Year 3 & Year 4 (Bamford, Castleton & Edale)

Welcome.

Welcome to Year 3 & Year 4. We have three, parallel mixed age classes: Bamford, Castleton and Edale. Please take a look at the information below to find out what we will be learning about this half term, key days of the week, and do check out our gallery!

Thank you,

Mr Wood, Mrs Turner, Ms Kappes and Mrs Newman.

Key days each week.

	Bamford	Castleton	Edale
Monday	PE (please bring your PE kit in a bag to school)
Tuesday		Please bring your reading books (Library trolley and Book Band Book) into school every day	Please bring your reading books (Library trolley and Book Band Book) into school every day
Wednesday		PE (please bring your PE kit in a bag to school)
Thursday	Please bring your reading books (Library trolley and Book Band Book) into school every day
Friday	Spelling test	Spelling test	Spelling test PE (please bring your PE kit in a bag to school)

What are we learning this half term?

This half term, our focus will be on Science, we will be investigating how to make a complete electrical circuit!

In English, we will be using 'Hello Lighthouse' by Sophie Blackall as a stimulus. We will be creating a non-chronological report all about lighthouses as well as writing a setting description inspired by the illuminating illustrations in this text!

In RE we will be exploring Mary's role in the Christmas Story in preparation for Christingle, and in Design Technology, we will be creating our own working lighthouse!

In Maths, In Y3 and Y4, the focus is on multiplication and division. They will be using their knowledge of multiplication and division facts up to the 12 times tables.