This week in 3/4

The children are thoroughly enjoying making their Roman gladii during Design and Technology lessons. They are rolling, cutting, sticking and pasting with great enthusiasm and can't wait to see the finished article.
Miss Welsh, Mrs Devlin & Mr Greenfield 

Help with Project Lessons

This half-term during our project lessons we will be making Roman swords (Gladii). We would greatly appreciate your support with this activity by sending in the insides of kitchen and clingfilm rolls. Thank you.
3/4 team

Happy Half Term!

Year 3 / 4 Half-term Homework

It’s been a busy and tiring half-term and everyone is looking forward to a well-earned rest. . However, during the half-term we would like the children to continue to practise their reading, spelling and times tables. In addition to this we would like to remind the children to complete tasks from the previous blog. The children can also enter a Sumdog competition that Mr Richards has set up and design a shield for their house.

We would like to thank the children for all their hard work this half term and hope you all have a lovely holiday.

Miss Welsh, Mrs Devlin & Mr Greenfield

Roman Homework Menu

Over the half term, the children have been learning about Romans. This includes areas such as baths and villas. Below is some extra homework for the children complete. This homework is optional but all work would be greatly appreciated.

English Challenges

Maths Challenges

Write a menu for a Roman meal in a wealthy family - e.g. Dormouse, dates, grapes. Write a diary as if you are a Roman soldier – what you do in the day, moving to place to place, practising with weapons and cleaning your equipment. Write factual information about a famous Roman Emperor – Choose from – Julius Caesar, Nero, Claudius, Caliqula If you were a Roman Emperor what laws and rules would you make – Remember you are living a long time ago with no electricity!! Write your own Kenning about a Roman soldier, an Emperor or a Gladiator.

Using Roman numerals write 10- 20 different dates in time that are important either to you and your family or in history. Write a times table Rap using Roman numerals. Time hunt – how many different ways is time displayed around your home? You can draw (using a pencil) or take photographs of different types of time and clocks. Statistics – do a survey and record your data in a tally chart then draw as a bar chart. Ask your family about what is their favourite Roman invention. Make your own Roman coins – design your own numbers and amounts.

Next Week in Year 3/4

Next week in Opal, Moonstone and Garnet we will be continuing our work on creating a Roman narrative. The children began this earlier in the week and have included information in their story from what they have learnt in their Project lessons. In Maths, we will be continuing to focus on identifying patterns within calculations ranging from multiples of numbers and adding/subtracting 10,100 from any given number.

As always, we recommend that the children continue to practise their multiplication facts at home. We hope you have a good weekend.

Year 3/4 Team

THANK YOU

A big thank you to the children for all their hard work this year. We wish them all a happy and safe holiday and good luck as they move to their new classes.
Mr Richards, Mr Greenfield, Mrs Devlin, Miss Welsh
P.S. Remember to visit the library and read all about the Romans ready for the Autumn term!

Opal Excavation 2017

A big thank you to all the children and parents for bringing equipment/tools to the school that allowed Opal class to carry out an excavation. As you would imagine, there were plenty of items discovered by the children. Click on the link below to access photographs taken on the day.

Many thanks,

Mr Greenfield & Mr Richards

Opal Excavation 2017