This term our topic was Julia Donaldson. We have looked in depth at variety of Julia Donaldson stories and used these as a basis for our own writing. We have created Julia Donaldson inspired artwork. We used the laptops to research Julia Donaldson, and we learned about her life as an author.

Next term, our topic is Habitats.

P3/4 have learned about the importance of having a Growth Mindset. We try to stay positive in our learning and realise that overcoming challenges help us to learn.

The children learned about internet safety. We had lots of discussion about the importance of staying safe online.

In PE, the children have developed their ball skills by learning different throwing techniques and applying these to a variety of games.

Next term, P3/4 will focus on Safety as well as Rights and Responsibilities in Health and Wellbeing.

This term in maths we have learned different strategies for addition and subtraction within 100. One of the strategies we learned was the column method, or chimney sums. We used Tens and Ones blocks to visualise the way we need to exchange numbers using this method.

We learned about Money and focused on coin/note recognition, counting money, and giving change. We linked our money lessons to Health and Wellbeing, discussing where money comes from, why it is important to save money, and the difference between wants and needs.

Next term in maths, P3/4 will learn about Multiplication and Division, as well as Time. With Miss Davie, the children will learn about Angles and Symmetry.

P3/4 have worked hard this term to plan and write letters to Julia Donaldson. We have also focused on descriptive writing and the children have written pieces describing characters and settings using adjectives. We created fantastic persuasive posters to encourage others to use the internet safely. We have learned about using exclamation marks, question marks, speech marks and conjunctions in our writing.

We have continued to learn a new spelling rule each week, practising our spelling words in lots of different ways.

All the children have been doing a fantastic job of reading with expression and fluency.

Next Term

Maths:  We will be looking at time when we return from the Christmas holidays

Literacy: The children are enjoying, ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ and have asked to read the sequels when we have finished this one.  We will look to build on our vocabulary and upskill our writing techniques.

Project:  The children have chosen to research WW2.  We will focus on how the war affected the people in and around the village.

Literacy:  This term we have been reading the class novel, “The Nowhere Emporium”.  In the novel, the hero Daniel can make magical doors and rooms appear in the Emporium by writing in the ‘Book of Wonder’.  We have made our own ‘Book of Wonder’, with the children writing their own magical room and creating a drawing of their door.