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Consequence- How has the past influenced modern life? 

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Consequence- How has the past influenced modern life? 

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This term all of the learning in year 3 and 4 will be linked by the theme of 'Consequence'. Within this, we'll be exploring in detail the concepts of sustainability, care, influence, respect and morals.

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This term in English we'll be reading 'The Sea Book' by Charlotte Milner. We'll be developing our reading skills with a focus on:

-Identifying the main ideas within a text.

-Summarising information.

-Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.

-Retrieving and recording information.

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This term in English will begin with poetry. We'll be reading and writing our own Haiku poems. Following this, we'll be reading 'Big Blue Whale' by Nicola Davies and 'Leon and the Place Between' by Angela McAllister. We'll be using these texts to inspire us when writing our own information text and magical story.

Key skills covered (Year 3):

-Using adverbs to express time, place and cause

-Build an increasing range of sentence structures

-Use headings and sub-headings to aid presentation

-Group related ideas into paragraphs

-Use prepositions and conjunctions to express time, place and cause

Key skills covered (Year 4):

-Expand noun phrases by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases

-Build an increasing range of sentence structures

-Develop understanding of the difference between plural and possessive 's'

-Use a range of organisational features when producing non-fiction writing

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This term in maths we'll be learning about:

Year 3:

-Pictograms and Bar Graphs

-Fractions

-Angles

-Lines and shapes

-Perimeter

Year 4:

-Money

-Length, Mass and Volume

-Area and Perimeter

-Geometry

-Position and Movement

Children in year 3 should be working on 2x,5x,10x,3x,4x and 8x times tables.

Children in year 4 should be working on all of their multiplication tables up to 12x tables.

Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check:

This check will take place from Monday 10th of June to Friday 15th of June.

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This term in Science we'll be learning about plants. The key concept we'll be investigating is the idea that plants create their own food.

During science lessons we'll be finding out more about the characteristics of living things, parts of plants, what plants need to grow and adaptations of plants to suit their environments.

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This term our work in Geography and History will be linked to both modern and ancient Greece.

We'll be comparing Greece and the UK in terms of climate, weather and land-use patterns.

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This term in History we'll be studying the Ancient Greeks. We'll be investigating the how developments in Ancient Greece have influenced life today.

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This term in P.E. the children will be developing their striking and fielding skills through tennis, cricket and rounders. Following this, we will be moving onto a range of athletics based activities.

P.E. Day:

Rowan- Friday PM

Juniper- Friday PM

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This term in R.E we'll be learning about the meaning of Shabbat within the Jewish faith. After this, we will be investigating the meaning behind the Buddhist Kathina festival.

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This term we'll be evaluating and enhancing Greek boat designs as our design and technology project.

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This term in ICT we'll be using computer software to create graphs and present information.

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This term our PSHE sessions will be focussed on 'Being the best we can' and 'Growing and changing'.

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This term, children in year 4 will take part in weekly Samba drumming sessions. These will take place every Monday.

Children in year 3 will be listening and appraising music before composing and improvising using the notes C,D,E,G,A (Pentatonic scale).

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Reading: 20 minutes of daily reading. This should be recorded in reading records and returned to school each morning.

Spelling: Weekly spellings. Spelling tests will take place every Friday afternoon.

Doodle: Daily practice on Doodle will be highly beneficial to your child's learning and progress. We'll be checking in with children daily to help bolster their motivation and special recognition will be given to children every Friday during Mrs Hacking's Gold Award assembly.