Year 3 & 4 Class information page 2024 - 2025

Mrs Hughes

Mr Fuller

Mrs Hooper

Mr Dixon

Welcome to Year 3 and 4

The teachers in Year 3 and 4 are: Mr Fuller, Mr Dixon, Mrs Hooper and Mrs Hughes.

Welcome to the Summer term, we are looking forward to a term of fun and learning

Our topic for the Summer term is 'Ancient Egypt'

This is a history topic where we will learn about what life was like for the Ancient Egyptians.

Here are some useful websites that you could use if you would like to find out more...

Ancient Egypt - KS2 History - BBC Bitesize

10 Facts About Ancient Egypt | National Geographic Kids

World History: Ancient Egypt for Kids

Our Literacy lessons for this half term will be based on a book called 'Journey' by Aaron Becker.

Blurb:

A lonely girl draws a magic door on her bedroom wall and through it escapes into a world where wonder, adventure, and danger abound. Red marker in hand, she creates a boat, a balloon, and a flying carpet that carry her on a spectacular journey toward an uncertain destiny. When she is captured by a sinister emperor, only an act of tremendous courage and kindness can set her free. Can it also lead her home and to her heart's desire? With supple line, luminous color, and nimble flights of fancy, author-illustrator Aaron Becker launches an ordinary child on an extraordinary journey toward her greatest and most exciting adventure of all.

Throughout these lessons we will be learning how to:

Use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense e.g., "I have seen the movie"
Use prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs to express time, place and cause
Group related ideas into paragraphs
Use a or an according to whether the next word begins with a noun or a consonant
Build a rich and varied vocabulary

In Maths, we will be focusing on:

Year 3: Fractions and money.

Year 4: Decimals and money.

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'Once you learn to read, you will be forever free'

Reading is at the heart of the our curriculum, we want every child to discover the joy of reading for pleasure.

We expect every child to read at home at least 4 times per week, this does not have to be a school reading book it can be anything that your child enjoys reading.

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We also want to promote a love of reading by encouraging parents to read to their children. Cosy up and enjoy a book together!

Click here to see our book recommendations: Book recommendations in Mrs Hughes & Mrs Hooper's Class (padlet.com)

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In our class reading sessions, we will be reading the book 'The Promise' by Nicola Davis.

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Blurb:

On a mean street in a mean city, a thief tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But she finds she can’t have it without promising something in return – to “plant them all”. When it turns out the bag is full of acorns, the young thief embarks on a journey that changes her own life and the lives of others for generations to come. Inspired by the belief that a relationship with nature is essential to every human being, and that now, more than ever, we need to renew that relationship, The Promise is the story of a magical discovery that will touch the heart and imagination of every reader, young and old. With poignant simplicity, honesty and lyricism, Nicola Davies evokes a powerful vision of a world where people and nature live in harmony. And Laura Carlin's delicate illustrations capture a young girl’s journey from a harsh, urban reality to the beauty and vitality of a changed world.

During our reading lessons we will continue to develop our VIPERS skills. Remember that VIPERS stands for vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval and summarising.

In Science lessons, we will be focusing on our investigation skills.

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We will be:

Asking relevant scientific questions.
Setting up simple practical enquiries and comparative and fair tests.
Making accurate measurements using standard units, using a range of equipment, e.g. thermometers and data loggers.
Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions.
Recording findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, bar charts and tables.
Using our results to draw simple conclusions.

Homework will be given out on a Thursday and is expected to be handed in on the following Wednesday.

There will be a piece of maths homework and a spelling task.

There will also be learning log task based on our topic to complete every half term.

In addition to this, we expect children to complete tasks on Times table rockstars and also read at least 4x per week.

Spellings

Children are expected to be able to read and spell common exception words, there is a set for years 3&4. The list is attached at the bottom of this page.

Each week the children will have a spelling test, this will be on a Thursday morning. They will be tested on the spellings that are sent home.

In PE this half-term, we will be taking part in Athletics on a Wednesday and Swimming (Year 3) and Rounders (Year 4) on a Friday.

The children should come to school at the beginning of the week with their PE kit in a small, drawstring bag, which is to be kept in school until Friday when we will send them home for washing. In Key Stage 2, it is an expectation that the children get themselves ready for PE.

Children will usually wear their white shorts and navy PE t-shirt for PE but, while the cooler weather is approaching, they can instead wear tracksuit bottoms or leggings with their PE t-shirt and school sweatshirt or cardigan if they wish to. It is a good idea to have both options in the PE bag - please make sure that you show your children the different items that are in there or even get them to pack it with you!

Please ensure all items are labelled with your child's name.

Coats/bags

Your child will need a coat in school at all times as we will be doing as much as we can outside.

No bags, apart from lunch bags, book bags and PE bags, are needed in school.

Please make sure that all items of clothing, including PE kits, shoes, and coats, have the children's names on the labels. The children may be able to identify their belongings at home, but it is surprising how difficult they find it when they haven't worn something for a while and it looks so similar to everyone else’s!