Lower Key Stage 2
Welcome to Lower Key Stage Two
Miss Harrison
Year 3 teacher: Miss Karla Harrison
Year 3 teaching assistant: Mrs Jaki Portsmouth & Miss Vicki Lane
Year 4 teacher: Miss Sally Coppock
Year 4 teaching assistant: Mrs Sue Scott
The Year 3 and 4 staff will be adding content to this page for you to enjoy throughout the year that will link to the subjects we are covering. We hope you have lots of fun exploring our page.
A28 - I have the right to an education.
A29 - My education helps me to develop my personality, talents and abilities.
A31 - I have the right to rest, relax, play and take part in cultural activities.
Log in to Times Tables Rock Stars and practise your multiplication and division skills. Keep checking to see if we have sent you a challenge! Can you beat us?
Spellings
A great way to practise your spellings is by using our spelling learning platform: Spelling Shed. This allows you to practise your spellings in a fun and engaging way.
Click on the link below and start earning points!
In Y3 and Y4, Ed Shed spellings are set on a Thursday and are due the following Wednesday.
Welcome to Year 3
This year our focus author is Enid Blyton. We'll be finding out all about this person, including how many books they've written and the titles of these books. Discover more about Enid Blyton at https://www.enidblyton.co.uk/.
This meets the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Article 16 (Protection of Privacy) & Article 17 (Access to Information).
Year 3 English
Spring 1
During this term, we will be reading the book ‘Storm’ by Kevin Crossley-Holland. On a terrible night, Annie must brave a storm alone. Who knows what might happen? We will be looking at punctuating speech, using subordinate clauses, rhetorical questions and show not tell.
Afternoons in Year 3
This half term, we are learning about:
Spring 1
Computing- Dazzling Data
A17 – Access to information
History- Stone Age to Bronze Age
A17 – Access to information
Art- Clay Pots
A29 – Talents developed
RE- NPPR- Barack Obama
A17 - access to information
Music- Glockenspiel Stage 1
A24 - Talents Developed
French- Alphabet
A17 - access to information
Fun activities linked to our afternoon lessons:
History- Stone Age to Iron Age
A17 – Access to information
During this history topic, Year 3 will be learning about the Stone Age and how this period of time was recorded. We will look at how people lived during these time periods. This includes settlements, art and ways they got their food.
Try your own Stone Age Art
Computing- Dazzling Data
A29 - talents developed
This topic, we will be using Purple Mash to create a branching database.
Art- Clay Pots
A29 – Talents developed
RE- NPPR Barack Obama
A12- Respect for children's views
Music- Glockenspiel Stage 1
A31- Culture and Arts
Welcome to Year 4
This year our focus author is J.K. Rowling. We'll be finding out all about this author, including how many books they've written and the titles of these books. What can you find out about them? https://www.jkrowling.com/writing/
Why not take a look at our virtual library which includes some of JK Rowling's famous stories. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1422655051809161217
Fun activities linked to our class read: Harry Potter
Year 4 English
In English, Year 4 will be exploring ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black.
The book follows the Grace family who have had to move into a strange old house. Whilst moving in, they discover odd scratching noises inside the wall, but that is just the start of the peculiar things to come in this fantasy story.
We will be building on last term’s work by applying a range of sentence structures and adventurous vocabulary to add interest to our narative and descriptive writing, including using subordinate clauses in different positions, relative clauses, fronted adverbials and short sentences. We will also engage in more technical writing when writing a leaflet based on some of the mythical creatures found in Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by Tony DiTerlizzi.
Afternoons in Year 4:
This half term, we are learning about:
R.E.- Keeping the 5 pillars of Islam
A14 – Right to your own religion
DT- Programming & Electrical systems – Light Up Signs
A29 – Talents developed
Geography- Earthquakes and Volcanoes
A17 – Access to information
Science- Switched on
A24- Health and health services
Arts- Landscapes
A31 – Culture & Arts
Fun activities linked to our afternoon lessons:
RE- Keeping the 5 pillars of Islam
A14- Right to your religion
In RE this half term, our topic is Keeping the 5 pillars of Islam: What difference does it make? The children will be looking at what the 5 pillars of Islam are and how some Muslims practice them. They will also look at religious language used in prayer as well as the importance of prayer to Muslims. Children will have opportunities to make links between their own experiences and choices, and how the Muslims choose to practice the pillars.
DT- Programming & Electrical systems – Light Up Signs
A29- Develop talents
Our new DT topic is Programming & Electrical systems – Light Up Signs. Pupils will be challenged to make simple series circuits, which they can incorporate into decorative 'light box' signs of their own design. Pupils will produce labelled drawings and generate, develop and communicate their ideas through the use of prototypes. Pupils will also develop their evaluative skills – evaluating their work, both during and at the end of the project.
Circuit Symbols
Circuit symbols are explained in this video in a fun way. This is for Year 6 KS2 Students. BBC Bitesize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj44jxs/articles/zqryn9q
Science- Switched on
A24- health, water, food, environment
In Science, we will be focusing on our topic ‘Switched on’. Children will learn about all about electrical appliances, electricity, insulators and conductors. Pupils will create and construct their own electrical circuits and will investigate and effect an open and closed switch within a circuit. There will be many opportunities for the children to carry out research to answer questions, allowing them to be active in leading their own learning.
Electricity - Year 4
Art- Landscapes
A29- Talents developed
Our focus in Art this half term will be on Landscapes. We will be practising our mastery of art and design techniques with a painting focus - using watercolours. This will include confidently controlling painting tools; creating effects such as depth and distance; and understanding complimentary colours when painting landscapes. We will research the famous landscape artist William Turner and create representations of his work. By the end of the topic, we will have created our own watercolour painting of a landscape.
Geography- Earthquakes and volcanoes
A17- Access to information
In Geography this term, we will be focussing on volcanos and earthquakes.
We will look at recognising and naming famous volcanos, locating these and considering why this is important. We will also explore where earthquake disasters have occurred.
We will be identifying key aspects of physical and human geography as well as reading longitude lines and latitude lines on a map.
At the end of the topic, the children will have a chance to perform their knowledge by imagining they are part of a team of volcanologists sent to assess a volcano.