Year 3 and 4

Spring 1 2025

 

Class information

 

Year 3 / 4 is the lower key stage 2 class at Cambois Primary School. We are taught by Miss Mason and supported by Mrs Palmer, Miss McBriarty and Miss Routledge (on Thursdays). We also have Mrs Gooch supporting us this half term and we love having her in class!

In the morning, we have a phonic and alternate guided reading/spelling lesson followed by maths and literacy lesson each day. We follow a creative curriculum in the afternoon, including Art, Music, computing, French and PSHE. 

 

Maths

 

In Spring 1, children will be focusing on multiplication and division, engaging in a range of both fluency and reasoning tasks to ensure deeper understanding of number. They will then move on to Length and Perimeter whilst consolidation their previous learning of Area. By the end of Spring 1, children will have began to learn about fractions which will continue into Spring 2. We also have the privilege of continuing to be a selected pilot school of Mastering Number from NCETM. This supports children with their multiplication skills, alongside our Timetable Rockstars app which the children have logins for and challenge each other - and their teachers - to competitions. Year 4 children are also practicing their tables via TTRS Sound check, which mimics the times table test which they will complete near the end of the academic year. This term we will be consolidating our 12 times table knowledge and moving onto the 9 times table.

 

Literacy

 We are using the text 'Billy and the Minpins' by Roald Dhal. We will use this text to write narratives and non-fiction pieces, as well as make links to other books with similar themes.

 
Oracy Skills within Literacy
 
In our class we have been working on building our oracy skills, engaging in a range of Literacy strategies such as hot seating, role playing, drama and reasoning to develop and support our writing. This half term we are having lots of fun exploring ambitious and some made up vocabulary in keeping with the Roald Dhal structure.
 
P.E and Swimming
 
Our P.E days in Year 3 and 4 are Tuesday and Friday. Please make sure your child arrives at school in the correct P.E kit. Children are currently learning gymnastics with our instructor Sophie.
 
Year 3 will be engaging in swimming lessons this half term. All information for this will be communicated with parents via our SchoolPing system. year 4 children will engage in DT lessons aswell as extra times table practice in preparation for their national Times table test on the Summer. 
 
 
PSHE
 
In PSHE, our focus is on Dreams and Goals. This will include:
 
  • Know about specific people who have overcome difficult challenges to achieve success •
  • Know what dreams and ambitions are important to them
  • Know how they can best overcome learning challenges
  • Know that they are responsible for their own learning 
  • Know what their own strengths are as a learner
  • Know what an obstacle is and how they can hinder achievement 
  • Know how to take steps to overcome obstacles
  • Know how to evaluate their own learning progress and identify how it can be better next time

RE: Creation

 
In RE, we are learning all about the story of Creation and what it means to be a Christian and follow God. We will be exploring the different ideas around this topic whist respecting the views of others.
 
 
 
Science
 
Our Science topic in Spring 1 is all about SOUND
 
We will be learning to:
 
Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.
 
Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear
 
Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it
 
Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it
Art and DT
 
This half term we will continue to explore healthy eating and understanding what a balanced diet is and why our bodies need certain nutrients to remain healthy and to grow.
 
We will be looking at cooking appliances and various types of pasta; moving onto different ways to cook pasta safely.
 
After this, we will be moving onto exploring the shapes and patterns with ammonites, and creating out own sketches.
 
 
 
Humanities
 
In History, we will continue to study prehistoric life, moving on to the Bronze and Iron Age, learning all about the Celtic warriors and making informed comparisons between this and the Stone Age.
 
 
In Geography, we will continue to explore the planet and how countries were formed, as well as investigating why earthquakes happen and what actually happens within a volcano.
 
We will participate in researching Pompeii and using maps to locate volcanoes around the world.
  
 
MFL - French
 
In French, we are learning all about 'I can....' using the Language Angels scheme of work: using games and quizzes to consolidate our learning in a fun way. We will learn a range of vocabulary to be able to say all the incredible things we can do! 
 
Computing
 
In computing this half term, we are focusing on data and spreadsheets using our Purple Mash scheme of work. We don't just use this in computing: our teaching staff set cross-curricular games and quizzes to make learning fun and we get to tinker with our skills, which we love to do. We continue to use our Ipads for TTRS and Bedrock too!