Welcome to Beech Class Year 3/4
Breathtaking Beech
Our Teaching Team is:
Mrs Christie, Mr Betts, Miss Hall & Mrs Brougham
We are really excited about the year ahead. Our whole team are looking forward to working with you all; working hard but also having some fun. We will be creating lots of super memories with each and every one of you.
If you need any help or assistance please get in touch with your class teacher or school office.
A few things to remember:
If your child requires an inhaler please ensure that they have it in school every day.
- Please bring a named water bottle to school each day.
- We enter, from 8.40am, through the main entrance and exit, at 3.30pm, through the outdoor classroom from the blue pod.
- Please check all your clothes are labelled, especially coats and jumpers!
- Please remember our school uniform policy.
Please note the following days for your child to come to school ready in their PE kit.
Hair should be tied back and removes earrings before school. If it is their swimming day, could children please come in their PE kit and bring their Swimming Kit to change into. (no costumes under clothes):
Please note that this half-term Beech class will be having PE on Friday afternoons.
If you would like to know more about how to help your child at home, please use the links below to take you to helpful pages on our website:)
Our Home Learning:
Check out the 'Home Learning Activities' for this term in your Home Learning Book & remember all your logins, usernames and passwords are stuck in the back! There are weekly tasks (see below) and a range of Maths, English and Topic based activities to choose from each term.
Weekly Tasks:
Spellings:
Your current 'set' of 5 spelling words from your 'Super Spelling' booklet, which will be tested through the week.
Reading:
Each time an adult listens to you read, please record this on your Booklog Bookmark and tick your home learning sheet. All reading can be recorded not just your school reading book.
Check out all the eBooks on the Activelearn website (and visit your Home page = games = rewards = Your Tree House plus Maths games!):
ActiveLearn: Login (activelearnprimary.co.uk)
Times Tables:
Times tables will be taught in school and should also be practiced at home. Remember you can use the Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS) website to practice.
Website: Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)
Click the link below to open the Mundy Junior Home Learning Webpage.
This has more information about home learning at our school. It also has a 'Spelling' link which gives you access to all our spelling booklets (at home), a 'Reading' link - with information about reading and how to use Activelearn, and a 'Timestables' link - with information how to log in to TTRS.
If you scroll to the bottom of the home learning webpage there is a Year 3 & 4 Home Learning Zone with details of your current home learning activities and a PARENTS ONLY page!
Below are our topic subjects for 2024 - 2025
Our Humanities this term is:
Powerful Potions!
This half term, we will be exploring and experimenting with different potions. From creating Newspaper Reports about stolen potions in English to creating our own potions and potion packaging in Art, who knows what magical powers will be unlocked. The class will also gain inspiration from our book George's Marvellous Medicine.
This half term in Science we are learning about:
Properties and changes of materials.
Get ready to learn all about different materials, their properties and how we can change them. In our lessons, we’ll be exploring what different materials they are, what they are made of and how we can change different materials!
Below are some link to websites that you may find useful, please let us know what you think of them.
Remember to regularly visit our school library, and enjoy the wide variety of books it has on offer.
Pick a reading book to read in school and at home.
Have you tried the Mundy Reading Challenge yet? Ask in the school Library for more information.
Our Class reader for this half term is Space Band by Tom Fletcher.
George, Neila and Bash are the worst band on Earth. George wants them to be brilliant - but Neila has stage fright, and Bash is too distracted by his obsession with stars, aliens and faraway planets. But what they lack in talent and confidence, they make up for in heart.
They're determined to blow their friends away at their school Battle of the Bands contest. But the moment they start to play... they're beamed up into space!!!
Now the kids face an even bigger challenge: Battle of the Bands, but the intergalactic version. They're competing against alien bands from every galaxy! And if they don't win, they might never make it home again... can the worst band on Earth become the best band in the universe?
An intergalactically awesome tale of celebrating difference, believing in yourself, and the power of friendship. 