Class Teachers: Mrs Turk and Miss Hodgson

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Ford and Mrs Newman

2025-2026 Term 3

As I type, the school is looking beautiful, covered in a light dusting of snow and we can’t wait to get started again after the Christmas holidays. 

As Author Writers, we will be writing a biography on the life of the renowned scientist, Nikola Tesla.  We will also be launching our new Guided Reading sessions to develop the children's comprehension skills.  The children will also continue to practice spelling and handwriting two to three times per week.

In Maths, we will continue to practice multiplication.  Our focus this term will be the 4 times table.  During lessons, we will use this knowledge to multiply 2-digit or 3-digit numbers by 1-digit and will then move on to learning all about measuring.   

This term our enquiry is entitled, "How do we switch off?"  We will be learning that electricity is energy that is used for a wide variety of applications and that it can be ‘made’ from fossil fuels and renewable sources. The enquiry aims to be both practical in nature as the children learn how to build simple circuits as well as looking at the broader environmental use of energy.

2025-2026 Term 2

As Author Writers, we will be writing an adventure story based on the animation, “Tadeo Jones”.  We will be learning to use adverbs and adverbial phrases to add detail to our sentences.

In Maths, we will be practising multiplication. Year 3 will be recapping 2, 5s and 10s before learning to multiply and divide by 3, 4 and 8.  Year 4 will be recapping all the multiplication and division facts and learning strategies and tips to help them multiply quickly.  Ask them how you can tell if a number is in the three times table!

This term our enquiry, "Why do we live here?" The important thread in this enquiry is settlement. As both geographers and historians, we will explore why people settled in Salisbury and compare this to the Ancient Egyptian civilisation and why they settled next to the river Nile.  The children particularly loved getting wrapped up as a mummy and learning how to mummify a tomato!  Later this term, we will then look at the paintings of John Constable and learn how to draw using perspective.

2025-2026 Term 1

We have had a fantastic start to the new academic year.  The children have settled in well, particularly our new Year 3's.  This term we will be focusing on behaviours for learning and ensuring the children are off to a great start with their reading, handwriting and spelling.  If you would like to support your child at home, please continue to read with them as often as possible.  

As Author Writers, we will be exploring a wonderful picture book – Moonbird by Joyce Dunbar.  We will be focusing on extending our sentences and learning how to punctuate direct speech in order to write our own version of the story.

In Maths, we will be exploring the importance of place value.  The children will be learning how to partition numbers using part-whole models, Base 10 and Place Value counters, as well as developing their understanding of the value of each digit in a number.

This term our enquiry, "What is sound?" will mix science with engineering.  The children will explore how sounds can be made and recorded through a series of experiments and design their own product using their newfound knowledge. 

Please note that PE will now be taught on Monday mornings.

2024-2025: Term 5

In English this week, as Authors, we will begin our new unit of learning on narrative writing. We will be developing vocabulary, learning new grammar techniques and creating short sentence stacks. The children will then write their own version of The Journey by Aaron Becker. 

This week in spelling we will be learning to spell Y3/4 common exception words. Your child can use Spelling Shed to access a range of activities linked to the spelling rules and patterns they are learning in school. The children can access ‘Spelling Shed’ using their individualised username and password. Here is a link to the website Spelling Shed - The Science of Spelling

In Maths this term, as Mathematicians, we will begin by learning to tell the time to 5 minutes and to the minute. We will then move on to learning about decimals. The children will practice finding tenths and hundredths as well as ordering and comparing decimals. We will also continue learning the seven times-tables developing speed and accuracy. Your child can use Multiplication Tables Check - Mathsframe to practice at home.

Also, this week…
We will introduce our new Enquiry, ‘How do you feel the force?’ As Scientists, we will observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others. Compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet and identify some magnetic materials. As Engineers, we will design, make and evaluate a magnetic game. 
 

2023-2024

Well done to all the children in Astronomer Class, you have been very busy learning and having fun.  We went on our class trip to Cranborne Technology Centre, as part of our Enquiry 'Who stood here before us?'. The children went back in time to live like the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.