17.9.18 Year 4 Spellings

See below this week’s spellings in Year 4.

We look forward to seeing who will get full marks on Friday!

Year 3 - Local trip to Central Park

We just wanted to advise you that we will be walking the Year 3 children to Central Park on Wednesday 19th September.  We are working towards writing a descriptive story in Literacy which will be set in a woodland area, we feel the children would benefit from experiencing this in real life to support the development of a bank of language.

You have already signed permission forms for local trips however we are just notifying you of our intention.  We will only be out approximately 1 hour and this will not effect the children's lunch. Please speak to your Class Teacher if you have any concerns.

Year 3 - Awards

These children received a 4 R certificate for working incredibly well in a team as History detectives demonstrating Reciprocity.

Year 3 History Detectives

This week the Year 3's have demonstrated great resilience as we started our Topic. "How architecture influenced society across the ages".   They have immersed themselves in this new topic and used their detective skills whilst carrying out fun tasks to research different buildings from the past, starting in particular with the Stone Age.

The topic kick started with some deep thinking regarding what they wanted to find out. After investigating different structures from the past they were given the opportunity to create their own buildings using junk modelling and natural resources.


The children demonstrated reciprocity when working in table teams to solve a puzzle containing probing questions relating to structures from the past.  They were encouraged to ponder about "Why did stone age buildings change?" and the kinds of of Historical sources available. among other things.

Tilly said "There's a secondary source in the book corner its a book about the Stone Age".

The children were given the task of replicating a type of house using classroom equipment and whatever they could grab from outside!

Ellie and Isreal made a hide tent from sticks and paper...

Jeremiah, Oliver, Jersey, and Charlie made a tulou from multilink and leaves...

Whilst Roberto, Akunna, Sophie, and Maddison made their tulou out of dienes...

3 different groups made a stilt house from dienes, multilink and paper...

 And Tyler, Moyin, Nancy, and Bella made a minka from paper and miltilink.

This was a challenging task that demanded lots of reciprocity and patience from all groups. Good job year 3! Great teamwork!

Have a good weekend and we look forward to seeing those reading records!

Miss Taylor and Mr Nicol :)

Week 1 In Year 4!

Well what a fantastic few days it has been in Year 4 already! The children have settled in superbly into their new classes and have impressed their teachers during a number of different activities. 

They began their first day with a summer bingo activity, investigating what their peers had got up to. 

We found out that Lewis had been fishing, Rayne went shopping and Billy went to the park (just to name a few). The children also played game of 3 truths and a lie to discover just how well they know eachother which revealed many interesting facts.

Here are just a few of our discoveries: 

Laicey hates jacket potato and is allergic to daddies sauce. 

Ruben has a brother in the army. 

Naz doesn't like sushi and is going to take guitar lessons.

 Amandeep is addicted to eating chips! 

Polina was stung by a wasp when she was three.

In addition to this, they’ve been applying their addition and subtraction knowledge to solve problems, recapped their place value knowledge, completed a number of grammar activities and written an adventure story! 

We ended the week with an extra special treat; the children used our brand new Chrome books for the very first time! The children all successfully logged onto the WiFi and set their chrome book up with their own personal accounts. They then used google docs to collaborate on a document and experimented with different styles of text. They then learned how to insert images from the web and how to insert a table. Not bad for an hours work! 

"Wow it’s green now! I love it." Shouted Kiera 

"I can't believe we are all typing and I can see it. It's magic!" James

"I love how I can get the pictures on there from google!" Maisy 

The children were brilliant at unscrambling the mystery words!

Year 3 get off to a fantastic start in KS2

This week, year 3 have dove deep into KS2 life. They have taken part in team building activities, they have all started their MyBookBlog questions, and they have met the high expectations of year 3 behaviour!

Teachers and children have also got to know each other... Mr Nicol found out that Adefolawemi loves playing FIFA with his brother and that Nancy goes to dance lessons each week! Miss Taylor discovered that Gabriela loves Mamma Mia and Freddie S. has been to Turkey!

We look forward to a busy, hardworking year ahead. Have a great weekend and remember to get those reading records signed!

Mr Nicol and Miss Taylor :)

Year 3 Curriculum Newsletter

Dear Parents and Carers,

Year 3 - Curriculum Newsletter

Welcome back to the new academic year! 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:

• 15 minutes reading to themselves or 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 Learning Challenge for children to attempt this half of the Autumn Term. All of the activities are based around a significant person, poem or painting relating to our topics. Children do not have to attempt every activity but instead select the activities that they are most interested in and compile a project that reflects the extra time and effort that they have put into their challenge. We hope that children will take their time with the challenge and be proud of the work they produce they should hand this into their teacher at the end of the half term.

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. Children in Read, Write, Inc groups could have their spellings given out and tested on different days.

Rockstar Times tables:

Children will be completing their timestables daily in school at the start of each maths lesson. Please practise timestables with your children at home.

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 Mr Nicol

Sequoia Class Teacher Hazel Class Teacher

Autumn Term
	1st Half Term	2nd Half Term
Literacy	Spelling, grammar and punctuation Creating a setting Instructions	Spelling, grammar and punctuation Playscripts Information Texts
	Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read. For a good selection of children books visit the local library.
Numeracy	Place Value & Number Reasoning with 3 digit numbers ‘Count on us’ weekly session - tangrams, pentonimoes etc.	Multiplication and Division Addition & Subtraction Time ‘Count on us’ weekly session - tangrams, pentonimoes etc.
	This can be accessed from home with the children’s individual usernames/passwords.
ICT	Using Chromebooks Google Classroom Keyboard Skills	E Safety
Science	Human Body and Senses	Human Body & Senses
	You could visit the Science Museum. Admission is free. Located at Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD.
History/ Geography	How has architecture influenced society across the ages?	How has architecture influenced society across the ages?
R.E		Hinduism - Festival of Diwali
P.E	Netball/Football/Tag Rugby	Netball/Football/Tag Rugby
	PE will be on Mondays. Please ensure your child brings in their kit.
Music	Rhythm and Pitch Music around the world	Rhythm and Pitch Christmas Production
Art/ Design and Technology	Faces and Expressions	3D Sculptures
French	Greetings, classroom instructions, animals, numbers.	Genders, storytelling, French names, Christmas.
P.H.S.E	Rights & Responsibilities
Trips	Our first trip will be to the new MOD Pizza resaturant in Romford, where the children will be making their own pizzas to support their writing of instructions in Literacy & Language. Date to be confirmed letter to follow.