Beech Class - Year 3 & Year 4 2024 - 2025
Mrs Liley
Mrs Edge
Ms Truswell
Welcome back to Spring Term 2025!
We are excited to start this new term with you. As the weather gets warmer and the days get a little longer, we hope to provide our children with more exciting challenges and adventures both inside and outside the classroom.
In our English lessons, we will begin by exploring the story "Fox" by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks. It is a powerful narrative about friendship, betrayal, and courage. The children will complete two 'Big Writes': the first will be a fable narrative, and the second will be a newspaper report. We will also have weekly spelling, punctuation, and grammar tests, along with handwriting practice every Friday, when new spellings will be set.
Reading is fundamental to education, and we encourage our pupils to read daily at home for at least five minutes. We believe that daily reading can significantly impact a child's academic achievements. Keeping a record of each reading session in the Home School Journal and bringing it to school daily will help your child track their progress.
Power Maths is now fully integrated into our curriculum, helping children develop fluency and deep understanding of concepts. We will continue to have weekly arithmetic tests every Monday, and their progress will be recorded in their Home School Journals.
Homework will be set on Tuesdays and is due the following Monday. We strongly recommend that your child practices their times tables on Times Table Rockstars daily to improve their fluency and understanding. Additionally, there will be times table tests every Friday to help enhance their mental arithmetic abilities, which are essential for mathematical problem-solving.
In our wider curriculum subjects, we will start by exploring how festivals and family life reflect the values of Jewish people in our Religious Education lessons. In Geography, pupils will learn about migration, which refers to the movement of people around the world, including the different types, reasons, and causes for this movement. They will also explore how migration can bring cultural fusion, including new foods to various locations.
In Science, children will describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the human digestive system, identify the different types of teeth and their functions in humans, construct and interpret various food chains, and identify producers, predators, and prey.
In Art and Design, we will be looking at ‘sculptures’ In Computing, we will be looking at ‘Sequencing’, we will use a program called ‘Scratch’ to code our own stories and animations. We will program a set of instructions for our computers to follow and use algorithms to sequence movements, actions and sounds.
In French, we will be focusing on Birthday Celebrations. In PHSCE our topic will be ‘Families and Relationships’. We will enjoy our weekly Music lessons with Mr Kitcher each Thursday.
We hope that these exciting topics will help our pupils develop their creative skills and continue to broaden their horizons.
We look forward to a fantastic term ahead!
For more information on our curriculum, please visit our Curriculum Page on the website.
Key Information for Autumn Term
- Children should wear full uniform and black school shoes each day.
- Our PE sessions will be on Wednesday and Friday with Mr Tinsley. Children are required to attend school in their school PE kits on these days.
- Children should bring a water bottle everyday.
- Children do not need to bring pencil cases or other personal items to school.
- Please label all clothing and personal items to avoid the loss of property.
If you have questions or queries please see us at the start or end of the school day or email [email protected].
To find out more about who will be teaching the class click on our 'Meet the Teaching Team' page.
We are looking forward to sharing another wonderful term with you all and don't forget to follow what goes on in our school on our Class Dojo page!
Mrs Liley, Ms Truswell and Mrs Edge
