Curriculum Overview Leaflet Year 3 Autumn 2015 4

How to support your child’s learning at home: • Listen to your child read for 10 minutes every day.

• Help them to learn their times tables.

• Ensure that your child completes their homework.

• Provide your child with a quiet place to work/read.

Adults who work with us: Miss Moffitt 4 Willow Teacher Mrs Foote 4 Sycamore Teacher Mr Heseldon 4 Chestnut Teacher Miss White TA/PE Mrs Shah TA Mr Pearce TA/PE Mrs Aslam Miss Ahssan

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If you have any concerns about your child and wish to discuss them please contact us on:

01282 612063 Or visit: www.lomeshaye.lancs.sch.uk

Don’t forget that your child needs their PE kit in school at all times.

Homework goes home on a Friday and it due in by Tuesday.

Spellings go home on Friday to be tested the following week.

Lomeshaye Junior School Norfolk St Nelson Lancashire BB9 6HH

Curriculum Overview Year 4 Autumn Term 1

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Literacy: Literacy: Children will start the year by reading a

Childrenof will start the year selection fairy tales.

Theyby willreading gather a selection of fairy tales.

They will gather ideas in preparation for them to write their ideas in preparation forathem write their own adapted version of fairy to tale. version of awe fairy Inown the adapted second half of term willtale. create In the second half all of term will create information leaflets aboutwe rivers.

This information leaflets all about rivers.

This will link closely to our creative curriculum will link to visit. our creative curriculum topic andclosely our river topic and our river visit.

Science: Science: Our focus this half term is based on the

Our focus this half term based on the human body.

Children willisbe developing human body.

Children will be developing their understanding of teeth and oral their understanding of from teeththis, andchildren oral hygiene.

Following on hygiene.

Following on from this, children will be learning what happens to the food will they be learning whatstudying happenshow to the that eat through thefood that theysystem eat through studying how the digestive works. digestive system works.

Investors In Pupils: Investors In Pupils: To encourage children to take ownership

Totheir encourage children takebeen ownership for own learning wetohave for their own learning we have focusing on their individual rolesbeen and focusing on their individual roles and responsibilities within the classroom. responsibilities within classroom.

They have created theirthe own targets and They have created their own targets and worked together to develop Class worked together to develop Class Charters.

Charters.

Maths: Maths: Throughout this half term we will be

Throughout half termround we will beorder learning how this to partition, and learning how to partition, round and four digit numbers including decimals.order four digitwill numbers including decimals.

Children use their knowledge of Children will use their knowledge addition and subtraction to find the of addition and subtraction difference of two numbers.to find the difference of two numbers.

We will also learn the properties of 2D We3D willshapes also learn of 2D and andthe sortproperties them and 3D shapes and sort them accordingly. accordingly.

Together we will use and apply our newly Togetherskills, we will apply our newly acquired to use solveand mathematical acquired skills, to solve mathematical problems. problems.

Visits: Visits: To support our creative curriculum work

Torivers, support creative work on theour children willcurriculum visit a local on rivers, the children will visit a local river. river.

P.E. P.E. This Half Term, your child will be taught Creative Curriculum: Creative Curriculum: Towards the end of the half term,

Towardswill thebeend of the about half term, children learning the water children will be learning about water cycle and how rivers are formed.theThey cycle and how rivers are formed. They will demonstrate their understanding by will demonstrate their understanding by creating their own river model. creating their own river model.

This Half Term, your child will be taught by a professional dance instructor. by a professional instructor.

Please ensure thatdance your child has the Please ensure that your child has the correct PE kit with their name inside, and correct PE kit with their name inside, and that it is in school for every lesson. Ideally that it is in school forinevery lesson.

Ideally PE kits should be left school and only PE kits should be left in school and only taken home during holidays taken home during holidays No jewelry is allowed during PE lessons.

No jewelry is allowed during PE lessons.