Dosbarth Pen y Fan 

(Years 3 and Years 4)

Teachers: Mrs Steer and Miss Brian

Class LSA: Mrs Pugh

Our Big Question - What's in a book?

Religion, Values Education

We will look at the Bible, the different genres within the bible and what the Bible means to Christians. We will look at three different books from the bible and consider what we can learn about God through them. We will be looking at the Easter story and completing work on "Bread."

Humanities

We will look at how books were invented and the impact of the printing press. We will investigate books linked to Welsh heritage through a visit to the National Library of Wales. We will look at the how the bible was translated into the Welsh language and discover the epic journey made by a young girl, Mary Jones in order to get her first bible.

Literacy, Language and Communication

Through our topic "What's in a book?" we will be developing our reading, writing and oracy skills. We will be writing news reports, poems and stories. We will be reading a range of texts to develop comprehension skills.

Cymraeg

This term we will be learning about a story from the Mabinogi, "Rhonabwy's Dream." We will develop our Welsh reading skills, use Welsh to give our opinion of the story and create our own Welsh story.

Maths and Numeracy across the Curriculum

Our focus this term will be looking at Multiplication and division, length and perimeter, fractions and decimals, mass and capacity.

Science and Technology

We will be identifying common appliances that run on electricity, constructing a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. We will investigate how a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit and recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors. 

Digital Competency

We will discuss the kind of information that's private and understand that they should never give out private information online. We will learn what an algorithm is and write, use and spot patterns in algorithms a flowchart representing a solution symbolically. We will try to detect and correct (debug) mistakes in a sequence of instructions and look at breaking a sequence down by decomposition and explaining why this is useful.

Pupils will be designing and creating their own book. Following a theme of their choice, children will experience what it is like to see a book through from the initial idea, through to editing and finally publishing. This will be enhanced with a visit from a real publisher and editor who will talk to the children about the journey of a book.

Health & Wellbeing

This year our PE day will be on a Friday, however pupils will need their PE kit in daily.

Please remember that the PE uniform is a red T-shirt and dark shorts. Please ensure that children have a waterproof jacket. All items of clothing must be named. Long hair needs to be tied back and if children are wearing earring studs they must be able to remove them themselves.

We will continue to use Kiva to look at healthy friendships and bullying and the correct steps to take to help those who are bullied or if we are bullied.

Expressive Arts

We will be investigating communicating through pictures, cave paintings, and creating artwork by taking a line for a walk. Pupils will then create their own artwork inspired by the illustrator and the book "The Journey."

Homework

Homework will be set every Thursday and will need to be handed in Tuesday.

There will also be a Welsh games on Teams and Multiplication and Spelling games on Hwb.

Please can you also support your child in their reading by listening to them read as often as possible.