Bears (Year 3 and Year 4)

Welcome to the Year 3/4 Bears’ class page. 

Class teacher: Mr Foyle

Class teaching assistant: Miss Hillman

Autumn Term

In English this term we will looking at a host of speaking, listening, comprehension and independent writing tasks (including poetry) based on several texts, namely: Jack and the Beanstalk; Stone Age Boy; The Wild Way Home; and How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth. A much broader range of texts will also be accessed during our weekly whole class reading programme which aims to promote reading fluency and comprehension skills. Weekly handwriting, grammar, vocabulary and spelling activities underpin all such work.  

Maths will seek to secure place value up to 10,000 depending on class member's age and ability, with mental and written strategies across the four operations thereon (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.)

In Science we will be studying Animal (incl. Human) Nutrition and the Skeletal system.  DT will support this with a Food Technology unit designing and making a healthy packaged snack. (See attached Knowledge Organisers.)

Our Historical focus (with geographical work supporting) looks at Britain during the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age periods.  Supplementing this will be our Art work on Prehistoric Pottery.  (See attached Knowledge Organisers.)

In PSHE we will continue to follow the applicable age-phase Jigsaw programme introduced last year with units on: Being in My World and Celebrating Difference.

This year see the launch of Coventry and Warwickshire new agreed syllabus for RE, which running parallel to our Understanding Christianity (UC) work as a CofE school, has some very positive changes within it, enabling a children to consider their own worldview and how it relates to those of others and other faith communities.  Our work up to Christmas will enquire out the role Seasons play in religion, Creation (UC), and Worldviews expressed via art and architecture.

Regular, short French lessons will take place promoting children's basic vocabulary, phrasing and simple conversational skills.

Music (Charanga scheme) and Computing (Purple Mash scheme) will take place on a Monday afternoon, delivered by Mrs Proudfoot, who will be covering Mr Foyle's PPA.

We look forward to working together with your child and you during the course of the term.  Please approach us with any questions or concerns either at drop-off/pick-up or via Seesaw messaging, phone or email.

Mr Foyle & Miss Hillman