Year 3/4

Year 3/4 Spring Term

Things to remember

School opens at 8:40am each day and all children are expected to be in class by 8:50am
School finishes at 3:00pm
Homework is given out on a Friday and should be returned no

later than the following Wednesday

PE days are Monday & Thursday (Swimming-Tues AM for Year 4)

For Parents / Carers – Supporting your child at home

Please continue to help your child by

Ensuring all possessions, including uniform have names on
Encouraging your child to be as independent as possible
Listening to them read regularly
Practising maths skills, especially times tables 3x, 2x, 5x, 4x, 8x.
Encouraging and supporting with homework

Key Dates

Sport Relief Week – Beginning Monday 9^th March
Year 3 & 3/4 Kitchen event- Tuesday 17^th March 3pm
Whole class photos – Wednesday 18^th March
Week of 23^rd March – parental drop ins for guided reading, days / times TBC
Science Roadshow – Monday 23^rd March
Wear a hat day – Thursday 26^th March (Raising funds for Brain Tumour Research)
Year 3 / 4 visit to Touchstones – Wednesday 1^st April
World Autism Awareness Day – Wear something blue - Thursday 2^nd April
Last day of term - Friday 3^rd April 2020
Children return to school – Monday 20^th April

Reading

Children will be rewarded for reading at home and this will be celebrated in Friday assembly.

Bronze award – 18 books
Silver award – 36 books
Gold award – 54 books

Children need to bring their record to school each morning for checking.

Curriculum – What will the children be learning about during this half term?

English

We will be reading the abridged version of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Emma Chichester Clark. The children will be retelling the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party from the viewpoint of the main character, Alice.

Please support your child in learning their spellings. These will be sent home weekly in preparation for our weekly spelling test each Friday.

Maths

This half term we will be learning about money, statistics, length and fractions.

Please support your child in learning their times tables and division facts particularly 3x, 4x and 8x.

Topic

Our topic this half term is a local history study about the Rochdale Pioneers. We will be learning about how the Co-operative was first started by a group of ordinary people on Toad Lane in Rochdale in 1844.