Years 3 & 4

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Autumn Term 2025

Year 3 and 4

In Year 3 & 4, as we start the Autumn 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 ‘From Stones to Shields'

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

Our Lady's Birthday
Belonging: The Christian Family/Baptism/ The Seven Sacraments
Reconciliation
Advent
Christmas

English

The First Drawing by Mordicai Gerstein

Character description
Diary entry
Recount
Main outcome: Write their own historical narrative

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth by Michelle Robinson

Identifying key features of instruction writing
Imperative verbs/ Fronted adverbials
Synonyms
Writing instructions

Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit

Setting descriptions
Diaries
Letters
Thought bubbles
Main outcome: Newspaper report

Literacy and language Year 3 Unit 1: Sand Wizards

Fiction: A Story with a Familiar Setting

Reading:

The children will:

link the key theme of friendship in Sand Wizards to their own experiences
identify particular words and techniques Jon Blake uses to create contrasting moods
think about how the description of the setting in Sand Wizards reflects the character's feelings

Writing:

to write two descriptions of a beach setting which show contrasting moods and feelings

Literacy and language Year 3 Unit 2: A Tune of Lies

Fiction: A Story with a Familiar Setting

Reading:

The children will:

connect and explore the central themes and ideas of friendship and lying in A Tune of Lies by making connections with other texts and their own experience
recognise and understand the features of a playscript
explore how characters change and develop throughout the play.

Writing:

to write a new ending to the play, including some new ideas for action, stage directions and dialogue.

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 Author this term is Dick King Smith.

We hope that the children will enjoy reading his 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.