Friday 31 January 2020

Year 4 Certificates 31/01/20

This week in Ash the following children were awarded with 4R certificates.



Reciprocity: Freddie

Resilience: Lily

Reflectiveness: Maisie

Resourcefulness: Gabriela

Super job children! I am so impressed with your amazing 4Rs. Miss Young

This week in Birch the following children were awarded with R certificates.

Resilience: Well done Charlie for working really hard throughout this week. I am happy with your learning at home as well. Keep it up!

Reciprocity: Well done Oliver for being a positive learner. You work really well with your peers and you are always willing to support them in their learning. Keep it up!
Miss Islam  
     


Thursday 30 January 2020

First pen licences in Year 4!!

Well done to Kanishka, Harry, Lily, Katlyn and Finley who have been awarded the first pen licences in Year 4.

They have been working tirelessly to ensure their work is always beautifully presented and handwriting is joined.

Well done children; your hard work has paid off!


We take presentation of work and handwriting very seriously in Year 4. This is a fundamental part of the writing process to ensure children can continue to make required progress. Please see the statements below for more information regarding the national requirements. 

Fingers crossed, in the coming weeks we will have even more Pen Licences given out!

National Curriculum expectations statutory requirements:

Pupils should be taught to:  
  • Use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined  
  • Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting [for example, by ensuring that the down strokes of letters are parallel and equidistant; that lines of writing are spaced sufficiently so that ascenders and descenders of letters do not touch]. 

Pupils should be joining handwriting throughout their independent writing. Handwriting should continue to be taught, with the aim of increasing the fluency with which pupils are able to write what they want to say. This, in turn, will support their composition and spelling. 









Year 4 Scientists classifying leaves!

In science, Year 4 are learning about Living Things and Their Habitats. For the past few weeks, our focus has been on classification; creating classification keys to classify different types of plants and animals.

On Tuesday, the children of Ash and Birch explored outside the classroom into Broadford's playground to collect different types of leaves. We are indeed in the middle of winter so it was difficult to find some! We all looked very carefully for leaves on the floor. We then came back inside and worked in pairs to create our classification keys.


We first planned on whiteboards and then drew the classification key on A3 paper. We learned different technical vocabulary, such as lobate, serrate, entire (words that describe the edge of the leaf). We then put this to use for our closed-questions (e.g., Is the edge of the leaf serrated?)

The children worked extremely hard to create their classification key and worked so well in pairs using their reciprocity skills!

Miss Islam and Miss Young are extremely impressed with the amount of scientific enquiry and curiosity in both Birch and Ash!






Wednesday 29 January 2020

Year 3 Curriculum - Spring

Year 3 - Curriculum Newsletter
We hope you find this letter informative, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher if you have any questions relating to the curriculum.

Homework:
Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night:
  • 5 minutes reading to an adult and note in the reading record
  • 15 minutes practising spellings
  • 15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)
If children would like to attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Worldly Wise challenge for the Autumn Term. There will be more detailed information to follow regarding this.


Spellings:
Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practise their words every evening. We encourage the children to write their words in sentences on the back of their homework sheet. Their spelling test will take place on Fridays. 

Rockstar Times Tables:
Children will be completing their times tables daily in school at the start of each maths lesson. Please practise times tables with your children at home. They all have passwords and access to the Rockstars app or alternatively they could simply practise writing their times tables out. They take part in a ‘Sound Check’ every Friday morning which involves their test taking place.

Curriculum Information
We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this half term. If you have any questions about the topics being covered, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor

Year 3 Leader



Spring Term

1st Half Term
2nd Half Term
Literacy
Guided Reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation
Science-fiction stories
Explanation texts
Guided reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation
Mystery stories
Non-chronological reports
Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read.
For a good selection of childrens books visit the local library. Also Mybookblog can be accessed from home with your children's individual usernames and passwords.
Numeracy
Rockstars timetables
Place value
Multiplication/division
Fractions
Data Handling
Rockstars times tables
Decimals
Solving Problems with addition and subtraction
Rockstars and MyMaths can be accessed from home with the children’s individual usernames/passwords.
ICT
Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs. Including collecting, analysing and presenting data and information.
Making things happen in a sequence, creating simple animation and simulation-Scratch
Science
Earth Rocks!
Looking at the different types of rocks and investigating their characteristics.
N/A
You could visit the Science Museum. Admission is free. Located at Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD.
Geography
What makes the earth angry?
Volcanoes  
What makes the Earth angry?


Earthquakes
R.E
Faith - Religious Figures
Faith - Religious Figures
P.E
Rugby/Football/Netball
Rugby/Football/Netball
PE will usually be on Wednesday, but this can vary. Please ensure your child brings in their kit and leaves it in school.
Music
Three Little Birds
Listening and appraising the song as well as singing, playing, improvising and composing.
The Dragon Song
Listening and appraising the song as well as creating a performance.
French
Animals/pets
Weather
Adjectives
Easter
Art
Painting
Experimenting with different effects and textures and using a colour vocabulary.
N/A
P.S.H.E
Getting on and falling out
Getting on and falling out
Trips

Natural History Museum - 28th January 2019

Maths Stay & Learn -
Tuesday 14th January 9-9.30 am
Mystery Workshop - Date to TBA


Year 3 Spellings 27.1.20


Sunday 26 January 2020

Year 4 Geography

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Dear parents or carers,


In Geography we have been learning about the rainforest. In the next part of our learning, we will be building a rainforest using recyclable materials. We would appreciate it if you could donate spare cereal boxes, bottles, cans, any animal toys that you do not use and any other recyclable materials. Please send these resources in by Wednesday 29th January 2020. 

Kind regards, 

The Year 4 team. 






Year 4 Spellings 27/1/20


A
B
C
division
division
division
revision
revision
revision
explosion
explosion
explosion
confusion
confusion
confusion
decision
decision
decision
invasion
invasion
invasion
collision
collision
collision
television
television
television
erosion
erosion
erosion
conclusion
conclusion
conclusion
tough
Wednesday

thorough
Tuesday

ought
January

though
February

brought
remember

throughout
thoughts

rough
answer

through
actual

bought
disappear

sought
possible

Year 4 Spellings 18/11/19



A
B
C
happily
happily
happily
rudely
rudely
rudely
finally
finally
finally
sleepily
sleepily
sleepily
hastily
hastily
hastily
angrily
angrily
angrily
sadly
sadly
sadly
merrily
merrily
merrily
heavily
heavily
heavily
cheekily
cheekily
cheekily
dramatically
headline

heroically
caption

automatically
lead

paragraph
paragraph

bossily 
source

comically 
primary

frantically
secondary

slowly
reliable

physically 
newspaper

magically 
image