Year 3 & 4 Class information page 2026 - 2027

Mr Dixon

Mr Fuller

Mrs Hooper

Miss Humphreys

Welcome to Year 3 and 4

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

Welcome to the Autumn Term, we have an exciting term ahead with lots of fun and learning.

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

Our topic for this term is the 'Where people live', this is a Geography based topic where we will learn about the places people choose to live and why. We will learn about villages, town and cities in the UK and Europe aswell as famous landmarks and capital cities.

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

Screenshot 2026-08-22 205526.png

Settlements: cities, towns and villages - BBC Teach

Explore settlements - BBC Bitesize

KS2 Geography: UK settlements and navigating using maps (Zoom In, Zoom Out) - BBC Teach

Our Literacy lessons for this half term will be based on a book called 'Seal Surfer' by Michael Foreman

seal surfer.jpg

Blurb: A boy and his grandfather watch as a baby seal is born on the rocks near their home and from that day a special friendship is created between them. Despite his disability, the boy is a keen surfer, and he enjoys many afternoons surfing with the seals. One day, however, he gets into trouble in rough seas, and the young seal saves him. Their friendship brings happiness and meaning at the important stages of the boy's life.

Throughout these lessons we will be learning how to:

- Group related ideas into paragraphs

- Use expanded noun phrases to add description and detail

jagged rocks by the shore,, ,wild flowers at their feet

- Use prepositions to show time, place and cause

The boy climbed down the rocks.

After breakfast, he watched the waves at the beach.

The boy surfed because the waves were perfect.

-Use full stops and capital letters, exclamation and question marks, commas to separate items in a list

We will write descriptions, diary entries and our final piece will be a letter.

In Maths, we will be focusing on:

Year 3: Place Value and Addition and Subtraction.

Year 4: Place Value and Addition and Subtraction.

Don't forget to practise your times tables using TTRS, everyone! Use the link at the bottom of the page to access your account.

Reading(1).jpg

'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.

Reading 1.jpg

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....

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 learning about Food groups, Skeletons and Muscles.

We will be learning:

That animals and humans need the right kinds of food to stay healthy.
How animals and humans get their nutrition from the food they eat because they cannot make their own food.
That humans and some animals have skeletons that support and protect their bodies.
That muscles help humans and animals move

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

There will be a piece of Maths timestable homework and a spelling task. Your lists of spellings will be attached to this webpage, if you lose them!

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

Don't forget to read regularly and fill in your reading record. This is important and something you should be proud of!

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)

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 Monday morning. They will be tested on the spellings that are sent home.

In PE this half-term, we will be taking part in Badminton on a Monday and Tag Rugby on a Thursday.

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

When the weather is warm, children can wear their white shorts and navy PE t-shirt for PE but, when the weather is cooler, they can wear tracksuit bottoms or leggings with their PE t-shirt and school sweatshirt or cardigan if they wish to.

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 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!

Please remember to bring in a water bottle each day. Staying hydrated is healthy and helps you to learn! Remember to use a reusable water bottle as this is far better for the environment than disposable ones although please don't spend a fortune on these! You can buy a reusable water bottle cheaply from school.

Useful wesbite/games to use at home

Maths

Practise your times tables and test your recall of multiplication facts against the clock.