We are looking forward to welcoming Year 3/ 4 back to school on Wednesday 3rd September!

Meet the team: 

Mrs Gittins (Class Teacher)

Mrs Rowlands (Teaching Assistant)

Here you will find our newsletters, photos and any important information about our class. Please pop back here to see what we have been doing during the term and to find out what is coming up.

Important Class Information

PE Days: Wednesday and second day TBC (Starting from the week commencing 8th September)- Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.

Reading Books: reading books will be changed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and get your child to complete the reading task in their reading journal.

Break time snack: If you wish for your child to have a snack at break time, please provide a healthy choice of fruit or vegetables.

Lunchtimes: Children will be eating lunch in their houses (Apollo, Endeavour, Galileo and Phoenix), and houses will be rotated regularly. This provides children with the opportunity to mix with other year groups and to make new friends. 

Homework: A homework grid will be added to the website and will be due in on Monday 3rd November.

Dates 

Wednesday 3rd September - Children start school.

Monday 29^th September- Years 3 and 4 trip to Cotswold Wildlife Park

Tuesday 21st October - Parents Evening

Wednesday 22nd October - Parents Evening

Thursday 23rd October - INSET Day

Friday 24th October - INSET Day

Curriculum

This Term’s Topic: Paddington

This term, our learning will be centred around the Michael Bond chapter book ‘A Bear called Paddington’.

In Literacy, the children will develop their oracy skills using drama to consider the feelings of characters from Paddington. They will write their own set of clear instructions, a setting description and explore various elements of SPAG including nouns, verbs and adjectives.

In Geography, children will be using maps and atlases to locate different countries, continents and oceans in the world. They will explore and compare the human and physical features of Europe and South America.

During Science, pupils will learn how to classify different living things and explore how environmental changes can affect living things, especially those in South America. Children will discover more about this on our exciting trip to Cotswold Wildlife Park.

In Art, we will be heading back to Paddington’s jungle routes in Peru and exploring the work of Henri Rousseau whose best-known paintings depict jungle scenes. We look forward to creating our own interpretations of his work.

Our DT this term, will see the children exploring, designing and creating cam toys.

Within Religious Education, children will learn how Christian and Jewish people believe the world was made and explore the creation story.

In Wellbeing, pupils will be discussing and developing strategies for showing kindness and respect. We will also be looking at how we can use growth mindset to help our wellbeing.

In Computing, we will be developing our PowerPoint skills with a focus on animation and transition tools

In Mathematics, the focus will be place value. We will explore numbers and incorporate lots of reasoning to ensure we have a really good understanding of their value.

Times Tables Rockstars: Regular practise TTRS will help pupils to retain knowledge that they can utilise facts in other mathematical learning. All pupils should have their login details and can play on phones or tablets!

Times Tables: It is important all pupils learn their timetables up to the 12 times table and know these by the end of year 4.  On Times Tables Rockstars, pupils can play 'Sound Check,' an MTC simulator that presents 25 multiplication questions (up to 12×12), with a six-second time limit for each question.

Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.