Welcome to Year 3/4!

We are so excited for the school year ahead. We have lots of exciting books to read, topics to research and new skills to learn.

In this first half term of Autumn, our topic is Vile Victorians. We will be looking at life in the Victorian era and finding out how it was different to today. School was a lot different back then and we will be doing some drama activities to experience school life in a Victorian classroom.

For those of you who love art, we will be looking at the work of a famous artist called William Morris and creating our own artwork using a repeated pattern.

Our Science topic is Electricity. We will investigate how to light a bulb. This ties in with our Victorian theme. We wonder if anyone knows how? If not, don’t worry, we will be researching this in school.

For the Sports enthusiasts, our PE lessons will be on Thursdays. Everyone needs to remember their P.E. kit on this day as it is an important part of the curriculum.

To keep up to date with what we are doing in Maths, please have a look at the Maths newsletters posted on the class page belonging to your Maths teacher. Also, don’t forget to complete your My Maths homework online. This is set each Wednesday and you have a week to complete it.

Our first novel is called ‘Storm.’ This is all about a little girl called Annie and her adventure one stormy night! This book will help us develop our writing skills which we can then use across the curriculum! Don’t forget to read and complete the activities for 1 book each week on Bug Club. Reading is so important in helping us learn and develop other skills. A new list of spelling will be posted on our class page each Friday. Please remember to practice these words each day at home ready for your spelling test the following Friday.

‘Creation and Covenant’ is our first R.E. topic and we will be looking at how God and why God created the world for us. Our virtues are eloquent and truthful where will think about how we should speak kindly to others so that we can be truthful to Jesus in loving one another.

Let’s start our Year 3/4 adventure!

Mrs Lewis & Mr Henderson