Year 3 and 4

Summer 1 2025

 

Class information

 

Year 3 / 4 is the lower key stage 2 class at Cambois Primary School. We are taught by Miss Mason and supported by Mrs Palmer, Miss McBriarty, and Miss Routledge (on Thursdays). We also have Mrs Gooch supporting us this half term and we love having her in class!

In the morning, we have a phonic and alternate guided reading/spelling lesson followed by maths and literacy lesson each day. We follow a creative curriculum in the afternoon, including Art, Music, computing, French and PSHE. 

 

Maths

 

In Summer 1, children will be consolidating their knowledge on fractions before progressing onto decimals, engaging in a range of both fluency and reasoning tasks to ensure deeper understanding. They will also be looking at capacity and mass. and time. We also have the privilege of continuing to be a selected pilot school of Mastering Number from NCETM. This supports children with their multiplication skills, alongside our Timetable Rockstars app which the children have logins for and challenge each other - and their teachers - to competitions. Year 4 children are also practicing their tables via TTRS Sound check, which mimics the times table test which they will complete in Summer 2. This term we will be consolidating all the times tables in a variety of ways to support their understanding of number.

 

Literacy

 We are continuing our focus on the text 'Macavity' by T.S.Eliot, and will be engaging in range of creative writing opportunities. 

 
Oracy Skills within Literacy
 
In our class we have been working on building our oracy skills, engaging in a range of Literacy strategies such as hot seating, role playing, drama and reasoning to develop and support our writing. 
 
P.E 
 
Our P.E days in Year 3 and 4 are Tuesday and Friday. Please make sure your child arrives at school in the correct P.E kit. Children are currently learning gymnastics with our instructor Sophie.
 
 
 
 
PSHE
 
In PSHE, our focus is on Relationships and Changing Me This will include:
 
 
Science
 
Our Science topic in Summer 1 is all about PLANTS
 
We will be learning to:
 
Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants; roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.

Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth  (air, light, water and nutrients from the solid, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant 

Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants

Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal
Art and DT
 
Beautiful Botanical art
 
We will be looking at and comparing a range of botanical art pieces and the different styles artists use. We will be sketching and painting flowers and fruit and exhibiting them via video. We will also be doing botanical weaving, creating weaved structures from plants.
 
We will also be looking at mosaics to tie in with our Roman topic.
 
Humanities
 
 
In history, we will be exploring the Romans and investigating the every day lives of the Romans and how their invasion changed our own everyday lives, from inventions to traditions. We will be looking to visity some local sites to deepen our knowledge through experiential learning.
  
 
MFL - French
 
In French, we will be learning how to say our favourite foods!
 
Computing
 
In computing this half term, we are focusing on e-mails and other forms of communication using our Purple Mash scheme of work. We don't just use this in computing: our teaching staff set cross-curricular games and quizzes to make learning fun and we get to tinker with our skills, which we love to do. We continue to use our Ipads for TTRS and Bedrock too!