Welcome to Emerald Class!

Greetings and salutations!  Welcome to the Emerald class page!

This year is going to be an exciting journey of growth, learning, and discovery! This year, your child will continue to build on all the skills they have developed so far, while gaining new knowledge and experiences that will help them become even more confident and independent learners. We will be exploring a wide range of subjects, designed to help your child grow academically, socially, and creatively. Every lesson is an opportunity to challenge yourself, ask questions, and embrace new ideas. Let’s make this year one to remember as we work together, support one another, and shine bright like emeralds! 

In addition to myself, we will be joined every morning by Mrs Ferbyhough as well as Mrs Tomlinson who will be taking the class on a Monday afternoon.  Our PE lessons for this half term will take place onTuesday and Wednesday.  This half term our dance lessons will be led by a dance specialist who will be teaching the children the dance skills that reklate to the lower KS2 PE curriculum. 

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.  Each week Facebook and Twitter will include ifnromation on what the children have been learning so please to ensure to check each week!

As Writers...

Our writting focus will be on The Fossil Girl:  Mary Anning's Discovery by Catherine Brighton 

This captivating picture book tells the true story of 10-year-old Mary Anning who, nearly 200 years ago, discovered the first complete fossil of an Ichthyosaurus, or fish lizard, now in the Natural History Museum.

During this unit, Year 3 will learn:

• Build an increasing rtange of sentence structures
• Use adverbs to express time, place and cause
• Use headings and sub-headings to aid presentation
• Assess the effectiveness of own and others' writing

Year 4 will learn:

• Expand noun phrases by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases
• Build an incresing range of sentence structures
• Choose nouns or pronouns appropirately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition
• Indicate possession by using possessive apostraphe with plural nouns
• The grammatical difference between plural and possessive 's'

As Readers...

This half term in our shared read we will be reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes 

The Iron Man tells the story of a mysterious and towering metal giant who appears unexpectedly, causing fear and confusion. After befriending a young boy named Hogarth, the Iron Man becomes a hero, using his strength and courage to save the world from a powerful space creature. This captivating tale explores themes of friendship, understanding, and redemption, making it a timeless story for children and adults alike.

As mathematicians...

This half term we will be focusing on addition & subtraction as well as multiplication & division

Year 3 will learn to:

• recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables
• write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division using the multiplication tables that they know, including for two-digit numbers times one-digit numbers, using mental and progressing to formal written methods
• solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to  objects
• measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m/cm/mm); mass (kg/g); volume/capacity (l/ml)
• measure the perimeter of simple 2-D shapes
• count up and down in tenths; recognise that tenths arise from dividing an object into 10 equal parts and in dividing one-digit numbers or quantities by 10
• recognise, find and write fractions of a discrete set of objects: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
• recognise and use fractions as numbers: unit fractions and non-unit fractions with small denominators
• recognise and show, using diagrams, equivalent fractions with small denominators
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Year 4 will learn to:

• recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
• use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together 3 numbers
• recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
• multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout
• solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two-digit numbers by 1 digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects
• convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute]
• measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres
• find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares
• estimate, compare and calculate different measures
• recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions
• count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by 100 and dividing tenths by 10
• solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number
• add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
• round decimals with 1 decimal place to the nearest whole number
• compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to 2 decimal places

As historians...

This half term, we will be answering the question:

Why was the industrial revolution important to Britain? 

In this unit, the children will learn about the Industrial Revolution, a transformative period in Britain’s history. They will explore what the Industrial Revolution was, when it happened, and how it marked a shift from rural to industrial societies.  They will learn how key inventions and technologies like the steam engine and spinning jenny revolutionised industries and daily life.  They will also look at the role of factories and cities, examining urbanisation and the growth of industrial centres in Britain.  The impact on children and working families will also be a focus, including challenging working conditions and the introduction of early reforms.They will gain an understanding on the Industrial Revolution's influence on modern industry, technology, and society.

Our study will include opportunities to:

As scientists...

This half term, Year 3 will be focusing on forcees & magnets.  They will learn to:

• compare how things move on different surfaces
• notice that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance
• observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others
• compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials
• describe magnets as having 2 poles
• predict whether 2 magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing

Year 4 will be focusing on sound  They will learn to:

• identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
• recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear
• find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it
• find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it
• recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases