The Grange Primary School | Autumn 2 Half Termly Overview – Year 3/4

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Homework Children will receive the following

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Weekly spellings and times tables (given out on Friday).

Assignments and optional games on Spelling Shed Reading at least 4 times a week with their school reading book or library book. This needs to be recorded in the yellow reading records please.

If there are any problems with the completion of homework, please speak to Mr Evans or Mrs Mukherjee and we can put a plan in place to try and help.

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WC 15th November is antibullying week Friday 19th November is Children in Need Tuesday 14th December the Pantomime will be coming to visit the children with a special Christmas performance Wednesday 15th December is Christmas jumper day. It is also the day of the Christmas dinner.

Friday 17th December is the final day of term before the Christmas holidays.

**Parents evening will be at the end of November, please keep tuned with the school website for more information on this.

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Children should be reading 4+ times a week. Reading records will be checked every morning.

P.E kits should be worn on the days of PE Rabbit Class PE days are Monday and Thursday Squirrel Class PE days are Monday and Wednesday Children should bring a labelled water bottle to drink from throughout the day.

Grange Primary School

Year 3 & 4 Autumn 2 Half Termly Overview Staff Members Squirrel Class: • Mrs Mukherjee • Mrs Chadwick Rabbit Class: • Mr Evans • Mrs Evanson Other Staff Members: • Mrs Beddoes

English In our writing, we will be focussing on writing a myth based on the famous myth, Pandora’s Box. The children will learn all about the myth of Pandora’s Box which includes a mystery box in our own class which should never be opened! Eventually, the children will be writing their own myth similar to Pandora’s Box with their own mythical ideas. It will be an amazing opportunity to show off their fictional writing ability!

We will be learning some new grammar skills this term including, paragraphs, fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases. It is also important to remember to use full stops and capital letters mostly accurately.

At home, parents/carers can help by reading regularly to and with children.

It is also very beneficial to discuss any new words or phrases children may **99999999999999999999999999 come across at school or at home.

Maths This half- term our focus will be on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Children will greatly benefit from practising their times tables at home.

By the end of year 3 children should know their x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and x8 table.

By the end of year 4 children should be confident in recalling times tables up to 12x12 including the corresponding division facts.

Children can practise their times table at home by using the app ‘Hit the Button’. All you need to do is type this into Google!

We are very excited to be learning about the Bronze Age this term. Similar to the Stone Age, the Bronze Age is so called as all of the weapons, artefacts and jewellery that the people made were supposedly of bronze!

The children will participate in Bronze Age activities such as weaving and will have a good go at sketching lots of different Bronze Age artefacts.

Our history lessons will be devoted to educating the children of life during the Bronze Age and compare life now to how it was then to give a real perspective of the living conditions.

Feel free to complete any extra research or activities on the Bronze Age, many of which can be found on the internet. You may even want to show your extra research and activities to the class!

Have fun!