Year 3 & 4 - Miss Cottle 2025 - 2026

Spring Term

This term, children in Year 3/4C will be learning about a wide range of exciting topics across the curriculum.

Reading

• Exploring The Nothing to see Here Hotel by Steven Butler with a focus on retrieval  and inference skills.
• Reading and learning from non-fiction texts about the Romans.
• Looking at comparison through the poem The Owl and the Pussycat.

Writing

• Developing skills in informative writing through the text types of instructions, newspaper and a non-chronological report.
• Writing to entertain, using The Nothing to see Here Hotel as inspiration.
• We will be focusing on combining types of clauses and sentences using subordinating conjunctions.

Maths

• This term will be focusing on measurement: length, mass, volume, money and time.

Science

• Studying Rocks and Forces and Magnets.

History

• Investigating the Roman Empire in the North East.

Geography

• Learning about the physical geography of Italy with a focus on volcanoes.

PSHE

• Exploring the theme of Money Matters and Aiming High.

RE

• Learning about what Christians believe about Jesus and why Lent is so important to Christians

Music

• Listening, appraising and performing “The Dragon Song”.

French

• Recognising and saying the animals in French

Computing

• Understanding Sound Stories, Coding and online safety.

PE

• Developing skills in Gymnastics, OAA, and Tennis. 
• PE is now on a Tuesday afternoon.