Lower Key Stage Two (Year 3/4)

Teaching Team in Year 3 and 4

Acer: Miss White (Class Teacher)

Pine: Mr Smith (Class Teacher)

Poplar: Miss Hawes and Mrs Mace (Class Teachers)

Supported by Mrs Gillman, Mrs Paines and Mrs Oldfield

Home Learning

Spellings will be handed out each Friday followed by a quiz on the following Friday.

All children have a log in for TTRockstars (an online Maths App). Daily practise will boost your child's maths confidence and increase their fluency and recall in multiplication and division.

By the end of Year 3, children must be able to recall their 1,2,3,4,5,6,8 and 10 times tables at speed. In the summer term, Year 4 children are required to take the national statutory multiplication test and will need to be able to recall their times tables fluently.

Reading books are being sent home and need to be brought into school everyday. Your child should be reading every day and recording when they have read in their reading records.

PE

We do not all have PE on the same day. Please see below the days for specific classes:

Pine and Poplar - Thursday

Acer - Friday

Children need to come in to school wearing their kit. Please refer to the Uniform Policy for the correct clothing. Please make sure they have suitable clothes for the weather as the majority of PE will take place outside.

What we are learning each week:

Year 3/4 Timetable

What learning looks like in years 3 and 4:

Reading:

Reading is promoted and modelled to all our children throughout their time at school. Children will have a daily reading lesson where they will learn how to read fluently as well as make inference, predictions and retrieve key words or phrases to answer comprehension questions. As children encounter new vocabulary we will explore the definitions of these words within the context of the book and the effect this has on the meaning. Alongside daily reading lessons, we have a story after lunch every day to continue fostering a love of reading.

English:

In English, we will be using a range of books linked to the topic to inspire our writing. Each half term, we will focus on one fiction, one non-fiction and one poetry unit. At the end of each unit, the children will produce a piece of writing to go into their best writing file.

Maths:

We use the Power Maths scheme which follows a mastery approach to Maths. All children have access to a range of manipulatives to promote their concrete understanding of abstract concepts. Alongside this we promote fluency within the 4 operations through an additional arithmetic lesson each week.

Topic:

We have a thematic approach to our learning and link our topic to the other subjects where possible.

Year 3/4 Newsletter