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Resilience- How have people solved problems through innovations?

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Resilience- How have people solved problems through innovations?

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This term our whole school learning lens will be 'Resilence'. In year 3 and 4, we will be finding out how people have solved problems through innovation and investigating the concepts of passion, creativity, failure, reform and liberty.

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During our writing sessions, we will be looking at 'Leon and the Place Between' by Angela Mcallister and Grahame Baker-Smith. The book follows Leon in a circus, and captures the magical moments of him going between a variety of places.

We will be using our newly acquired knowledge to write Leon's secret diary about what really happened in 'the place between', including the conversation between Leon and the boy.

Later in the term, we will be studying 'Zeraffa Giraffa' by Diane Hoffmeyer. In this we will be learning to write a persuasive guide for visiting Zeraffa at the 'Jarden de Plantes' in Paris.

We will be developing the following skills:

Build an increasing range of sentence structures

In narratives, create settings, characters and pot

In non-narrative material, use simple organisational devices including headings and sub-headings to aid presentation

Understand the grammatical difference between plural and possessive 's'

Using layout features e.g. questions to draw in the reader, headings and sub-headings, paragraphs to group related ideas, diagrams

Using present and past tenses correctly and consistently including the progressive form

Using subordination (using when, if, that, or because) and co-ordination (using and, or, but)

Using expanded noun phrases to describe and specify

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During our reading comprehension sessions, we will be looking at 'The Egyptian Cinderella' by Shirely Climo during Autumn 1.

In Autumn 2, we will be focusing on the non-fiction book 'Illustrated Atlas of Britain and Ireland' by Struan Reid and Megan Cullis.

Within our sessions, we will be:

Retrieving and recording information

Identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning

Use dictionaries to understand words within the text

Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise

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

Spelling: Weekly spellings. Spellings will be tested each Friday morning.

Doodle: All children have access to Doodle Maths, English, Spelling and Tables. Daily practice on Doodle will be greatly 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 who go above and beyond.

TTRS:

Children now have access to Times Tables Rockstars. We would like children to access the site for a minimum of 20 minutes each week.

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

Spelling: Weekly spellings. Spellings will be tested each Friday morning.

Doodle: All children have access to Doodle Maths, English, Spelling and Tables. Daily practice on Doodle will be greatly 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 who go above and beyond.

TTRS:

Children now have access to Times Tables Rockstars. We would like children to access the site for a minimum of 20 minutes each week.

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Our first science unit this term is Light. Children will learn how light enables us to see objects, how shadows form and change, and how to protect ourselves from damage due to sunlight.

Our second science unit will be Sound. Children will learn how sounds are made when something vibrates, and how to change the amplitude and pitch of sounds.

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Ancient Civilisations

This term we will be learning about Ancient Civilisations from across the world. We'll be finding out about Ancient Sumer, the World's first emperor and Ancient Egypt. During our learning of Ancient Egypt, we will be looking at:

Key figures such as Rameses II

Their belief in regards to the afterlife

Daily life

We will be linking all elements covered to our previous learning in past years.

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In the Autumn term, we will be looking at the following mathematical topics:

Year 3

Place Value

Addition and subtraction

Multiplication and division

Year 4

Place Value

Addition and subtraction

Multiplication and division

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

Children in Year 4 should be working on all times tables up to the 12 times tables.

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This term our Geography learning will be linked to Ancient civilisations.

In lessons we will developing skills in:

-Identifying the physical geographical features of areas around the world and understanding its importance.

-Identify the positions and significance of latitude, longitude, the Equator and Northern/Southern Hemispheres.

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Every Monday, children in Year 4 will be learning how to play brass instruments with the help of Music for Life instructors.

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Children will be given spellings on Monday of each week. These will be tested on Fridays. Children will have daily spelling lessons based on each week's spelling list.

Each Monday, children will receive a paper copy of the spelling list to bring home, and a spelling assignment will be set on Doodle. This term, we will focus on consolidating tricky and high-frequency words from KS1, homophones, rules for adding suffixes, irregular past tense verbs, superlatives, and vocabulary from our class texts 'Leon and the Place Between' and 'Egyptian Cinderella'.

Pupils who are continuing their work on our phonics scheme 'Read, Write Inc.' will have weekly phonic-based spelling tests, and Doodle assignments will be based on these.

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At Cherry Grove we use the Charanga music scheme, and our focus areas this half term will be Writing Music Down and Playing In A Band. Children will begin to learn how high and low pitched sounds can be represented by musical symbols, how we use the idea of beats in music, and how we can sing and play instruments together. Children will be introduced to well known songs including The Locomotion, Handel's Messiah, When The Saints Go Marching In, and My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean; using these songs, they will consider social questions such as What do songs tell us about the past?, and How can music bring us closer together?

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louis armstrong when the saints go marching in

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During our French lessons, we will be learning:

how to count to 10 in French.

how to read, write, say and recognise 10 colours in French

learn 7 modes of transport (nouns and definite articles/determiners)

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In computing, our units are called 'The Internet ' and 'Audio Production' . In this we will be:

- learning that the World Wide Web is part of the internet

- given opportunities to explore the World Wide Web for themselves in order to learn about who owns content and what they can access, add, and create.

-evaluating online content to decide how honest, accurate, or reliable it is, and understand the consequences of false information.

-identifying the input device (microphone) and output devices (speaker or headphones) required to work with sound digitally

-discussing the ownership of digital audio and the copyright implications of duplicating the work of others.

-using Audacity to produce a podcast, which will include editing work, adding multiple tracks, and opening and saving the audio files.

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This term we will start with a focus on colour - colour mixing in painting, learning about tints, shades and complimentary colours. We will develop this in collage.

We will then create artwork inspired by the school buildings in a celebration of our school and the patterns and details of our lovely old building.

Artist Anna Clark will be working with the children to create mixed media pieces of the school - starting with sketches and photographs, then using collage, print and painting.

We will also create some focused tonal studies of Egyptian face masks.

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We realise that children need to feel happy and confident in school to be successful.  Using Coram Life Education, we will be equipping them to make safe and informed decisions and helping them to develop a happy and healthy lifestyle.

This term, our PSHE lessons will be focused on 'Me and My relationships' and 'Valuing difference'.

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Nasal Flu Vaccine- 17th September

Parents Evening- Week commencing 22nd September

Egyptian Workshop-14th October

Halloween Disco- 23rd October

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Our P.E focus this term is invasion games; passing and moving along with dribbling, movement and teamwork in sports such as netball, football and tag rugby.

PE Days:

Maple- Tuesday

Oak- Thursday

Rowan- Tuesday

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In R.E, we will be teaching children all about Judaism. We will be exploring how Jewish people demonstrate their faith through their communities. Pupils will be reflecting on why and how Jews worship, looking at key features of a synagogue and understanding the importance of Passover.

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During our weekly My Happy Mind lessons, we will be looking at the following:

- How to focus our mind to help them train their brain.

-About Team H-A-P and their roles in more detail.

-How our emotions impact Team H-A-P and how to support their brains to relax when feeling sad, stressed or worried.

-Why our Amygdala behaves the way it does and how evolution has shaped how it works.

-How we can use Happy Breathing during times of stress and how our Hippocampus stores the memory of this when we practise.

-About Neurons and Neural Pathways and the role they play in learning.

-How to look after their brains to help them to be at their best.