Learning Year 3/4
Year 3 & 4
We have four classes in lower key stage 2:
Year 3
Cedar Class - Mrs William/Mrs Scott
Willow Class - Miss Taylor
Year 4
Maple Class - Mrs Heron
Rowan Class - Miss Bentham
View Our Curriculum section for further details of our learning.
“A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures” – Denise Witmer.
Welcome everyone! We hope you enjoy seeing our termly updates surrounding our learning in Rowan, Cedar, Willow and Maple class. Topics this year include: Changes in Britain from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, States of Matter, What happens when the land meets the sea? and Online Safety.
We look forward to sharing our learning with you throughout this academic year!
Autumn 1 2024
This half term, in Lower Key Stage 2, our enquiry question is ‘How can we rediscover the wonders of Ancient Egypt?’. We will be asking questions and finding answers to questions such as Where is Egypt and how does it fit into history?, Why was the Nile important to Ancient Egyptians?, What was life like for Ancient Egyptians?, Who build the pyramids and why? Who was king Tut?
topic web autumn 1 cycle a 1 .pdf
In Art, we will explore Ancient Egyptian Art. We will create our own side profile Pharaoh portraits inspired by the art inside the tombs of the pyramids!
In RE we will be learning about what Hindus learn from the story of Rama and Sita.
In Computing, we will be developing our skills to create a presentation using PowerPoint.
In Science, we will be learning about animals, including humans. We will consider ‘How can animals be sorted and grouped based on their skeletons? and explore ‘What is a balanced diet and is it important?’
In Maths, we are very excited to be improving our fluency and place value of number and to develop our quick recall of number facts. We will continue to enjoy Mathletics, Times Table Rock Stars and NumBots to consolidate and extend our learning in Maths.
In Literacy, Year 3 will be reading ‘The Worst Witch’ by author Jill Murphy. While Year 4 will read ‘Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball’ by Laura Ellen Anderson. We will also delve into non-fiction books to find information about The Egyptians.
2023-2024
Literacy
In literacy this half term we have reading Stig of the Dump, in the story Barney meets a boy called Stig, who is from the Stone Age. In the story Stig teaches Barney how to do Cave paintings. We had a go at creating our own, using charcoal pencils and powdered paint.
Using ideas from the book we wrote diary entries as Barney.
Maths
This term our maths topic has been Place Value. During this topic we have used dice to order and compare numbers. We learnt how to partition 3 and 4 digit numbers in different ways. Finally, we learnt how to round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000. 5 climb the vine, 4 to the floor.
History
Our History topic this term has been Stone Age to Iron Age, We have been archaeologists and investigated how life changed from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
PE
In PE we have been doing gymnastics, we even went on a gymnastic trip, used trampolines, balance beams and gymnastics bars!