Welcome to our fabulous class for Year 3 and 4 pupils!
A bit about us…
Class 3 is made up of year 3 and year 4 pupils, who are transitioning into KS2. Mr Vincent is the class teacher and he is supported by Ms Kitching.
In Class 3, we do a lot of fun activities throughout the year in all of our lessons, which you will see on our regularly updated Class Dojo Story. This is also an important time for year 4 children who complete the multiplication check, to assess their recall of multiplication tables to 12. In years 3 and 4 we spend plenty of time preparing children for this assessment.
As children move into KS2, they develop their confidence and independence. Although we work extremely hard, we have a lot of fun too with our exciting, engaging curriculum. To find out more about our curriculum, you can view our Long Term plans below or read the whole-school curriculum offer by clicking here.
Things you should know:
*Each child is given a reading book to read at home. Children will be listened to reading during shared reading sessions, as well as by different adults in school. Reading at home is expected and encouraged; we aim for at least 3 times a week as this will really help your children’s progress.
*Your child will bring home ten spellings each week to learn for a spelling test on Friday.
*One of our key focuses in numeracy is times tables, ensuring children are ready for the multiplication check in year 4. Every child, from Year 2 onwards, is expected to complete 20 minutes of multiplication practise each week on the TTRockstars app.
Class Three’s Planning Documents
English Long Term Planning
Y3 & 4 Cycle A Y3 & Y4 Cycle B
Foundation Subjects Long Term Planning
Class 3 Cycle A Class 3 Cycle B
What have Class Three been up to?
Back to school! September 2025
It has been fantastic to see all of the children back in school over the last couple of weeks. Every new school year is very exciting, but it can also be a very worrying and anxious time for some, especially those children who are moving up from Year 2 into Year 3. So far everyone has been absolutely fantastic! Everyone has come back to school with a really positive attitude, and everyone is trying really hard to set a good example and begin the year in the right way.
It’s been a busy start! We’ve begun looking at our new class reader (Flotsam) in English. In Maths we have gone back to looking at the basics of place value and making sure our knowledge of different numbers is secure before moving on. We have also done a lot of PSHE work so far to help everyone settle in to class. We’ve talked about our emotions, and how different (and new) situations can be challenging. We have voted for our new school council members, started looking at Handball skills in PE, begun our new Music topic looking at creating a composition and designed some slingshot cars in D&T.
We held our school council vote…
We practised our throwing and catching skills in Handball…
We started our new Music topic by creating some improvised scenes to a piece of music…
June 2025
This month, it’s really felt like the countdown to Summer as the weather has been really warm and sunny and we’ve been continuing to work really hard in class. In English, we’ve been continuing to work on Coraline and base our learning in lesson on the text. In Geography, we’ve been exploring Spain and learning about different compass directions and using them to locate the different cities and some of Spain’s physical features. In PE, we’ve been working on the different skills we need to be good runners, jumpers and throwers. We also had an Ultimate Frisbee competition in school led by Education Enterprise. In Science, we’ve been learning about how light travels and looking at how different light affects shadows and their lengths.
Our English lessons this term have been focused around ‘Coraline’. We’ve been building up to writing a short story based on the book. To help us do this, we did a drama based lesson where we worked in groups and each took two important scenes to create either a freeze-frame, or a short role-play about.
In Geography our topic is Spain. We’ve been using our knowledge of the 8 different compass points to locate different cities and physical features of Spain.
In PE we’ve been working on our skills associated with Rounders and Athletics. We also had Education Enterprise come in and run an Ultimate Frisbee competition.
In Science, our topic has been ‘Light’. We’ve ben looking at where different light sources come from, how we see, how light travels and how shadows are formed/change.
May 2025
It’s been a really short half-term as we began our Summer term. We only had 4 weeks of school before we broke up, but Class 3 has still be as busy as ever! We started and finished our new Science topic on sound as well as working on fitness in PE and learning all about jazz music in Music. In English we’ve also started our new class reader ‘Coraline’, and we had a go at writing diary entries from the perspective of Coraline as she moved into her new house. We also completed a piece of descriptive writing. As part of our reading offer in school, we also hosted a Class 3 reading event for parents, which was really good, and it was great to see so many people turn up. We have celebrated VE Day while also completing our Art topic on animated puppets.
In Science we’ve been exploring ‘Sound’. As part of our topic, we’ve been exploring how sound travels, different sound sources, looking at the different parts of the ear and then completing practical experiments looking at different sounds.
In Music, we’ve been learning all about the origins of Scat and Ragtime music. We’ve been learning to perform different songs on the glockenspiels, before adding a call and response element. We’ve also attempted to sing songs such as, ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’ and performing our own call and response along to different scat style songs.
In English we’ve started reading ‘Coraline’. We had a go at writing our own diary entries from the perspective of Coraline, when she first moved into her new house. We hot-seated some of our class, to put them into the mind of Coraline, and then we asked them questions to get ideas for our diaries.
We also held our Class 3 Reading Event in school. We invited parents into school to talk about how we teach reading and give some tips and ideas for reading at home.
In PE we’ve been looking at Fitness. Each week we designed our own circuit thinking about activities we could do which worked on different parts of our bodies. The weather was amazing during every PE lesson, so everyone really was working hard!
This month we also celebrated VE Day in school. We looked at what VE Day is and the history behind it. We then did some work looking at VE Day and watched a video. We finished off the day by celebrating with a small class ta party.
April 2025
It’s only been a short month in school before we broke up for our Easter holidays. It was a very busy end to term as we were finishing off our Art and D&T projects, finishing off our class reader, ‘Charlotte’s Web’, and working on our end of topic assessments. We had three days back in school after Easter, so we started our work on Fitness in PE, and began our next topics in Spanish and Geography, where we are exploring the geographical features of Spain.
In Art we finished off our seascape artwork which was inspired by the work of Alice Kettle. We looked at how we could combine cloth, thread and paint to create out artwork.
In D&T we finished off our work which was based on textiles. We created templates and then used our different stitching techniques to create cushions.
After Easter we came back to school and got stuck straight into our new PE topic which is Fitness. We looked at different activities which we could do to improve our aerobic fitness.
March 2025
We have been so busy in class this month! Some of our children have been away on their first ever residential to Newby Wiske Hall, while those children were away, the rest of us visited Willington Library where we took part in a Shakespeare workshop recreating scenes from the play Macbeth. We have also celebrated different religious festivals including Holi and Eid while doing some work on British Science Week. Finally, we celebrated St Patrick’s Day in class. It has been such a busy month, and we are all now working away counting down towards Easter with assessment week still to come this week. As well as all of our other celebrations, we have moved onto developing our Orienteering and Netball skills in PE, carried on working on Charlotte’s Web in English (where we had a very lively class debate about Wilbur) and worked very hard on our first block of work on Fractions in Maths.
We visited Willington Library where we had a Shakespeare workshop looking at Macbeth. The children absolutely loved getting into character and recreating some of the scenes…especially some of the fight and battle scenes. Everyone took part and really enjoyed exploring one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays.
To celebrate St Patrick’s Day, we looked at who St Patrick was, why he was an important and significant individual in History and today, and then we created our own Irish themed collages.
Towards the end of the month we celebrated Eid in class. We talked about what it means to Muslims to take part in Ramadan and then how they celebrate once their fast is over. We tried some traditional Eid food and then created our own Ramadan sun catchers in the shape of a lantern.
February 2025
This month has been as busy as ever in Class 3. We have been working hard, continuing with all of our subjects while celebrating Safer Internet Day, Children’s Mental Health Week and St David’s Day. In Maths, we’ve moved onto multiplication, division, length and perimeter. In PE we have learnt our new dance and continued to develop our volleyball skills. In Music, we’ve been learning about Caribbean music, particularly Calypso style music. The class loved singing and performing their own version of a Calypso style song while also playing glockenspiels. This month has also been Safer Internet Day, where we looked at how we can spot scams online, and what we should do if we think we have been scammed. Towards the end of the month we made our own fruity tarts as part of our D&T topic on ‘seasonal ingredients’, and made our clay characters in Art from our ‘Telling Stories Through Sculpture’ topic. We have also looked at cloud formation in Geography and continued with States of Matter in Science.
In Maths, we’ve been working on different ways of dividing numbers. By the end of our topic we were really good at dividing a 3-digit number by a one digit number. We then continued to work on carrying digits over and remainders. It was tricky at times, but all of the children did brilliantly.
We then moved onto looking at length and perimeter.
In PE, we’ve continued to work on our Volleyball skills and our class dance. By the end of the topic, all of the children were brilliant at dancing in unison and in canon.
In Music we’ve been looking at music from the Caribbean. In particular, Calypso style music. We learned about the background to the music and where the style originated from. We then produced our own performance of a Calypso inspired song using glockenspiels and singing.
February was also Safer Internet Day. We followed a BBC live lesson and then discussed what different scams looked like. We were really good at spotting what might be a scam and what might not be a scam. We then completed activity mats about the day.
In Geography, our topic is ‘Water’. We’ve been looking at the different processes within the water cycle, and then we had a go at making our own clouds and making cloud coverage checkers to measure how much of the sky was covered by clouds.
January 2025
Everyone has come to school with a fantastic attitude after Christmas. We have all settled back into school really well and we’ve been working hard across all of our subjects. We’ve been getting stuck into our brand new topics. while still revisiting everything we learnt before Christmas. In English we’ve begun our new class reader (Charlotte’s Web), in D&T we’ve been preparing to make our own fruit tarts using seasonal ingredients, and in PE we’ve started learning skills associated with Volleyball and Dance! We finished off the month by celebrating Chinese New Year in class.
In English, we’ve started to read Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. The class are really enjoying getting to know the characters so far and following the events of what happens to Wilbur. We completed our first piece of longer writing by writing a non-chronological report based on a spider. Here were some of our finished pieces…
In Maths we took a bit of a break from our work on the four operations by exploring Area, and looking at how we can find and compare the area of different shapes. We used sticky notes to estimate the area of different objects, and then we were set a challenge to find the area of the top of our desks.
In D&T, we started our new topic on ‘Eating Seasonally’. We have been looking at where different ingredients come from around the world, and then we looked at which ingredients we might find in our country based on which season they grow in. We did some product research into the classes favourite fruits, and then designed our own fruity tarts using that product research. We can’t wait to make them now!
In PE we started our new topic on Volleyball. We began by practising our hand-eye co-ordination and getting used to moving our feet towards the ball. We then moved onto learning the ‘dig’ shot and had a competition against our partners to score into their hoops.
In History we’ve started work on the Romans. We looked at rulers of the Roman Empire and then had a go at recreating some of the Roman armies famous tactical formations! We tried formations including, ‘the tortoise’ and ‘the wedge’.
Finally, we finished off the month by celebrating Chinese New Year. We all made lucky envelopes and put a chocolate coin in. We also tried some Chinese food and learnt about the how the order of the animals for each Chinese year was decided.
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