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Spring Term 2025 Year 3 and 4

In Year 3 & 4, as we start the Spring 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:

The unit is called ‘Home and Away'.

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

• Christmas
• The Epiphany
• Jesus Teaches us how to Pray
• The Old Testament
• Lent
• Holy Week=

 English

Literacy and language

Fiction: Rhyming Narrative Verse

Reading:

The children will:

• make links between the story and their own experiences and prior reading, and between the story and the tradition of oral storytelling and ballads
• explore the language in the story, particularly the use of synonyms
• use evidence from the text to explore the characters
• learn by heart and recite a section of The Bogey Men and the Trolls Next Door

Writing:

• to write a new story using some of the characters from The Bogey Men and the Trolls Next Door

Non-fiction: Information Texts/ Journalistic Accounts

Reading:

The children will:

• consolidate their understanding of how explanation texts are structured to make information clear, using features e.g. headings, subheadings, pictures and boxed text
• read and evaluate a range of explanation texts
• understand how visual aids such as flow charts help the audience to understand complicated processes more easily.

Writing:

• To write about a pupils life at stage school based on a radio interview

We will also complete units based around the stories 'Small in the City' and 'Our Tower'

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 term we will be focusing on a famous children’s Author.  Our Key Author this term is  Grace Nicholls.

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.

• Number and Place Value
• Addition and Subtraction
• Shape
• Multiplication facts
• Division
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Statistics
• Measures: Money
• Measures: Length

Year 4 will be completing their times table challenge at the end of this year. 

Don't forget to keep practising times table facts. 

Click on the link to access the Mathsframe website to test your knowledge. Mathsframe Multiplication Tables Check

Science

• Solids and liquids
• Investigating gases
• Heating and cooling
• Water/ changing state
• Evaporation and condensation

Geography/History

• Our Local Area
• Island Life

Art / DT

• The artist Georges Seurat
• Pointillism
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Computing

• Introduction to Logo

Music

• Recorders
• Charanga
• Play Songs

PE

• Swimming (y4)
• Ball skills
• Team games

Spanish

•  My Town - The children will learn to develop their intercultural understanding by being introduced to the sights of some typical Spanish-speaking cities. They will also learn to describe places in a town, count to 100 and give their address in Spanish
• Let’s Go! - The children will learn to develop their conversational skills via some new topics: transport, direction and movement. They will learn to conjugate the            high-frequency verb ‘to go’ and use it in context.

A Visit From The Police Community Support Officers

Animals in Hands

Design and Technology - Mini Greenhouses

Coventry - City of Culture

Planting Seeds

Computing - Coding and Debugging