🌟 Primary 3/4 Weekly Round-Up – Term 3, Week Nine
✏️ Literacy & Spelling
This week in spelling we focused on the suffix “able.” We continued building our understanding of prefixes and suffixes and how they can change both the structure of a word and its meaning. The children have really enjoyed exploring new vocabulary and thinking carefully about how words are formed.
Our new traffic light spelling system has also been introduced. This allows children to identify words they feel confident with, words they are still practising, and words they want to research further. It has been fantastic to see the children taking ownership of their learning by investigating unfamiliar words and expanding their vocabulary.
In writing, our work was inspired by The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson. The children wrote news reports about the capture of the Highway Rat, creating exciting alliterative headlines to hook the reader.
We also completed a joint ICT and writing activity, where the children worked in pairs to design comic strips retelling the story in sequence. This task helped develop their understanding of narrative structure while building digital creativity and teamwork skills.
🔢 Maths
In maths this week we continued developing our understanding of the jump strategy for addition, helping the children strengthen their confidence when solving addition problems using number lines and mental strategies.
We also consolidated our understanding of odd and even numbers, as well as greater than and less than, reinforcing number sense and comparison skills.
This week we also explored ordinal numbers. To help make this concept practical and engaging, the children held races using wind-up toys, observing which toy came first, second, third, and so on. This helped them understand that ordinal numbers describe position in a sequence rather than quantity.
💻 ICT
We continued developing our ICT skills this week. As part of our writing work, the children created comic strips on the computer retelling The Highway Rat.
We also used Story Blast to work on comprehension activities such as word sorting and sentence building, helping to strengthen reading and grammar skills.
🌍 Topic – People Who Help Us
This week we began our new topic: People Who Help Us, focusing particularly on emergency services.
The class worked together to create a large roadmap display for our classroom wall. Each child created:
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A building where a helper might work (for example, a police station, fire station or hospital)
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A picture of the person who works there
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A short explanation describing what they do and how they help others
We will continue adding to this roadmap over the coming weeks as we learn more about different roles in our community.
🎭 Assembly Preparation
We are continuing to work hard preparing for our upcoming Maths Spectacular Assembly. Scripts have now gone home so the children can practise their lines, and we have begun creating some fantastic props for the performance.
So far the class has created:
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Number cards
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Angle cards
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A large opening display sign
The children also have some exciting ideas for a large prop, which we hope to begin creating next week.
🐶 Visitors and Wider Learning
On Friday we had a visit from Dogs Against Drugs, where the children learned about the important work these dogs do and how they help support communities. It was a very interesting session and the children asked some excellent questions.
Our Primary 4 pupils also took part in a STEM activity day, where they explored coding and robotics. They worked with small programmable robots, learning how to code them to move and complete tasks while thinking about accuracy, measurement, and problem-solving.
🎨 Play Provision
This week’s play provision included Barbies, dolls and doll’s houses, which were voted for by the class. The children engaged in imaginative role play, storytelling and collaborative play.
There has also been a big interest in jigsaws and board games, with children working together to solve puzzles and play cooperatively, developing patience, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
Alongside this, we continued exploring construction activities and times tables challenges, allowing the children to practise both creativity and numeracy skills during play.
