Year 3 and 4- Beech

Updated 17.09.25

 Welcome to Beech Class!

We are Year 3 and 4. Our teachers are Miss Oliver on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs Douglas teaches us on Thursday, and Friday.

Our teaching assistants are Mrs Roberts, Miss Keeble and Mrs Wallace.

PPA is covered by Mrs Mills

These are our classroom rules that we agreed together:

Don't distract people

Put your hand up

Respect each other

Be kind and honest

Listen to others

Follow rules

The current Christian Value that the school is focussing on is : THANKFULNESS

Class Timetable

Our topics for learning:

Our Humanities curriculum has been divided over the year with 3 History units and 3 Geography units.

Autumn 1:

History: Beech Class will be studying the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age. The enquiry question asks the children which of these ages they would prefer to live in so they will be looking at how people lived, from Skara Brae to the Amesbury Archer. They will look at evidence to understand how we have all this knowledge about civilisations from many thousands of years ago.

Autumn 2

Geography: The first topic will be a study of volcanoes and understanding why people live close to them. The children will first learn about the construction of the Earth followed by how mountains are formed. Then they will learn about what causes a volcano to erupt and then how the movement of tectonis plates can cause earthquakes and tsunamis.

Science:

Autumn 1:

Animals including humans: movement and nutrition.

The children will be looking at the role of the skeleton, how to recognise the main bones in the body, and understand how muscles are used for movement. This will be followed by developing how food is important for energy and why humans need to eat different food groups and a balanced diet to be healthy.

Autumn 2:

Living things - Classification and changing habitats.

In this unit, Beech class will learn to classify living things such as vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. They will then learn how habitats change and the impact of changing seasons on them. The children can then look at how humans and natural disasters have impacted habitats.

P.E

We have PE on a Monday and Thursday .

PE kits can be kept in school and taken home every half term to be washed. 

PE kits is a smart white T-shirt, blue shorts, blue jogging bottoms and hoodies in cooler weather.

Earrings need to be removed for lessons.

SWIMMING

This will take place during the Summer Term and information will be provided nearer the time.

Home Learning:

In Year 3 and 4  'Home Learning' means regular reading, practising spellings and times tables each week.

Reading: We recommend your child reads to you a minimum of 3 times per week, as well as reading to themselves. Please make a note of what has been read at home in your child's reading journal.

Spelling: This could be practised as often as you want and can be learned as individual words as well as children trying to write them in a sentence. 

Times Tables: We also recommend practising times tables at home once a week and each child has a membership with 'Times Tables Rockstars' to help them do this ( weblink at the bottom of this page).

There will also be a more creative half term project. This can be worked on at home over a few weeks.

We have attached the statutory words that children should be able to spell for Year 3 and 4 which you can have a look at with your child if you wish.

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