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 Autumn term... we are looking forward to a new school 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 'Snowdonia', this is a geography based topic where we will compare Snowdonia to Chester and complete map work.

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

https://kids.kiddle.co/Snowdon

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How to read a map - BBC Bitesize

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Exploring the UK’s National Parks | KS2 Geography |

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Our Literacy lessons for this half term will be based on a book called 'Gorilla' by Anthony Browne.

Blurb:

Hannah loves gorillas but has never seen one. Her father's too busy to take her to the zoo – or for anything else come to that. For her birthday, Hannah asks her father for a gorilla – but is disappointed when she discovers that the gorilla she's got is just a toy one. But then something extraordinary happens ... the toy turns into a real gorilla, who puts on her father's hat and coat and takes her off for a magical visit to the zoo...

Throughout these lessons we will be learning how to:

Use accurate punctuation e.g. full stops, capital letters, commas in a list.
Write descriptive sentences e.g. the hairy gorilla with the smart, red tie.
Use prepositions for time, cause and place e.g. under the bridge, after midnight,
Punctuate speech with inverted commas e.g. “Where are we going?” Hannah questioned.

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

In Maths, we will be focusing on:

Year 3: Place Value and addition and subtraction.

Year 4: Place Value and addition and subtraction.

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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 our book recommendations: Book recommendations in Mrs Hughes & Mrs Hooper's Class (padlet.com)

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In our class reading sessions, we will be reading the book 'The one and only Ivan' by Katherine Applegate.

Blurb:

Inspired by a true story, this is the beautifully written tale of how a mighty gorilla wins his freedom. A winning blend of humour and poignancy that will appeal to fans of Michael Morpurgo. Ivan is an easy-going gorilla who has spent his life performing for the crowds at the Exit 8 shopping mall. He rarely misses life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly thinks about it at all. But everything changes when a baby elephant called Ruby arrives and Ivan realises he must find a new life for them both.

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 'Rocks and soil'

We will be:

Comparing and grouping together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.
Describing in simple terms how fossils are formed, when things that have lived are trapped within rock.
Recognising that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.

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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 half 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 Badminton on a Monday and Dance on a Thursday.

The children should come to school at the beginning of the week with their PE kit in a small, drawstring bag, which is to be kept in school until Friday when we will send them home for washing. In Key Stage 2, it is an expectation that the children get themselves ready for PE.

Children will usually wear their white shorts and navy PE t-shirt for PE but, while the cooler weather is approaching, they can instead wear tracksuit bottoms or leggings with their PE t-shirt and school sweatshirt or cardigan if they wish to. It is a good idea to have both options in the PE bag - please make sure that you show your children the different items that are in there or even get them to pack it with you!

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, book bags and PE 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!