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 History/ Geography, where we will be finding out about our local area! We will be conducting a local study discovering physical and human features in Chesterfield.

In English, we will be using 'Small in the City' by Sydney Smith as a stimulus. We will be writing a letter of advice to help the character whose found themselves lost in the city. Following this, we will be writing our own diary entry from the perspective of the lost character!

In RE we will be investigating why the bible is so important to Christians, and in Art and Design, we will be creating our own crooked spire sculpture.

In Maths, In Y3 and Y4, the focus is on place value, representing numbers up to 10,000 in multiple ways. Following this, we will be looking at addition and subtraction, adding up to 2 4-digit numbers with and without exchanging.

What are we reading this half term?

Author of the half term: Swapna Haddow

About the author:

Swapna Haddow lives in London with her karate-chopping,swash-buckling son (his words not hers), her thirty-something, age-sensitive husband and Archie the Dog. She spends her time writing, eating cake and making sure her son doesn’t flatten her husband when he attempts to master his human cannonball trick. Swapna Haddow is the multi award-winning children's author of the Dave Pigeon series, which has received rave reviews since first publishing in 2016 and went on to win three regional awards in the UK and was shortlisted for the prestigious Sainsbury's Children's Book Award.