Years 3 & 4

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Summer Term 2025 Year 3 and 4

In Year 3 & 4, as we start the Summer Term, we would just like to thank everyone for supporting our school Motto:

‘Together with Christ Everyone Achieves More’

The curriculum in Year 3 and 4 this term:

Our unit this term is called ‘Treetop Explorers'

As the school year develops, we will post information and examples of the children’s work on the Year 3 and 4 pages of the school website or our school Twitter account.

Religion

Easter
Pentecost
Sharing in the Life of Christ
Special Roles and Responsibilities

English

The Zebra's Great Escape by Katherine Rundell

detective notes
wanted poster
letter writing
action scenes
poetry dialogue
own version of 'great escape' narrative

The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

retrieve information from non-fiction texts
explore the structure of a dilemma story
write a persuasive letter
plan and write a dilemma story.

Zoo by Anthony Browne

persuasive writing

Literacy and language Unit 6: Sugarcane Juice

Fiction: Rhyming Narrative Verse

Reading:

The children will:

explore the cultural context of Sugarcane Juice to improve their understanding of the plot, setting and characters
understand how Pratima Mitchell uses the senses to create vivid descriptions
look closely at how Pratima Mitchell creates tension and pace in a section of the story

Writing:

to use ideas and characters from Sugarcane Juice to write a new tension-filled episode of the stor

End of year 4 expectations for English.

Þ I can spell most words correctly. (Please speak to your child’s class teacher about the Y3 and Y4 National Curriculum spelling lists)

Þ I can write neatly, legibly and accurately, maintaining a joined style.

Þ I can use paragraphs to organise my writing although may not always be accurate

Þ I can use fronted adverbials and use a comma afterwards.

Þ I can evaluate and edit by proposing changes to grammar and vocabulary to improve consistency, including the accurate use of pronouns in sentences.

Þ I can extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions, including when, if, because, although.

Þ I can use sophisticated conjunctions, adverbs and prepositions to express time and cause.

Þ I can use the present perfect form of verbs in contrast to the past tense. Present perfect tense is used for activities that started in the past but are still true now, or have an effect on what is happening now. My friend Kashaan has lived in this town for five years. We have been best friends all that time

Þ I can use inverted commas accurately.

Þ I can use the possessive apostrophe accurately in words with regular and irregular plurals e.g. girls’, boys’, children’s.

Author Study

Each half term we will be focusing on a famous children’s Author. Our Key Authors this term are Tamsyn Murray and Anthony Browne.

We hope that the children will enjoy reading her texts and completing some of the activities we have planned for them so that they are enthused about reading!

Mathematics

These are the units of study we will be studying this term.