Class Teachers - Mrs A Jarvis & Mrs L Brown

Welcome to the Seals class

🌊🦕 Year 3/4 – Summer Term Adventures! 🦕🌊
This term, we’re exploring a fascinating enquiry question: Have dinosaurs and humans shared the same water source? This big idea will guide our learning across subjects, as we investigate water, history, science and storytelling.

In geography, we’ll be learning about rivers, focusing on our very own River Lud in Louth. We’ll discover how rivers form, explore their features, and learn where our water comes from and why it’s so important. We’ll even get outside and conduct some real-life fieldwork to collect data like real geographers!

Our science lessons link closely, as we explore the states of matter – solids, liquids and gases – and how materials change when heated or cooled. We'll learn about evaporation and condensation, and how these changes are all part of the water cycle, which we’ll recreate through actions, investigations and writing.

In English, we’re taking inspiration from the award winning book The Rhythm of the Rain by Grahame Baker Smith, a selection of poems in Once Upon a Raindrop and learning about the water cycle in The Adventures of Walter The Water Droplet by Clare Fearon. We’ll be exploring a range of genres including  explanation texts, and narrative writing, building towards exciting independent writing projects.

In Guided Reading, we’ll learn how to locate and summarise information, infer meaning from images and diagrams, and explore poetry linked to our watery theme. We’ll also practise reading with fluency and expression.

In design and technology, we’re getting hands-on with levers and linkages, designing and making our own moving cards and learning how products are planned and improved. In computing, we’re becoming programmers, using loops and repetition to create our own sequences and animations.

We’re also celebrating Diversity Week, where we’ll read Julian is a Mermaid and explore themes of identity, acceptance and family. In RWV, we’ll reflect on what it means to live a good life, exploring both Jewish and Humanist perspectives and how beliefs are put into action.

In PE, we’re developing our skills in football and tennis, focusing on teamwork, control, and tactics. In music, we’ll be listening to and appraising beautiful water-themed pieces such as Handel’s Water Music, Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave, and La Mer by Debussy.

TERM 6 PE DAYS WILL BE  Wednesday and Friday

As part of our careers learning, we’ll be thinking about the jobs that link to our enquiry – like hydrologists, environmental consultants, and water quality specialists – and how our learning could shape our futures.

It’s set to be a term full of investigation, creativity and collaboration. We can’t wait to see where our learning takes us – let’s make a splash this summer! 💧

Kind Regards, 

Mrs Jarvis and Mrs Brown