Lower Key Stage 2
Welcome to Lower Key Stage Two
Year 3 teacher: Miss Ball
Year 3 teaching assistant: Mrs Portsmouth & Miss Lane
Year 4 teacher: Miss Ghaman
Year 4 teaching assistant: Mrs Bhogal
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
This half term will be looking at ‘Aesop’ and the fables he wrote in the Ancient Greek period. These are wonderful short stories with a moral or lesson to learn that your child will remember and share for years to come.
If you would like to find out more about Aesop and read some of his famous fables, please visit:
http://read.gov/aesop/index.html
The main skills that we will be consolidating through this unit are using expanded noun phrases effectively and developing a wider range of conjunctions, adverbs and punctuation. We will be using these to write our own fable based on the one we have read.
We will also be exploring non-fiction books and writing non-chronological reports this half term.
Afternoons in Year 3
This half term, we are learning about:
Art- Portraits
A31 - creative activities
History- Local Study Mining
A17 - access to information
Computing- Moving Pictures
A29 - talents developed
Science- Rock Detectives
A24 - best health
RE- Sacred Places
A12- Respect for children's views
Music- Let your spirit fly
A29- talents developed
DT- Victorian Mines- mechanisms
A29- talents developed
Fun activities linked to our afternoon lessons:
Science- Rock Detectives
Computing- Moving Pictures
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.- Finding reasons to care through religious stories
A14 – Right to your own religion
DT- Programming & Electrical systems – Light Up Signs
A29 – Talents developed
Geography- Counties and cities of the UK.
A17 – Access to information
Science- Switched on
A24- Health and health services
Arts- Landscapes
A31 – Culture & Arts
Fun activities linked to our afternoon lessons:
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.
Geography- Counties and cities of the UK
A17- Access to information
In Geography, we will be focusing on the counties and cities of the UK. We will look at recognising and naming the regions and counties of the UK as well as some major cities. We will be identifying key aspects of physical and human geography, using fieldwork to observe findings and completing a focus case study on Oxford. At the end of the topic, the children will have a chance to perform their knowledge by creating a travel brochure based on Oxford.
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.
RE- Finding reasons to care through religious stories
A14- Right to your religion
In RE this half term, our first topic will be ‘Finding reasons to care through religious stories’. Through this pupils will explore the values of justice, kindness and generosity. We will discuss what caring and kindness is as well as reflecting on how stories from the Bible depict these qualities. Pupils will consider how the religious actions of a person demonstrate kindness, with a particular focus on Doctor Barnardo. We will also be studying an additional topic related to the Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, Mother Teresa. The children will discover who she was, what she did for her local and wider community and have opportunities to discuss why she was an inspirational person. We will then make links to our own lives.
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.