Spring 1 2025

This half term, the Year 3/4 Falcons are learning...

Collective Worship

Our values are Respect, Love, Forgiveness, Service, Friendship and Peace. These values underpin our curriculum.

Throughout this half term, we are learning about what each value means and how we can promote each one through our daily actions to make a positive contribution to our school and the wider community. We are reading, listening to and responding to bible stories, which teach Christians about the importance of our values in daily life.

Don't forget to complete your values task at home - it could be included on our next newsletter!

RE

This half term, we are learning about Jesus and we will be thinking about the following question:

• Why do Christians believe Jesus is the Son of God?

Through our RE lessons, we will be deepening our understanding of the faiths of Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and Islam.

Throughout our RE lessons we answer 'Big Questions', which give us the opportunity to discuss and debate open-ended questions that have many possible answers.  These questions broaden our thinking, acting as a springboard to new ideas and opinions. 

English

This half term, we will be focusing on two wonderful books. We will start off this half term studying a book called Wisp: A Story of Hope by Zana Fraillon. After that, we will move on to another text called The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. We will be using our reading skills to gain a deeper understanding of the characters, settings and plot within the text. We also have a variety of opportunities to write for different audiences and purposes:

• to write a narrative

• to write a persuasive letter

Reading Plus

This half term, we are accessing Reading Plus on a weekly basis in school. Every child is to complete a minimum of 5 reading sessions per week.  The aim of this programme is to improve children's reading and comprehension skills, by quickly adapting to meet the exact needs of every learner. Any sessions not completed by the end of the week in school, should be completed for homework.

Maths

In our daily lessons, we are learning about the following topics:

• Multiplication and division facts 

• Calculating with multiplication and division

• Time

Please ensure that your child has secure knowledge of the times-tables up to twelve multiplied by twelve, alongside the corresponding division facts. These should be practiced at home on a regular basis through Times Tables Rock Stars. Our Year 4 pupils have their Multiplication Tables Check coming up so it is important that they are practicing their times tables regularly both at home and in school to prepare for this.

Science

In Science this half term, our Year 3 Falcons are learning about everyday materials.

In Science this half term, our Year 4 Falcons are learning about animals including humans.

Please make sure that your child learns all the vocabulary definitions and facts that are listed on their Knowledge Organiser, so that they are fully prepared for their Science lessons. This knowledge will be tested in a quick quiz at the beginning of each lesson. A copy of this document is available on our class page and will be stuck in your child's Homework Book at the beginning of each half term.

PSHE

This half term, we will be learning about living in the wider world.

PE

In our PE lessons, we are focusing on target games this half term.

Art

In Art, we will be exploring Parietal Art which is also known as Cave Art. We will be learning about the skills and techniques used when creating this style of artwork before creating our own pieces of Parietal Art.

Geography

In Geography this half term, we are learning about East Anglia which is a region of the UK.

Please make sure that your child learns all the vocabulary definitions and facts that are listed on their Knowledge Organiser, so that they are fully prepared for their Geography lessons. This knowledge will be tested in a quick quiz at the beginning of each lesson. A copy of this document is available on our class page and will be stuck in your child's Homework Book at the beginning of each half term.

Junior Jam

We have specialist French, Computing and Music teachers from Junior Jam who come into school to teach the children these subjects.