Term 4
Welcome to Term 4!
This term, we have a whole array of fun and engaging learning opportunities for our Year 3 and 4 children. This includes a residential for the Year 4s and Bikeability for the Year 3s, along with many whole-school subject days such as; a Music House Event, World Book Day and World Maths Day. Please do keep an eye out on the school bulletin for ongoing information and reminders.
In our learning, the children will have a brand-new Geography topic on ‘North America’. Using their knowledge of physical and human features, the children will look into the landscape of North America and how its climate can vary to what we experience in the UK. The children will also conduct fieldwork to compare Bristol with a region of North America, using the Golden Threads of; ‘Place’ and the ‘Relationship Between People with Place’.
In our core subjects, the children will be exploring plants in Science. The children will take a deeper look at the different parts that make up plants and the jobs these features do, to allow the living things to survive. The children will also complete enquiry into how they can vary the factors that allow plants to grow, to understand what plants need to survive. In English, we will be using the text, ‘The Tin Forest’ as our stimulus in the hope of writing recounts from a character’s point of view. Finally, in maths, we will be conducting our look into fractions and consolidating and building on the children’s understanding of measure too.
Elsewhere, the children will complete a pneumatics unit in Design and Technology (DT) and a racquet unit of Tennis and Badminton with their class teacher, in Physical Education (PE). The children will additionally complete Tag Rugby learning with our PE Specialist, Mr Samaras. Please can we ask that the children come dressed appropriately for PE lessons, in the unpredictable, British weather.
What an exciting term it is going to be!
The information for the Year 4 camp can be found here: Camp Presentation
- Our Welcome Meeting notes and PowerPoint will be on the Y3&4 pages of the school website, if you require any information about back to school.