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 final part of our Summer term... we have a jam packed term full of exciting learning and hopefully some sunshine.

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

Our topic for this term is the 'Ancient Maya Civilisation', this is a History based topic where we will learn all about the Maya people; when they lived, where they lived and how they lived.

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

Maya Civilisation - KS2 History - BBC Bitesize

School Learning Zone - The Mayan Civilisation

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Our Literacy lessons for this half term will be based on a book called 'Blue John' by Berlie Doherty.

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Blurb: A spell-binding tale of magic and mysticism for young readers that explores the wonder of nature, from award-winning Berlie Doherty. The Queen of Darkness lives deep underground beneath a mountain with her child, Blue John, a boy she made from the blue of the glacier and the hot yellow light of the sun. Blue John is forbidden to leave his mother's side, but the lure of the light above is too strong. When a singing, dancing girl comes to the caves, Blue John must make a choice between darkness and light. A heart-warming story that embraces the beauty and colours of the natural world.

Throughout these lessons we will be learning how to:

- Use fronted adverbials

e.g. In the heart of the mountain, Blue John listened to the echoing silence.

- Use conjunctions to add detail.

e.g. When he stepped into the sunlight, he gasped in amazement.

- Use present and past tenses correctly including the progressive and the present perfect forms

e.g. Blue John is exploring the glittering tunnels

Blue John has dreamed of seeing the outside world for a long time.

- Group related ideas into paragraphs

We will write descriptions and explanations. Our final piece will be to write an explanation text about how caves are formed.

In Maths, we will be focusing on:

Year 3: Time, Shape and Statistics

Year 4: Time, Shape, Statistics and Position and Direction.

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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 a variety of playscripts and poems.

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 Leonardo Di Vinci and conducting some investigations based on his work.

We will be learning to:

Ask relevant scientific questions.
Set up simple practical enquiries and comparative and fair tests.
Make accurate measurements using standard units, using a range of equipment.
Gather, record, classify and present data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions.
Record findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, bar charts and tables.
Use results to draw simple conclusions.

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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 Rounders on a Tuesday and Athletics 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.

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!