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 Nen and the Lonely Fisherman by Ian Eagleton and James Mayhew.  

This is a heartwarming story about a merman named Nen who, feeling lonely in the ocean, meets a kind fisherman named Ernest, and together they overcome challenges to find friendship and love despite their different worlds.

During this unit, Year 3 will learn:

• Use conjunctions to express time, place and cause
• Use adverbs to express time
• Use a or an according to whether the next word begins with a vowel or a consonant
• Create characters, settings and plot in a narrative
• Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech

Year 4 will learn:

• Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions inclduing when, if, because although
• Use Standard English for verb inflections 
• Build varied and rich vocabulary
• Use and prunctuate direct speech

As Readers...

This half term in our shared read we will be reading The Windrush Story by The Literacy Company.  

The Windrush story is about people from the Caribbean who came to Britain in 1948 to help rebuild the country after World War II. They travelled on a ship called the 'Empire Windrush'. Many faced challenges, like finding homes and jobs, but they worked hard and helped shape modern Britain. By reading this, the children will gain a better understanding of the important contributions and the struggles the people from the Carribbean faced.

As mathematicians...

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

Year 3 will learn to:

• add and subtract numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
• estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers

• 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 m objects.

Year 4 will learn to:

• add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction where appropriate
• estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers

• 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 three 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 one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects.

As geographers...

This half term, we will be answering the question:

How do volcanoes affect the lives of people who live around them?

Our study will include opportunities to:

• Learn about how earth is formed
• Learn how a volcano is formed
• Understand what happens during an eruption
• Identify where in the world are volcanoes formed
• Understand how volcanoes impact the environment and the people  

As scientists...

This half term, Year 3 will be focusing on animals and humas.  They will learn to:

• identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement

Year 4 will be focusing on states of matter.  They will learn to:

• compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases
• observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C)
• identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.