Welcome to Acorns' Class Page

Welcome to the Acorn's class page.  Here you will find lots of information about what we are doing in school and the different topics that we are learning.

We are so excited to welcome our new Year 3s and to welcome back our Year 4s. We have got a year of fantastic topics ahead of us as well as lots of brilliant events too.

This term we will be investigating the tragic tale of the Titanic. We will be looking at how a person's status affected their living arrangements, the type of food and entertainment that were available and what happened on that fateful night in 1912.

Swimming will start again on the second Monday back and we have PE on Friday afternoons. Please remember to wear the correct P.E. kit (white t-shirt, black shorts or joggers, trainers and an unbranded plain black or red hoodie).

Thank you for your support in ensuring that our children look smart for school and external sporting events.

English

In English this term we will be writing letters and looking into how travelogues are created.  In our letters we will be putting ourselves in place of people on the Titanic and sending letters home to our loved ones. This will help us to learn more about the people on board and also investigate the difference between formal and informal letters.

In our reading, we will be focusing on The Titanic, looking at different genres of writing, both fiction and non-fiction. To do this we will be using our VIPERS skills (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval, sequencing and summarising) to look at challenging texts with more depth of understanding.

Not only that, we will also be building up our reading, writing and SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar) skills which will build to help us become the best writers!

Maths

In Maths Acorns will spend the term investigating place value. Year 3s will be looking at numbers up to 1000, investigating the value of each part of the number and working with base ten, place value charts and counters to deepen their understanding.  Year 4s will be doing the same but with numbers up to 10,000.  This is a really important part of understanding number, spotting patterns and correcting mistakes so we can't wait to get started.

As a school, we are also partaking in a Maths Mastery programme which will give all the children the opportunity to investigate patterns and recognise the important links in maths. This means that we will have one day a week where we solve puzzles and answer open ended questions which will make maths even more fun!

Year 4s have their Multiplication Tables Check this year, so there will be a strong focus on learning their times tables up to 12 x 12 and we will be sending home cards to help them build fluency.  There will also be TTRockstars club, which is open to Year 3s and 4s on Tuesdays after school.

Science

In Science this term, we are investigating forces and magnets.  We will be investigating about pushes and pulls and how movement occurs because of these two forces.  We will also be looking at magnets and learning about poles, attraction and repulsion and how magnets help us with our everyday lives.

We will also be finding out about what makes a metal magnetic and which types of metal will stick to a magnets by doing experiments.

Topic

In Topic this term we will be looking at the the Titanic.  A combination of bad luck and over confidence meant that a large number of people lost their lives.

We will be finding out all about the construction of the Titanic and why it was described as 'unsinkable'. We will also be constructing our own model of the Titanic using the original plans and ratio to make a scaled down version.

We will be comparing the different classes of travel and the foods that were available and using maps to follow the intended route of the Titanic as it set out on its maiden voyage.

We will use primary and secondary sources to create our own fact files sharing what we have learnt.