Class Teachers - Mrs A Jarvis & Mrs L Brown

Welcome to the Seals class

We hope you've had a lovely summer and that you're looking forward to joining your new year 3/4 class in Term 1!  

This term, we will be investigating one big question across our history, art and music lessons – ‘Was it better to live in the Stone age, Bronze age or Iron age?’.  

This term in English and Guided Reading, we will focus on two different texts. The first is ‘The Wild Way Home’ a wonderful adventure story by Sophie Kirtley. The second is a non-fiction text which will support our enquiry question by helping us to explore more about the Stone, Bronze and Iron ages.   

In RE, our focus will be on Hinduism and we will be learning about some of the key values held by members of that faith. We will be learning about ‘Being me in the world’ in PSHE.   In Computing, we will be learning how to use and navigate the parts of the school computer system that will support our learning in key stage two.  Our Spanish focus will be introductions and instructions.  In Maths, we will be learning place value, addition and subtraction and times tables this term. We will be focussing on sound in Science.   

PE days in Term 1 are every Monday and Wednesday.  Children will be learning to play cricket and enjoying OAA (Outdoor and Adventurous Activities) and team building.  Please can children arrive at school wearing their PE kit (a black jumper or school jumper, academy PE t-shirt or a plain white t-shirt and black leggings/joggers or shorts).  If your child has an after-school club with JB Sports, please can they arrive in PE kit that day. We would also like to remind you that earrings need to be removed on these days please.  Newly pierced ears can be covered with a plaster instead. 

Learning at Home: As a school, we are continuing to have a big push on learning our multiplication tables, which will help the children in many aspects of their Maths lessons and to prepare for the Y4 Multiplication check. It would be a huge help if parents can encourage their children to log onto TT Rock Stars regularly and get those times down! Daily reading at home for pleasure will also significantly benefit your child; this can be any text by different authors, from school, home or the library, as well as newspapers, magazines or any other reading material! 

Thank you for your continued support with your child’s learning.  

Mrs Jarvis and Mrs Brown