Aspiring Acers and Excellent Elms

Aspiring Acers

Teacher: Mrs Twist and Miss Delaney

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Luda

Excellent Elms

Teacher: Miss Wiggins

Teaching Assistant: Miss Zareba

Our classrooms are well organised to promote the children’s independence and to ensure the best from all of our children. Both classrooms have working walls for English and Maths to aid the children with their work. We also celebrate children’s fantastic work by displaying it around our classrooms.

Aspiring Acers’ School Councillor

Kojo

Aspiring Acers’ Eco Councillor

Leo

Every class has at one school councilor to help share their classes’ views and make changes across the school.

 

 

We also have an eco council with a representative from each class. These children meet to discuss ideas about how to make our school more environmentally friendly and sustainable.

Excellent Elms’ School Councillor

Amelia

Excellent Elms Eco Councillor

Tatiana

Aspiring Acers’ Dojo Masters:

Twinkle and Tanvi

Every class has at least 2 Dojo masters. They are role models of excellent behaviour, always showing the FIRSY values of Fascinated, Independent, Respectful, Sociable and You can do it!

Excellent Elms’ Dojo Masters:

Sienna and Marwah

Click on the tabs below to find out more information about each topic. Throughout the year we will also add pictures of memorable experiences and hooks!

Mighty Metals

In this topic we will be learning all about life from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. We will look at evidence found by archaeologists and consider different viewpoints about the past. In Science we will be learning about light and sound. In Art we will be improving our sketching skills and making our own cave paintings. RE lessons will focus on Christian beliefs. During PSHE we are thinking about rules, how we treat others and the special people in our lives. Computing lessons will focus on using data loggers to record sound and light. In MFL we will be learning about how people communicate and starting our very first lessons in Latin.

 

Our Maths lessons this half term will focus on Place Value and then Addition and Subtraction. We will also be regularly practising times tables.

In History we will be learning about the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain. This will include learning about resistance to Roman rule and Boudicca’s revolt. In Art, we will be further improving our sketching skills, creating our own pictures of Roman emperors. We are really looking forward to our Design and Technology unit which is about food and nutrition. We will be investigating, designing and making focaccia bread. Our computing unit is all about technology in our lives. We will be continuing to investigate Latin, learning about verbs, word order and questions.

In this full term unit, we will learn all about the city we live in. We will be conducting a local History study which will focus on the railways and the impact they had on Derby and Great Britain. Our Science unit will be all about plants, including their parts and how they grow. In Geography we will be developing our map skills and doing some field work, surveying traffic in different locations. In Art, we will be learning about architecture and improving our skills in printing by learning to monoprint. We will be continuing our learning in Latin, finding out about adjectives and using the main verb at the end of sentences.

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Experiences

We will be doing a tour of Derby city centre, looking at significant places, buildings and monuments.

During this half term, we will be comparing human and physical features in Geography. We will be looking at similarities and differences between places including Derbyshire, The Amalfi Coast and the Amazon Rainforest. We are especially looking forward to our fieldwork in the Peak District. In Science we will be learning about living things and their habitats. Our computing unit is focused on multi-media, creating stop-motion animations. We will be continuing our learning in Latin.

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In our History lessons, we will be learning about Ancient Greece. We will be looking at the ancient Greek city states and the impact Greece has on our lives even today. In Art, we will be designing and making a 3D box in clay. Our learning in Design and Technology will be all about levers, linkages and moving parts.

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Reading

Mrs Twist and Miss Wiggins will be reading to us everyday. Our books for this half term are:

Stig of the Dump by Clive King

Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura

The First Drawing by Mordecai Gerstein

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson and Kate Hindley

The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler

Inch and Grub by Alistair Chisholm and David Roberts

How to Live Like a Stone Age Hunter by Anita Ganeri

 

English – Place Value of Grammar and Punctuation

Our English lessons this year will begin with a grammar unit which will give us the building blocks for quality writing. We will be learning about types of nouns, subjects, verbs and the basics of writing sentences.

 

Talk for Writing – Fiction

Our focus for this unit is portal stories. We will reading ‘The Impossible Possible Bookshop’ by Kat Pennington. We will be especially looking at how dialogue is written and punctuated. We will use the model text to guide us towards writing our own portal stories.

our own text about the Vikings

Our Experiences and Opportunities

We do lots of exciting things throughout the year, this may be part of our topic or additional experiences.

Memorable Experience

 

October 22nd/23rd – Enrichment through Archaeology

 

 

Parental Engagement

 

 

September 17th (3.00) Excellent Elms Meet the teacher
September 19th (9.00) Aspiring Acers Meet the teacher

 

Music

We are really lucky to have specialist music teachers who will be teaching violin to all Year 4 children every Monday for the whole year.

Year 3s will be learning how to play the glockenspiel this half term.

Year 3 will be swimming every Wednesday until February half term. Please ensure your child brings a swimming costume and towel.

PE for Year 4 is on Wednesday.

The children will change for PE in school so please ensure they have their kit ready. They can leave this in school if you like.

Home learning will be sent out every Friday and will need to be returned by Wednesday the following week. Your child is able to complete it at lunchtimes in school if that is needed, just speak to their class teacher.

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Firs Primary School
Raven Street
Derby
DE22 3WA
Telephone: 01332 346230
Fax: 01332 200782
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