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Dosbarth Mrs Smedley

                                                     Stargazers Y3/4

  

 

Dear Parent/Carer,                                                                                                  September 2025

 

Welcome back to the start of a new school year at Danygraig! We hope you have had a wonderful Summer break and are ready for an exciting new term! Please find below details of the work that your child’s class will be doing during this term. We have also suggested ways in which you can help your child at home. If you have any queries or questions, please do not hesitate to get in contact with your child’s class teacher.

 

Thank you for your continued support,

Mr D. Field, Miss. R. Griffiths, Mr A. Byrne, Mrs. L. Smedley

 

Class: Year 3/4LS          Term: Autumn Term – 2025

Main areas of study:

Our topic this term is ‘Stargazers’.

The children will be discovering the awe and wonder of the solar system. The children will have opportunities to decide on their learning through pupil lead questioning. They could be working on topics in relation to our ‘Stargazers’ topic such as:

 

  • How to survive and thrive in a different environment on an unknown planet.
  • Investigate the requirements and skills needed to be a NASA astronaut.
  • Experience and explore the vast size of planets and galaxies in our solar system through our

‘Wonder Dome’ topic launch

 

Homework will be given to the children.  To be completed online through their Hwb accounts or in their homework books   by the following week. Homework will be alternate weeks of literacy and maths. Please see your child’s class teacher if you have any problems accessing the work.

Please ensure your child’s homework book is kept safe (ie: plastic folder) and handed in on time.

 

In maths we will be looking at: number and place value, written addition and subtraction, problem solving, reasoning and algebra, mental addition and subtraction, decimals, percentages and their equivalence to fractions, problem solving, reasoning and algebra, mental multiplication and division, measurement, mental multiplication and division, fractions, ratio and proportion, geometry, statistics, properties of shapes, worded problem solving and reasoning.

 

PE lessons will return and there will be opportunities to go outside and explore our physical well-being through activities and games.

Every other Thursday, starting Thursday September 18th

They will need tracksuit bottoms, t -shirt and trainers. Shorts in bag ready for PE in doors.

 

Dojo messages and information will continue this year in the class groups. Letters will be sent to those who have not joined yet for you to join our class community. Please follow the instructions to download and join our class community through the app. This is a simple and effective way of getting in touch, receiving information and seeing how your son/daughter is getting on through dojo points and posted videos.

Ways in which you can help at home:
  • Please listen to your child reading at home every night (your child will have reading book and new reading record diary for you to make comments). The reading day is on their folder.
  • Visit the local library to choose books relevant to topics being studied at school.
  • Discuss and talk through your child’s homework helping them with strategies and methods to solve it independently.
  • Talk to your child about the range of geographical features in their locality & globally.
  • Help your children by listening to them read, practice their times tables through TT Rockstars and help them to problem solve.

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