Welcome to Hedgehog Class
Our Team
Miss Trafford is our Class Teacher and Mrs Toes is our Teaching Assistant. This year, Mrs Toes is on an exciting journey to becoming a teacher herself and is completing her Initial Teacher Training throughout the course of the year.
English
During the Summer term, we will be basing our English lessons on a variety of genres, including: myths and legends, fictional stories with a historical setting, humorous poetry, explanation texts and fantasy/adventure stories. We will cover a number of vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objectives, such as: using a wide range of sentence types, indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophes and generating expanded noun phrases with adjectives, verbs and nouns.
Reading
We will take part in daily guided reading sessions, which will involve drawing inferences on characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and justifying these inferences with evidence from the text, predicting what might happen next and discussing grammar choices. There will also be opportunities for the children to read across the curriculum and independently.
Reading is such an important skill; it really unlocks all areas of the curriculum. We would ask parents to hear their child read daily, 5-10 minutes a night is all that is needed. As well as supporting your child read words, it is also useful to ask questions and check your child’s understanding of the text. You will see a KS2 reading prompts sheet at the bottom of this page, which will support you in this.
Reading books will be changed every Wednesday.
Maths
Throughout this term, we will be covering: Decimals, Multiplication and Division, Time and Statistics. We will also be doing lots of recapping, particularly of the objectives covered during Spring 1’s lockdown. We will have daily fluency sessions, whereby we will practise and develop our arithmetic skills and times tables.
Please continue to support your children’s learning by regularly asking questions or allowing them to play TT Rock Stars to improve their instant recall of the multiplication and division facts of all times tables (up to 12 times tables).
Science
The first half of the Summer term will see us focusing on Animals Including Humans. We will be focusing on the digestive system in humans, the different types of teeth humans have and food chains. There will be opportunities for the children to do some scientific enquiry and practical activities, which will be good fun! After May half term, our Science topic will be Sound – we will find out how sound is made and find patterns in more practical science activities!
Humanities
Our Humanities focus for Spring term is History and our topic is The Romans. We will be doing lots of research about key figures and the Roman Empire, we will develop our chronological understanding of the Roman invasion of Britain and we will be doing lots of Art and D&T linked to The Romans, too.
RE
‘What did Jesus do to save human beings?’ is our key question for Summer 1. After the May half term, we will be focusing on sacred texts, specifically The Bible.
PSHE (Healthy Minds)
Our focus for the first half term is ‘Relationships’. Within this, we will be focusing on feelings, friendships, solving conflicts and resolving differences. During the second half of the Summer term, we will be focusing on ‘Living in the wider world’, looking particularly at managing money.
PE
We will have PE twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesday. On Wednesdays, PE will be taught by Mr Merry.
Homework
Homework will be set on Google Classroom. It will be accessible from 3.15pm on Fridays and is expected to be handed in by the following Wednesday. Your child can upload evidence of their homework onto Google Classroom, or it can be recorded in their Learning Log.
Parent Partnership
We strongly believe in working closely with parents to ensure all children have a positive and successful experience in their education. We welcome any information you can share about your child and their individual learning experiences outside of school. This can be easily shared through the ClassDojo communication tool.
To keep you informed on specific activities in school, I will use ClassDojo to share news and photos of events. At the start of every half term, I will post the curriculum map showing what we will be doing across all subjects (however, this could be subject to change).
Supporting Your Child at Home
Our experience has shown us that the support children get from home has a positive impact on their learning. Below are some resources which you may find useful.
Below is a copy of the Year 3 and 4 common exception words. These words do not follow any rules and need to be learnt by heart.
Miss Trafford is our Class Teacher and Mrs Toes is our Teaching Assistant. This year, Mrs Toes is on an exciting journey to becoming a teacher herself and is completing her Initial Teacher Training throughout the course of the year.
English
During the Summer term, we will be basing our English lessons on a variety of genres, including: myths and legends, fictional stories with a historical setting, humorous poetry, explanation texts and fantasy/adventure stories. We will cover a number of vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objectives, such as: using a wide range of sentence types, indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophes and generating expanded noun phrases with adjectives, verbs and nouns.
Reading
We will take part in daily guided reading sessions, which will involve drawing inferences on characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions and justifying these inferences with evidence from the text, predicting what might happen next and discussing grammar choices. There will also be opportunities for the children to read across the curriculum and independently.
Reading is such an important skill; it really unlocks all areas of the curriculum. We would ask parents to hear their child read daily, 5-10 minutes a night is all that is needed. As well as supporting your child read words, it is also useful to ask questions and check your child’s understanding of the text. You will see a KS2 reading prompts sheet at the bottom of this page, which will support you in this.
Reading books will be changed every Wednesday.
Maths
Throughout this term, we will be covering: Decimals, Multiplication and Division, Time and Statistics. We will also be doing lots of recapping, particularly of the objectives covered during Spring 1’s lockdown. We will have daily fluency sessions, whereby we will practise and develop our arithmetic skills and times tables.
Please continue to support your children’s learning by regularly asking questions or allowing them to play TT Rock Stars to improve their instant recall of the multiplication and division facts of all times tables (up to 12 times tables).
Science
The first half of the Summer term will see us focusing on Animals Including Humans. We will be focusing on the digestive system in humans, the different types of teeth humans have and food chains. There will be opportunities for the children to do some scientific enquiry and practical activities, which will be good fun! After May half term, our Science topic will be Sound – we will find out how sound is made and find patterns in more practical science activities!
Humanities
Our Humanities focus for Spring term is History and our topic is The Romans. We will be doing lots of research about key figures and the Roman Empire, we will develop our chronological understanding of the Roman invasion of Britain and we will be doing lots of Art and D&T linked to The Romans, too.
RE
‘What did Jesus do to save human beings?’ is our key question for Summer 1. After the May half term, we will be focusing on sacred texts, specifically The Bible.
PSHE (Healthy Minds)
Our focus for the first half term is ‘Relationships’. Within this, we will be focusing on feelings, friendships, solving conflicts and resolving differences. During the second half of the Summer term, we will be focusing on ‘Living in the wider world’, looking particularly at managing money.
PE
We will have PE twice a week on Tuesdays and Wednesday. On Wednesdays, PE will be taught by Mr Merry.
Homework
Homework will be set on Google Classroom. It will be accessible from 3.15pm on Fridays and is expected to be handed in by the following Wednesday. Your child can upload evidence of their homework onto Google Classroom, or it can be recorded in their Learning Log.
Parent Partnership
We strongly believe in working closely with parents to ensure all children have a positive and successful experience in their education. We welcome any information you can share about your child and their individual learning experiences outside of school. This can be easily shared through the ClassDojo communication tool.
To keep you informed on specific activities in school, I will use ClassDojo to share news and photos of events. At the start of every half term, I will post the curriculum map showing what we will be doing across all subjects (however, this could be subject to change).
Supporting Your Child at Home
Our experience has shown us that the support children get from home has a positive impact on their learning. Below are some resources which you may find useful.
Below is a copy of the Year 3 and 4 common exception words. These words do not follow any rules and need to be learnt by heart.
