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 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 'Rainforest', this is a Geography based topic where we will learn all about Rainforest including where rainforests are, their importance, the animals that live there and the threats that they face.

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

What is a rainforest habitat? - BBC Bitesize

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15 rainforest facts | National Geographic Kids

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School Learning Zone - Rainforests

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Rainforest Facts for Kids

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Our Literacy lessons for this half term will be based on a book called 'Where the forest meets the sea' by Jeannie Baker.

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Blurb: 'My father says there has been a rainforest here for over a hundred million years.'
When a young boy visits a tropical rain forest, he pretends it is a long time ago and that extinct and rare animals live in the forest, and aboriginal children play there. But how much longer will the rainforest remain, he wonders?

Throughout these lessons we will be learning how to:

- Build a varied and rich vocabulary

e.g. this deadly, savage creature is known as the saltwater crocodile

- Use ‘a’ or ‘an’ accurately

e.g. The boy went on an amazing boat trip with his father

- Use simple organisational devices including headings and sub-headings

e.g. APPEARANCE, HABITAT, DIET

- Use apostrophes for the possessive (singular)

e.g. Megan’s torch, the tent’s zip

- Group related ideas into paragraphs

We will write descriptions, factfiles and explanations. Our final piece will be to write an information text about rainforests.

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

In our class reading sessions, we will be reading the book 'The Great Kapok Tree' by Lynne Cherry.

Blurb:

Lynne Cherry journeyed deep into the rain forests of Brazil to write and illustrate this gorgeous picture book about a man who exhausts himself trying to chop down a giant kapok tree. While he sleeps, the forest’s residents, including a child from the Yanomamo tribe, whisper in his ear about the importance of trees and how "all living things depend on one another" . . . and it works.

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 'Living things and their habitats'

We will be:

Recognising that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
Exploring and using classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment.
Recognising that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.

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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 (Mr Dixon's and Mr Fuller's class) and Athletics on a Wednesday.

Please note Mrs Hughes and Mrs Hooper's class will have PE on a Monday and a Wednesday due to an extra Sports Coach session on a Monday.

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!