Year 3/4 Meteorite Class
Welcome to Meteorite Class and the start of a new school year!
Meet the team:
Mrs K Gittins (Class Teacher)
Mrs Rowlands (Teaching Assistant)
Mrs Joynes (1:1 Teaching Assistant)
Here you will find our newsletters, photos and any important information about our class. Please pop back here to see what we have been doing during the term and to find out what is coming up.
Important Class Information
PE Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays: Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.
Reading Books: reading books will be changed on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Homework: A homework grid will be added to the website by 13th September and is due in on Monday 21st October.
Dates
WB 16th Sept-Clubs start
21st September-Community fun day
14th October Harvest Open Morning
22nd October-Parents evening late 5-8pm
24th October-Parents evening early 3:30-6:00pm
25th October-Inset day
Curriculum
Our topic this term is 'Explosive Planet!' This is an exciting topic looking at the structure of our planet to understand why we get volcanoes and earthquakes. Children will use a map of the world to locate where major earthquakes and volcanoes occur and how these can affect settlements and the people living near them in geography. In science, we will look and compare different rocks and try to group them. We will then explore how soil is formed from rocks to include the formation of fossils.
English
In English, children will be writing a non-chronological report to describe what volcanoes and earthquakes are and the effect they have on settlements, with the help of their geographical knowledge.
Maths
Children will be visiting number and place value where the children will be recapping their previous skills before moving onto the Year 4 skills.
Reading: Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and complete the reading task in the reading journal. Books should be changed regularly. Books are changed on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Maths Passport: Regular practise of Maths Passport targets helps pupils to retain knowledge and helps them to utilise these facts in other mathematical learning.
Times Tables: It is important all pupils are learning the timetables up to the 12 times table and know these by the end of year 4.
Useful websites for times table practise:
Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any queries.