Kingfishers

Our teacher is Miss Boyagis. We are a mixed class of 28 Year 3/4 children.

We have PE on Thursdays and Fridays.  Please ensure that your child has  their Dinton PE kit, suitable for indoor and outdoor lessons and a pair of trainers. 

Reading books and records must be brought in daily. Children should be reading with an adult and doing times table practise every day.

Spellings will be set every Monday, to be brought back the following Monday.

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English

We are sentence stacking a holiday brochure, thinking carefully about how we can use persuasive language in our writing. In SPAG, we are consolidating direct speech. 

Book Club

In Book Club, we are reading Stitch. 

Maths

Our topic is Multiplication and division. This week we are multiplying 3 numbers to find efficient methods to multiply, to investigate scaling, to find correspondence problems and multiply a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number.

All activities will include reasoning and problem solving.

Times tables:

Year 3: x3, x5

Year 4: x7

Please remember to revise times tables regularly at home as well as in school.

Year 4 will have the statutory MTC (Multiplication Tables Check) in June in which the response time is 6 seconds!

Science

Science topic: Fossils

We are learning about what fossils are and how they are formed. 

Religious Education

RE topic: How do festivals and worship show what matters to a Muslim?

This week, we are exploring the vocabulary of our topic and exploring what festivals mean to muslims. 

Geography

Geography topic: Why are rainforests important to us?

We are exploring what the Amazon Rainforest is like. 

DT

DT topic: Cushions

This week, we are practising cross-stich and running stitch. We are also exploring applique. 

Computing

RE topic: Programming on Scratch
Taught by Mr Howard