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Year 3 and 4 learning journey

The children in Years 3 and 4 recently had the opportunity to demonstrate their calculating skills and knowledge of money.

Miss Stewart raided her cupboards at home and brought in various bags of shopping, filled with different items, which each amounted to a different total. The children had to work together in their table groups to calculate the amount of each bag and identify which denomination of money would be best used to pay for the items. In addition, the children then had to identify how much change would be received once each bag of shopping had been paid for. As you can see from the pictures below the children engaged with the task and had a lot of fun using real life objects in their maths activity. Miss Stewart then got to take her bags of shopping home to refill her empty cupboards!

In Year 4 Maths, the children had to identify and order tricky Roman Numerals. The children then used their calculating skills to solve a range of problems involving Roman Numerals.

Year 4 recently had the opportunity to demonstrate their boxing skills courtesy of a visit from St Paul’s Boxing Academy. The children practised their jabs, hooks and upper-cuts and had lots of fun.

Science in year 3 and year 4 Evidence power point

In English we have been exploring the feelings a soldier in WWII may well have experienced. Children then got into role and conducted a ‘Hotseating’ activity whereby children answered a range of questions from their peers.

Here are some of the questions the children posed:

What do you miss most about home?
What was the worst thing you have seen happen on the battlefield?
Did you lose any friends?
How did losing your friends make you feel?
How did you spend your time between battles?
What food was in your ration packs?
What are your hopes?

The children in Year 4 thought about their future career aspirations and what they would like to be in the future. We set ourselves some goals and identified the necessary steps to take to achieve them.

Here are a list of some of our future career aspirations:

Hairdresser
Policeman
Beautician
Boxer
Marine Biologist
Scientist
Fireman
Footballer
Games Inventor

The children in year 3 considered the concept of Bullying and the ways in which to deal with difficult situations. We created posters with a ‘Super Hero’ theme with messages on how to deal with issues should they arise.

We recently considered what it is that makes us British. Is it the tea we drink, the fact that we have our own monarch, the football team we support or that we queue to be served in the shops which makes us British? The children had to arrange the criteria they were given in accordance with how they considered them important towards our British way of life and how they portray us as being British citizens in the modern world.

In English, the children in year 4 were describing a range of settings whilst drawing upon their senses. The children worked alongside their peers to imagine what they might be able to hear, touch/feel, see, smell as well as taste in specific settings so as to help them include a more detailed and descriptive account within their own story writing.