Elm Class
Year 3 and 4 - Miss Beaumont and Miss Shaw
English
Elm class will begin the term by studying 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens (Retold by Gill Tavner). We will write a biography about Charles Dickens using the third person and past tense. We will then learn the skills needed to write a narrative including dialogue, expanded noun phrases and complex sentences, to support us in writing a narrative about a key scene from the story.
Maths
The children will develop their mathematical understanding through a range of topics, building confidence in problem-solving and reasoning.
This term, we will be learning place value, including representing and partitioning numbers up to 1000 and 10,000. We will then order and compare numbers and find 10, 100 and 1000 more or less than a number. We will complete the term by learning to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000 and use this for estimating.
Science
In Science, Elm will be learning about cycles in nature. We will look at the seasons and consider the seasonal changes in plants and trees. We will look at the features of deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering and non-flowering plants and the life cycles of animals including frogs and butterflies. We will learn about metamorphosis and growth in nature and why some animals migrate and others hibernate in winter.
Art
In Art, we will be studying still life and form. We will learn that a still-life is a picture of something that does not move. We will study the work of Cezanne and Morandi, particularly looking at how they have created form and depth in their art using tone and shadow. We will learn to create different tones using cross-hatching and different shading techniques
RE
Our RE learning this term will consider the questions ‘What is religion?’ and ‘What is spirituality?’ We will learn about what the term ‘religion’ means and how it differs from 'faith'. We will also consider whether all people view religion in the same way, and whether some people’s definitions may be different to our own. We will then learn about Christian and Sikh views on spirituality as well as non-religious perspectives about spirituality, before considering our own views about this topic.
History
In History this half-term, we will be learning about the Stone Age and the Iron Age. We will learn that the earliest humans arrived in Britain around 900,000 years ago, when Britain was still part of mainland Europe. Britain remained part of Europe until the Mesolithic period, where it broke off from Europe and became an island. The Neolithic Period marks the beginning of farming which revolutionised life in Britain. People at this time began chopping down trees to farm crops such as wheat and barley and kept cattle, sheep and pigs.We will learn that these periods covered around 10,000 years and ended when the Romans arrived in Britain around 43CE.
