Year 3/4 As Theologists, we will be answering

the key question:

Celebration of Learning
Term 1 Would celebrating Divali at home and in the
community bring a feeling of belonging to a
To invite the parents to view the children’s paintings and writing Hindu child?
around our theme: Kaboom!

101 Opportunity

As Athletes, we will be taught our PE les- Learn the Lords’ Prayer

sons by Bristol Rugby.
Kaboom!
As Artists, we will be
creating paintings of
As Technologists, we will be revising skills from previous Volcanoes, to link
year groups such as: saving work, typing skills and As Musicians, we will learning and performing ‘Let your with our theme
searching the internet safely.
spirit fly’ ’Kaboom!’

As Geographers we will be understanding:

 What a volcano is
 How volcanoes and mountains are formed
 The difference between a volcano and a mountain
 How to use maps and atlases to locate volcanoes and mountains.
 How to locate the Tropics, the Equator and the Northern/Southern Hemisphere
 How volcanoes impact on communities
 Why people live near volcanoes
 How to research a mountain range in Europe and compare this with a mountain range in the UK.
  As Mathematicians, this term we will be fo-
cusing on
As Writers, this term we will be focusing on:

Wk1&2: Poems Number and Place Value

Wk3-Wk5: Text based unit Problem Solving
Wk6-7: Newspapers Addition/Subtraction
Wk8: Grammar Fractions
Handwriting Time
Spelling of key high frequency words
Demarcation of sentences with full stops, capitals, question and exclamation marks (See objective detail on the website)
Use capital letters for people, places, days of the week and the personal pronoun ‘I’
Use expanded noun phrases for description and specification

Spelling:

Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words of more than one syllable
The /I/ sound spelt ‘y’
The /^/ sound spelt ‘ou’
More prefixes
Grammar
Expanded noun phrase
Suffixes & prefixes As readers, we are focusing on maintaining frequent and
Cohesion consistent reading at home to meet our reading challenge.
Subordinating conjunction
Coordinating conjunction
Clause
Comma
Verbs