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/index.shtml
This is fantastic! Pick some and set yourself a challenge.
Talk4Writing Activities - 05.01.21
Weekly Resources
11.01.21 - Remember our TEAMs meeting @10:30am
https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/pompeii
Follow the link above, what can you find out. Create a power point, fact file or poster to display your information.
How is the information linked to our new topic?
Watch Newsround and tell me what is happening around the world!!!!!!!!
MATHS
Follow this link and pick a maths lesson for every day.
TALK4WRITING LITERACY PACK - work your way through the activities.
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Book Hunt
FIRST NEWS - 11.01.21
English
ENGLISH
1. Follow the links below.
2. Write a newspaper article about Pompeii.
3. Remember that you were there!!! Report on the horrific disaster.
4. Use word. Insert different fonts, sizes and pictures.
5. Click on layout at the top of the page and insert columns. This will help you with a newspaper layout.
6. Save in your hwb files and we will leave you a comment.
We look forward to reading these!!!!
MATHS
Topic
Religions Around the World
Can you create fact files on all the worlds religions? What are their beliefs? Do they have holy books? What do they celebrate?
Example of a Fact File
FIRST NEWS
25.01.21 - Remember our meeting at 10:00 am
ALL work is now on TEAMs. You have assignments to view and complete by friday. Please make sure that you have followed the videos that were sent home through dojo.
Thank you
Weekly Spellings.
* See your list of spellings for this week. Can you write sentences using the words?
FIRST NEWS - 25.01.21
WELL-BEING
01.02.21
ALL WORK IS NOW ON TEAMS. Please see assignments for set work.
Thank you 😊
CHRISTMAS HOME LEARNING
https://login.mathletics.com/
Pick a lesson and try some of the new resources.
https://ttrockstars.com/
Practice your times tables.
https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html
Look at the clips and pick an activity that you would like to complete.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
What can you find out?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/index.shtml
Pick a lesson and challenge yourself.
Resources
Academic Year 2019-20
Work for 13.07.20
First News
THRIVE activities
Work for 06.07.20
Maths Problems
Pobble 365 Activities
First News
Work for 29.06.20
Maths Papers and Discussion Text
Thrive Activities
First News
Work for 22.06.20
Work for 14th June 2020
Maths - Calculating time durations
First News 14.06.20
Activities and First News - 01.06.20 --08.06.20
#EmpathyDay - Read stories. Build empathy. Make a better world - 6th June 2020.
Work for 18.05.2020
Activities and First News - 18.05.20
Work for 11th May 2020
The 3rd Empathy Class Novel
JELLY by Jo Cotterill
Activities and First News - 11.05.20
Activities and First News - 04.05.20
LOOK AT THIS - 04.05.20
Work for week 20th April 2020 - 27th April 2020
Corona Virus: Please find below ideas for work on our current topics. Remember you can send/ask anything via Class Dojo.
First News: 27/04/20
FIRST NEWS - 30.03.20
First News - 06.04.20
FIRST NEWS - 20.04.20
ACTIVITIES FOR 30.03.20
ELLA ON THE OUTSIDE -------------------------EMPATHY NOMINATIONS - Can you nominate a character from the book that showed the most empathy?
EMPATHY LAB ACTIVITIES
THRIVE ACTIVITIES
DYLAN THOMAS WRITING COMPETITION
09.04.20 - Activities
13.04.20 Activities - Create a Banksy fact file and complete the writing task.
Our next class novel
Try ordering this book, The Miraculous Journey Edward Tulane
This is a link for a free audible trial on Amazon.
Its an amazing book!!!!!
Practise Tests
This link will take you to test papers that the children can look at and have a go.
Welcome to Year 5/6
In our class we are striving to be confident, healthy and ambitious individuals! We are developing our Growth Mindsets to enjoy and seek challenge.
Yr 5/6 blog, Feb/March 2020
Wow we have had some busy, fun weeks! We have had porpoise week - where developed many skills, accessing lots of different workshops and activities. Some of our favourites were 'animal encounter' - where we were able to see and hold some exotic, endangered animals! We also loved working with David the author and interviewing welsh sports stars like James Hook and Lee Trundle.
We have just had Welsh Week, we focused on the town of Aberfan and the Welsh legend, Sir Tom Jones. We performed our class assembly and really enjoyed telling our parents all about this fun week learning about our culture and country. We used our Empathy skills to look at some of the stories from the disaster of Aberfan and looked at different people's perspectives.
Year 5/6 Blog!
Happy new year! We can't believe it's 2020! Our topic this term is Water World. We have just started exploring our ideas and deciding what we'd like to learn about. I really like the Titanic idea!
Molly, Year 6
Year 5/6 Blog!
" Our topic this term has been World War 2. This has been one of my favourite topics ever because I love learning about the soldiers and the evacuees. The story of Anne Frank is the most interesting and I can't wait to read her diary. We went on a trip to the museum where we saw so many items from the war and learnt so much! "
Izzy, Year 6
Here are some important reminders now we are in Year 5/6!
* Our PE day is Wednesday. Please ensure children have their PE Kit of black bottoms and white top.
* Our homework days are Tuesday and Thursday.
* Please keep listening to us read and reading to us, our reading day is Friday (please return books and reading diaries on this day)
Thank you,
Mrs Edmunds and Miss Salway