Welcome to Riverside Class

Year 3 and 4

Mr Stubbs

In Riverside we have been starting all of our new topics and books. We are using Talk for Writing to learn the beginning part of our book Dare to Care by heart. In Science we have been learning about the digestive system and looking at a model to recreate it. We had a lovely first swimming session at the leisure centre and the children all did really well.

This week Riverside have been working on polishing off their dance routines in PE with Mr Gibbs. They have had to use lots of team work and communication to get the final result and these are not easy skills for children to grasp. However, it has been lovely to see how the pieces have come together. We have been writing our journey stories and publishing them in our best joined writing ready to go onto our display.

We have been publishing our stories in English this week on the computer and turning them into real books. It's been lovely to see them all so engaged and creative with their new IT skills. In art, we have almost finished out personality pots, they now have colour and beautiful patterns. The children have been doing their own research in history and finding out more about what interests them with the ancient civilizations. 

In Riverside this week we have been writing and starting to publish our animal stories by using Book Creator. It has been great to see the children using their new skills independently. In science we have been learning more about the bones in the human body and their functions. We measured the size of the bones and collected the data. Then we ordered them from the smallest bones in our bodies (in our ears) to the largest bone in our legs (the femur). 

Riverside have been learning about animal and human skeletons this week in science. We have been discussing the role the skeleton has to protect our bodies, to give us structure and shape, as well as for movement. We looked at animals with exoskeletons and also vertebrates and invertebrates.

Riverside have been very busy with lots of hands on learning this week. In music the children have been learning their norms on the xylophone. In PE we have been learning about teamwork and ball skills while learning about netball. In art, we have made a start on our Clay pots with inspiration from Grayson Perry. It’s been loads of fun! Keep up the good work!

Riverside class have started learning about Humans and Animals in their science unit. This week we learnt about food groups and nutrition. We looked into the daily recommended calorie intake and how much we need a healthy amount of food to be able to have enough energy to grow, play and have healthy active brains.

Riverside class have been settling in beautifully. We have been playing getting to know you games, a Big Write to show me what they can do and setting up their Google classrooms and playing BBC maths games to keep up the practice. 

It’s been lovely to see how well everyone has settled in!