Welcome to Year 3 and 4!

We are a class of 30 children

Our teacher Miss Leslie.

Miss Quarry will be teaching our class on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

We also have Mrs Burns (our TA) and Miss Quarry (our HLTA) working with us throughout the week.

If you require any further information or queries, please contact Miss Leslie via Class Dojo or contact the school office.

Key Information:

• Our PE days are every Monday and Wednesday this half term. Children must wear their school PE kit and trainers for school on these days. Please ensure that children do not wear jewellery (including earrings) on days when they have PE. 
• Snack money will be £1 per week and can be given to Miss Leslie or Miss Quarry when the children come into school on Monday morning.
• Read five times a week to gain your Strive for Five target. Children receive a raffle ticket each time they read at home, which is entered into our weekly reading raffle! There are lots of exciting prizes to be won.
•  Please could you support your child by helping them to practice these in preparation for our informal spelling test which will take place on Friday each week. 

Our Curriculum

The Year 3/4 curriculum has been developed to be creative, engaging and purposeful for the children meeting the needs of our class. It allows us to develop and grow through memorable and fun activities.  A wide range of experiences, which involve visitors and educational visits will be used to further bring the curriculum to life for everyone.

This year we will follow a year 4 cycle in foundation subjects.

Our curriculum map can be found below, this outlines out plan for the year. We will share our experiences and keep you updated with your child's learning throughout the year via. Earwig, Class DOJO and parents meetings. 

Our Learning Challenge topic for Autumn 1 is: How do rivers and mountains change the world around us?

 In this topic we will learn about how rivers are formed and how they can transform life around us. This will be weaved throughout most topics for this half term. We will follow the process of how rivers are created, the water cycle, how rivers can effect people living around them and why they are so important to us.

PE - Invasion Games

Whole class - Baking Coconut Buns

This links to our book 'Baker by the Sea' 

Year 3 have been learning about democracy and voted for their class councilors in a secret ballot today. Each child voted for a boy and girl to join our school council.

Maths-Partitioning numbers up to 1000.

During our maths lessons we have been representing the value of each digit in numbers up to 1,000 (3-digit numbers.) They have identified the value of each digit, the hundreds, tens and ones and have represented this using a place value charts and they have practically represented the numbers using hundreds, tens and ones equipment.

Geography Drawing diagrams of rivers and their processes.

As an introduction (hook) to our topic looking at the Stone Age we have begun to explore some examples of cave drawings/paintings discovered from this period in history. We identified some of the animals and themes included in these and explored the colours that were used. The children then created some of their own cave drawings collaboratively on a large piece of brown paper using oil pastels, this has been used to create the background to our class displays.