Years 3 & 4

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Year 3/4 Autumn Term 2023

Welcome back!

We hope that you have had an enjoyable and restful Summer holiday.

Our new Summer Term topic is 'Prehistoric Britain'. We will be travelling back in time to find out what Britain was like during the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

As the school term develops, we will post information and examples of the children’s work on the Year 3 and 4 pages of the school website or our school Twitter account.

English

Literacy and language

Fiction:

The children will:

discuss the importance of specific characters
explore the characters to understand their actions
understand playscript conventions, including stage directions.

Non-fiction:

The children will:

understand key features of explanation texts
show their understanding by summarising explanations they have read
expand their vocabulary by learning some technical language and finding definitions of words they don't know.

We will also complete units based around the story 'Stone age Boy' by Sitosha Kitamura

End of year 4 expectations for English.

Þ I can spell most words correctly. (Please speak to your child’s class teacher about the Y3 and Y4 National Curriculum spelling lists)

Þ I can write neatly, legibly and accurately, maintaining a joined style.

Þ I can use paragraphs to organise my writing although may not always be accurate

Þ I can use fronted adverbials and use a comma afterwards.

Þ I can evaluate and edit by proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences.

Þ I can extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although.

Þ I can use sophisticated conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause.

Þ I can use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense. Present perfect tense is used for activities that started in the past but are still true now, or have an effect on what is happening now. My friend Kashaan has lived in this town for five years. We have been best friends all that time

Þ I can use inverted commas accurately.

Þ I can use the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular and irregular plurals e.g. girls’, boys’, children’s.

Author Study

Each term we will be focusing on a famous children’s Author. Our Key Author this term is Dick King Smith.

We hope that the children will enjoy reading his texts and completing some of the activities we have planned for them so that they are enthused about reading!

Mathematics

These are the units of study we will be studying this term.