Year 3 & 4 Class information page 2025 - 2026

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 Spring term... we are looking forward to a new year full of learning and fun!

Here on our class page you can find out what we will be learning this half term.

Our topic for this term is 'The Romans', this is a history based topic where we will learn all about the Roman Empire and their links to Chester.

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Here are some websites that you could use to find out some information:

The Romans | KS2 Topics | Ages 7-11 - BBC Bitesize

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Ancient Rome - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

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The Romans: what did it mean to be a Roman? KS2 | Y4 History Lesson Resources | Oak National Academy

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Our Literacy lessons for this half term will be based on a book called 'Wisp' by Zana Fraillon and Grahame Baker Smith.

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Blurb: Idris lives in a refugee camp which is full of people, but where everyone is alone. There are no rivers or seas to swim in and no trees to give shade. One day, a tiny, bright wisp appears in the dirt: an insect-size glowing light that, when it finds the right person, fills them with a memory of their life before the refugee camp: a memory that gives them just a little hope once again.

One night, when the wisp settles before Idris, he waits for it to give him a memory, but none appears: he has never lived anywhere but the refugee camp, so it can’t give him a memory. Instead, it gives him something else: a promise.

Throughout these lessons we will be learning how to:

- Use different types of sentences

e.g. In the darkness, the Wisp shimmered like a tiny star.

When the Wisp floated higher, the children followed it.

- Use adverbs to express time, place and cause

e.g. Gently, the old man placed his arm around Idris and patted his shoulder.

- Choose nouns or pronouns for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition

e.g. Idris saw the Wisp. He followed it across the camp.

- Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech

e.g. “Follow me,” he said, pointing at the glowing spark.

We will write dialogue, dairy entries and descriptions. Our final piece will be to write a story based on the book.

In Maths, we will be focusing on:

Year 3: Fractions and mass/capacity.

Year 4: Fractions and decimals.

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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 book recommendations: Spy Readers | Find your child's next favourite book

In our class reading sessions, we will be reading the book 'Pompeii - A Roman girl's diary AD 78 (My Story)' by Sue Reid

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Blurb:

Pompeii is an engaging story of one of history's most eruptive disasters. It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city...

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 investigating 'Sound'

We will be:

Identifying how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.
Recognising that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear.
Finding patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.
Finding patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.
Recognising that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

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 term (Please find this terms attached at the bottom of the page)

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 Circuits/Fitness on a Tuesday and Cricket on a Wednesday.

Children should come to school wearing their PE kit on these days.

Children will usually wear their white shorts and navy PE t-shirt for PE but, while the cooler weather is here, they can instead wear tracksuit bottoms or leggings with their PE t-shirt and school sweatshirt or cardigan if they wish to.

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 and book 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!