Meet the team: 

Mrs Gittins (Class Teacher)

Mrs Rowlands (Teaching Assistant)

Mrs Joynes (1:1 Teaching Assistant)

Here you will find our newsletters, photos and any important information about our class. Please pop back here to see what we have been doing during the term and to find out what is coming up.

Important Class Information

PE Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays: Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.

Reading Books: reading books will be changed Tuesdays and Fridays. Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and get your child to complete the reading task in the reading journal.

Lunchtimes: Children will be eating lunch in their houses (Apollo, Endeavour, Galileo and Phoenix), and houses will be rotated regularly. This provides children with the opportunity to mix with other year groups and to make new friends. 

Homework: A homework grid will be added to the website and will be due in on Friday 4th July.

Dates 

6th June: Mini Medics.

11th June: Whole school photograph.

13th June: FOBS Race Night.

16th June: Year 3/ 4 cricket tournament. 

18th June: Team Superstars Fundraiser.

26th June: District Athletics.

5th July: FOBS Summer Fair.

14th July: Class swap day.

18th July: End of Term (2pm)

Curriculum

This Term’s Topic: Water Power

This term, our learning will be centred around the theme of Water Power.

In Literacy, pupils will develop their oracy skills to retell a story before creating their own short story. They will then use their descriptive skills to write a setting description.

In Geography, children will deepen their understanding of the water cycle, identify and label key rivers and mountain ranges across the UK, examine significant geographical features of rivers, and explore how water can be harnessed as a source of power.

After half-term, we will be carrying out a river study in Bourton to collect data on depth and water flow as well as thinking about the plants and animals that live in and around the river. The children will use their previous understanding of rivers to study the River Windrush. 

During Science, pupils will investigate the structure of food chains.

In Art, the focus will be on developing shading techniques to create contrast and depth through the use of light and dark.

Within Religious Education, children will explore how festivals and acts of worship reflect core beliefs and values to Muslims.

In Wellbeing, pupils will learn to distinguish between safe and unsafe secrets, understand the concept of consent, differentiate between legal and illegal substances, and acquire basic first aid skills.

History: Pupils will be building on their understanding of chronology and looking at Viking invasions and the changes that occurred in Britain as a result of these.

Computing: pupils will learn to save images that will be used to create backdrops for a Greenscreen presentation where the children will retell a story. 

In Mathematics, the focus will be on interpreting data  and creating graphs in the context of statistics. We will then recap the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) using formal methods. 

Times Tables Rockstars: Regular practise TTRS will help pupils to retain knowledge that they can utilise facts in other mathematical learning. All pupils should have their login details and can play on phones or tablets!

Times Tables: It is important all pupils learn their timetables up to the 12 times table and know these by the end of year 4.  On Times Tables Rockstars, pupils can play 'Sound Check,' an MTC simulator that presents 25 multiplication questions (up to 12×12), with a six-second time limit for each question.

Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any queries.