YEAR 3/4 GALLERY
Welcome to the Year 3/4 Page.
This half term we are focusing on the topic question - How has Upton Snodsbury changed for a child?
A HUGE dinosaur came in to school today and gobbled everyone up! They didn't like the shoes though so spat them out. Mrs Mayo said that it looked like the classroom after a PE lesson.
(This message has been written as part of an E Safety lesson to show how we can not trust everything that is on the internet!)
This half term we answered the question - Why do we need bees?
June 2019
WOW! What an amazing performance of 'Too Bee or not to Bee' a production that was written by the children. The children excelled in their singing, dancing, recorder playing and acting. Also they made some fantastic scenery and props. Well done all, you should be very proud of yourselves.
June 2019
We have now started our new topic all about bees and have been very buzzy already! We have written our end of year show and have started to make props and learn our lines for our songs and parts. We have also been using figurative language to create some beetastic poetry and describing different scenes. In Science we have been looking at the functions of different parts of the plants
During this half term we investigated the question: Would you have built roads like the Romans did?
June 2019
Children investigated the effect of different surfaces on a car travelling down a ramp and showed off their finished roman vehicles. They were very impressive,.
June 2019
Year 4 had fun at the Bell boating regatta and learnt that if they all worked together and in time then they got faster.
May 2019
Over the last two weeks we have designed Roman vehicles and created the chassis for it out of wood. These will be sent home to finish off over the holiday as homework. We look forward to sharing them after the holiday. The children have also really enjoyed their trip to the Corinium Museum. It has also bee a very sporty time with some children representing us in a cross country and Year 4 going Bell Boating. Year 3 have also been busy with improving the school grounds and writing to local business. Photos are on the website.
In the second half of the Spring term, we looked at the question: Can you justify the importance of looking after water?
April 2019
What a fantastic end of term we have had. The children have created some amazing drama performances, dances and PowerPoints to tell the rest of the school about plastic pollution and have written to several companies and Prince Charles. We look forward to the replies. They have also though of others and cooked Hot Cross Buns which we shared with a local volunteer group which feed the homeless. We are so proud of them all - Well done Year 3 and 4.
April 2019
We took part in a dance festival with other local schools. Here is our dance based on bees.
March 2019
Year 3 and 4 have certainly discovered that plastic is not fantastic with all the damage it is doing to our world. Over the last couple of weeks, we have taken part in the BBC Blue Planet Live lesson, completed our plastic stories, debated the issue of whose fault it is that we have plastic pollution (people who use plastic or the man who invented it) and created an action plan on how we are going to make Upton Snodsbury and our world a better place. At lunchtime, we have weighed our waste and saw how much we do throw away. Following this, we have written some information leaflets for parents and we are currently creating ways to show the school what they can do to help. Our next step will be writing to local and international companies, Prince Charles and our local MP about the plastic problem as we do not want our blue planet changing to a plastic one!
March 2019
As part of our water topic we have looked at the different states that things can be and through carrying out an investigation with water, chocolate and jelly, we found out that it is temperature which causes a change in state. We then looked at the changes of state in the Water cycle and the main changes of evaporation, condensation and precipitation. In English, we have been writing a story to show the dangers of plastic in the ocean and how this affects the marine animals and in Geography we researched facts about plastic and the damage that they can have. Did you know that 8.5 billion plastic straws are thrown away in the UK every year?!
March 2019
It has been a very busy start to the half term and we have had fun starting our new topic and Book Week. As part of our topic we have looked how oil spillages can led to the death of the wildlife and started to look at other environmental issues such as the use of plastic. During book week, we created some ‘Wild Thing’ characters using images of animal body parts off the internet and then using our Art Day skills from last week, we sketched them and used watercolours and pencils to add detail. In English, we looked at what Max was like and his emotions and we compared a film version to the book. For once the film had more detail than the book!
In the first half of the Spring Term, we focused on the question -
How are products designed and marketed?February 2019
Over the last two weeks we have used our market research to design a chocolate bar or treat, make one and of course test it! We then wanted to see who the parents and the rest of the school thought had designed the best so we created adverts using Itrailer and also wrote some which would appear in newspapers. We then put all of our learning together in our teams on PowerPoint. After our presentations were ready, we organised what our teams were going to say and showed them in a sharing assembly. After the presentations, the school and parents got to vote. Everyone deserved to win as they had designed some mouth-watering treats and worked incredibly hard on their presentations but after the votes were counted PAMJEL came out victorious. Below is their winning PowerPoint and the PowerPoint created Cookietastic..
January 2019
Year 3 and 4 are still seeking revenge after Reception and Year One invaded our classroom! They tied Mrs Mayo up, put all of our names down the Zone board, took our chairs and wasted some of our whiteboard pens. Even worse, was that we had to tidy up after they had gone! They did it so we could understand what an invasion was like and could put ourselves in to the shoes of the Mayans when the Aztecs invaded them. Also during the last couple of weeks, we have started to design our chocolate bars or cookies. As part of this, we have completed market research around the school and have used this to inform our designing decisions. Next week, we are planning to make our treats so we have planned carefully what we need and what we are going to do.
January 2019
As part of our topic, we went on a visit to Cadbury world! Not only did we get to look around but we had a presentation on how they market their products. They also told us how they designed their wrappers and why they made the choices that they did. regarding packaging and flavours.
January 2019
It has only been two weeks but we have been extremely busy! In the first few days, we reflected on our learning skills and which were our strongest. We then created our own target to show which one we wanted to get better at. As part of this, we have created a question wall in the classroom. Here the children can pose a question and then the other children in the classroom can see if they can answer it. In addition we have started our new topic and we have taken a chocolate quiz, compared what life was like in 900AD in our country and where the Mayans came from and written some "treat" shape poems using a range of figurative language. Also, Well done to all of the fantastic reading over the holidays; it has been a pleasure seeing this evidenced in a lot of the reading records.
In the second half of the Autumn term we focused on the topic question -
How and why were the pyramids built?
December 2018
The children have worked extremely hard this half term and should be really proud of themselves. In the last couple of weeks, we have finished our topic by writing an explanation text on how and why the pyramids were built. The children certainty showed off their historical knowledge and lots used their writing target too. We also finished our magnet work and the children designed and made magnetic games. As a reward for all of their hard work, they baked some Christmas biscuits.
December 2018
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been focusing on magnets. We have looked at the force and how different poles of the magnet attract and repel each other. Also, we have seen which materials are magnetic. Did you know that 1p's and 2p's were not magnetic until the 1990's when steel was put in them and 10p's weren't magnetic until 2011? Using all of our magnetic knowledge, we then created questions that we would like to answer about magnets and then we planned and carried out a fair test. In the next couple of weeks, we plan to use all our magnet knowledge and Egyptian knowledge to design a magnetic game.
Some excellent reading has been happening at home too and I have loved reading the comments in the Reading Records and seeing some full Bingo boards already.
November 2018
What fun we have had the last couple of weeks mummifying each other with toilet roll. As part of this we looked
closely at the mummification process and wrote instructions for it
October 2018
At the end of the term we did a sharing assembly to the rest of the school and our parents. We shared all the work that we had created on our topic question......'How was the Stone Age different from the Iron Age?'.
October 2018
As part of the Beeline festival, we went to the University of Worcester and attended a workshop by Steve Cole. We also went to the Hive and created some dreams based on the BFG.
In the first half term we were focusing on the topic question -
How was the Stone Age different from the Iron Age?
October 2018
In History and English we have been looking at the Stone Age boy.
Using Comic Life we created our own comic based on our knowledge of the Stone Age.
September 2018
We have been busy the last few weeks with lots of team building games and treasure hunts in our Topic. In English we have been focusing on show not tell emotions. so that our work is even more interesting. Can you guess what emotions we are trying to show?
May 2018
Year 4 went Bell Boating with Year 4 from Flyford to improve our paddling skills and team work. We can't wait until we go to the gala.
May 2018
We looked at how things can be organised. We then looked at creating some branching databases. As part of this we discovered how important asking the right kind of question is!
April 2018
As well we went to the Think Tank in Birmingham. Here we took part in an under your skin workshop and got to look around areas of the museum that were relevant to our topic. There is so much to explore there and we would definitely recommend going.
April 2018
As part of our Science week, some parents and grandparents came in and took part in some investigations with us!
April 2018
After labeling the digestion system, we made it! We saw what happens to our food in our stomach and intestines before it comes out as poo!
April 2018
At the beginning of digestion, we drew what we thought happened to food from the mouth to the toilet. We then researched the answers, labelled some diagrams and after had a game to see who could order the parts of digestion the quickest.
April 2018
As part of our topic we had a map to find information about inside the body. We then used this information to answer some questions.
Year 2 and 3 are beginning to think about the residential trip next year to Malvern. Here is the last time that we went so you can see how amazing it was!
In the second half of the Spring term we looked at the topic question -
'How does Upton Snodsbury compare to Marseille?"
March 2018
We designed and painted some patterns and messages on pebbles to go in our spiritual garden in school.
March 2018
We went to a dance festival with some of the local schools. We were nervous to begin with but then had lots of fun. We also got to learn some Morris dancing.
March 2018
When comparing cities and villages, we looked at how close things would be to us in each. This included schools, shops and libraries. To do this, we found a route, used to string to measure it, measured the string and then used the scales on the map to find the actual distances.
March 2018
After researching Marseille and learning about some persuasive techniques we created some leaflets to persuade people that they should go there on holiday. They are so effective that now Mrs Mayo wants to go on holiday there!
March 2018
Using atlases, we found out facts about Marseille and Upton Snodsbury and compared them.
March 2018
For homework, we completed traffic surveys on roads by where we live. We then partnered up and compared our results.
March 2018
During Reading week, we completed a wide range of activities including: creating Reading Rivers, having a visit from Shoo Rayner, reading to different children in school and dressing up. What a busy week!
In Spring One we looked at the question: What are the similarities and differences
between light and electricity?'
February 2018
At the end of the half term, we wrote an assembly that we then shared with the school
and our families. This is the PowerPoint we made to go with it.
February 2018
Using our knowledge of opaque, translucent and transparent materials, we created some shadow puppets.
January 2018
After reading all about Theseus and the Minotaur, we created our own monsters!
January 2018
We identified materials that were reflected and then used them to make a coat which would not be suitable for
Theseus from the myth Theseus and the Minotaur.
January 2018
Our next challenge was to work out how a switch worked and then make one!
January 2018
Mrs Mayo gave us some things to try and make a light bulb light up and we had to work out how to do it.
At the start of our topic, we looked at which we thought was the most important-light or electricity. After sorting some items that uses them, we decided that light was the most important because without it, there would not be any life!
"What happens when volcanoes erupt?" was our topic question for the second half of the Autumn Term
November 2017
We composed some music to accompany the dance we have created in PE
November 2017
We made volcanoes in clay and then got them to 'erupt'!
November 2017
We have been doing practical maths to develop our skills.
October 2017
On Wednesday we dressed up as Victorians and experienced a Victorian day at school.
It was all very different to our normal school day!
This term we are focusing on the topic question -
"What was life like for Victorian children?"
October 2017
Year 3/4 football team took part in an inter school tournament at Inkberrow, this week. We were all proud of the way they played.
October 2017
We all really enjoyed our trip to the Black Country Museum where we experienced what it was like to live in Victorian Britain.
September 2017
This week we enjoyed an art's morning where we observed our faces and sketched self portraits.
May 2017
Year 3/4 visited Worcester Cathedral. They enjoyed a guided tour and a workshop on 'Why People Pray' linked to their RE question next term.
