Lower KS2 - Years 3 & 4
Rowan, Willow and Elder
Welcome to Rowan, Willow and Elder
Mrs Jennie Edwards, Mrs Sarah Evans, Mrs Louise Barrett and Mrs Naomi Williams warmly welcome you to Rowan, Willow and Elder, where year 3 and 4 children learn together. The children work extremely hard to be ready, willing and able in all that we do. All classes in the Year 3 and 4 team are supported by teaching assistants: Miss Laura Bibby, Mrs Amanda Howlett, Mrs Alex Fishlock, Mrs Charlotte Kemp and Mrs Nicola Miller.
Learning in Rowan, Willow and Elder
We follow a broad and balanced curriculum which is relevant, engaging and fun! Wherever possible, a cross-curricular approach to learning is used to ensure that children are able to make connections between other subjects and the world around them. In order to do this, we facilitate discussions around questions, explicitly teaching, modelling and practising the following skills:
-Being a good listener
-Communicating clearly
-Justifying opinions
-Questioning assumptions
-Thinking hypothetically
In Years 3 and 4, we too build on and develop our skills and knowledge around the characteristics we can learn to enable us to be effective learners through our whole school guiding principles of being ‘Ready, Willing and Able’ in ourselves, our school and the world. We explicitly teach these, through all learning contexts, to establish and embed the essential skills required to become lifelong learners.
We value a close home-school partnership, so please feel free to contact the class teacher through messenger on SEESAW and we will be happy to discuss, share and celebrate your child’s ongoing progress.
Homework is set on FRIDAY and is due in the following THURSDAY.
Summer 1 2024
Summer 1 learning in Literacy, Science, Computing and DT is linked around ‘animal adaptations’. We will be producing an informal factual ‘Guess Who’ page based on our whole class text ‘Book of Bones’. We will be learning desktop publishing skills to publish this and an art piece linked to the animal and its environment.
At the end of this term we hope to have a Doods (cross between recorder and clarinet) music presentation.
Our Viking topic this term has kicking off with making our own Viking hoard of treasure and giving ourselves a Viking name!
Look out Wimbledon, we are also training up the next generation of tennis players in PE.
Spelling Shed, TTRS and home reading continue this term.
March 2022
The year 3/4 children have been busy experimenting with collagraphs as part of their Art curriculum.
January 2022
The year 3/4 children have been exploring what refraction is, as part of the science curriculum!
The children have started learning how to play the Djembe and exploring different rhythmic patterns to play!
November 2021
The year 3/4 children have been exploring the different types of rocks! We have enjoyed looking at examples and identifying the features!
October 2021
The year 3/4 children have been learning how to read and perform formal notation. We have been listening to gospel and soul music! As part of PE, we have continued to work on the skills needed to play tag rugby.
September 2021
Macmillan coffee and read morning was such a fantastic way to start the day! Thank you so much to everyone who came! The year 3/ 4 children have also been busy carrying out some exciting science experiments this week, investigating how particles move!
5th - 9th July 2021
This week year 3/4 have been exploring fruit and vegetables in art. First they looked at the forms and textures of the fruit and veg on the outside and inside and produced careful observational drawings. Then they used view finders to create clay tile designs from their drawings. The results were great!
28th June - 2nd July 2021
The year 3/4 children have worked incredibly hard this week on their letters, which are addressed to Mr Boris Johnson and Mr Ben Bradshaw! These letters raise concerns about the ocean and climate crisis and we hope to get a response back!
21st - 25th June 2021
The year 3/4 team have been creative this week, using the green screen to create weather forecasts as part of their geography exploration lesson! The future looks bright for this lot!
14th - 18th June 2021
The year 3/4 children have been busy exploring clay this week; learning new skills and vocabulary in the process. The children are very excited about making ‘fruit clay tiles’ this half term.
7th - 11th June 2021
The year 3/ 4 children are back with a bang! Outdoor learning as part of our maths lesson; collecting data to represent on pictograms and bar charts!
24th - 28th May 2021
The year 3/4 have finished their beautiful poetry and artwork to match! They have been busy editing their Ludwell Valley photos as part of computing skills too! An amazing half term everyone!
17th - 21st May 2021
The year 3/ 4 children had a wonderful time on their trip to Ludwell Valley Park; capturing the most beautiful photos for their ICT project. The children have also been investigating water transportation in Science!
10th - 14th May 2021
The year 3/4 children have been learning about the Holy Spirit as part of the RE curriculum. We have also started to see some fantastic growth with the sunflower plants! Very exciting!
4th - 7th May 2021
The children in Year 3/4 are loving Rounders as part of their PE lessons! They have also been busy dissecting the parts of flowering plants!
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