Welcome to Oak Class Year 3/4
Mrs. Woodhouse is the class teacher for Oak Class Monday-Thursday with Mrs McLauchlan on a Friday. Mrs Hilton, Mrs Allaway and Miss Holdstock are Oak Class teaching assistants.
Upcoming trips
On Monday 10th March we will attend the Science Show at Sevenoaks school as part of their STEAM week. The children will need to be dropped off at Duke's Meadow car park by 9am and collected to be returned to school at 10.25am.
On Monday 24th March, Oak will be taking part in love to Dance at the Stag Theatre. We will have a rehearsal in the morning before returning to school. Later in the afternoon, we will all go to the stag for two shows. Details will be in the letter sent out.
On Thursday 27th March Oak Class will be visiting Horton Kirby Education Centre for our River Study day. Children will need high wellies and waterproofs as we will be entering the river. More details and timings to follow in a letter.
WEekly Spellings -
Children will be given spellings on a Tuesday during our spelling lesson. They will bring home a copy of them to learn. These will be tested the following Tuesday. Please do help support your child with spelling practice at home.
Please see attached handy tips for learning your spellings Here.
English:
This term our English learning is based around the book, Oliver and the Seawigs. We will be; reading this as a whole-class, with children having copies of the book to read together, making predictions about the story, drawing comparisons with other stories, exploring the characters and setting, as well as writing an information text. We explore this story bit by bit, so please do not look at this story with your child as it will spoil the surprise and affect their learning outcomes.
Reading:
We encourage all children to read for 20 minutes a day. There is a reccomended reading list on the school website. Children are welcome to borrow books from the class reading corner to enjoy at home but please do remember to return them once finished as our reding area is looking a little sparce in some areas. Some children will be given a levelled reading book to read at home too. please ensure these are read through and discussed at least twice before returning to exchange them.
Maths:
This term our focus is on division. Children will be dividing numbers upto 4 digits by a 1 digit number. We will be looking at exchanging and remainders. Including a focus on the 4 and 8 times tables for Year 3 and the x8,x6,x7 and x9 for Year 4. We will then move onto Fractions. Looking at the whole, fractions as parts of the whole, developing an understanding of unit and non-unit fractions and comparing fractions.Times Tables:
All children in Oak class will benefit from continuous practice of their times tables at home. Please support the children to try and practise these regularly throughout the week. There are plenty of games on purple mash, and on the sites below. In addition, there are wonderful songs on youtube that we use in class, ask your child to show them to you so you can all sing along at home! Perhaps, when you're in the car/walking to school you could quiz your child. There are so many ways to practise, but the children will only know them off by heart if they do practise them!
Year 3 are expected to know their x2 x3 x4 x5 x8 x10 by the end of the year.
Year 4 will have the Multiplication Check in June 2025, they are expected to know all their times tables up to 12 x 12 and be able to answer in 6s per question!
For additional maths practise, please see the link below to Topmarks and Maths Frame where there are a wealth of games to aid children's fluency in all four operations along with shape, direction, measurement and fractions!
Science:
This term the children will study the digestive system. With a detailed look at the organs involved in our digestive system and their functions.
PE:
Please come in full PE kit on Wednesdays. Please remember PE fleeces/jumpers if cold alongside a waterproof coat. All Jewelry and earrings must be removed or covered over with microporous tape, which they should bring to school themselves.
Children do take part in PE in all weathers.
MFL: we are continuing basic conversations and how to describe our family members.
Year 4 will be doing DT at Sevenoaks School whilst Year 3 will be looking at techniques to create a volcano panting.
We will be studying coding, we will look at creating algorithms and debugging.
This term our topic is Rivers. we will be investigating the physical features of Rivers, the water cycle and a local River study.