Years 3/4
Mr Gardner – Class Teacher
Mrs McCormick – Teaching Assistant
Miss M Saunders – Teaching Assistant
Mrs E Glenn – Teaching Assistant
- Morning 8.30 to 10.20
- Break 10.20 to 10.35
- Mid Morning 10.35 to 12.30
- Lunch 12.30 to 1.15
- Afternoon 1.15 to 3.00
Lessons
Lambton class is all about learning, working hard, trying our best and having fun.We start the day with Maths, where we will be focusing on Place Value, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, solving word problems and a brief insight in to fractions.
When maths finishes, we then have a 15-minute break. We try to include a 10-minute times tables practice into every lesson to help recap and develop our understanding. We are currently working on the three times tables.
After break, we return to lessons and start English. In English we have been recognising different word classes (in particular nouns, verbs and adjectives), how to punctuate sentences correctly, creating our own set of instructions and how to produce a descriptive piece of writing. So far, we have started to create a setting and character description based on our class book “The owl who was afraid of the dark.”
During the afternoon we have a range of topics we have been focusing on. In science we have been learning about Forces and Magnets. Some of the picture show the experiments we have conducted so far. These include; a push pull experiment, a magnetic strength experiment using paper clips, a test to understand magnetic attraction and repulsing and a test of friction using different materials. We now plan on testing up thrust using a parachute and then using graphs and bar charts to display our findings.
In History we have been learning about the Ancient Romans and we have looked at their way of life, the different roles within their civilisation, their clothes and their series of invasions. We are hoping to have a class visit around the Roman remains in Chester-Le-Street where we hope to be able to get inside the Anker house that is attached to the church to see some Roman artefacts.
Friday is our end of week test day where we do a times table test, spelling test and arithmetic test. We keep track of scores and anyone who has beaten their previous score, achieved full marks or made huge progress gets entered in to a race with the chance to win a prize. Also, on Friday we have a prize for whoever in the class has ended that week with the most Dojo points.
The rest of our afternoons are spent learning about; different styles of art, designing in DT, developing out ICT skills, learning about different Religions and staying fit in P.E.
