Our class teacher is Miss Woodbridge. 

Mrs Blundell works in our classroom as a member of support staff.  

About our class

Welcome to our Lower Key Stage 2 class page. At St Mary’s Primary School, we have a mixed Year 3 and 4 class. We aim to create a warm, happy and inspiring environment where each child will be challenged and acquire knowledge and skills. Our curriculum is carefully planned as a whole school to ensure continuity and progression for all. As much as possible, we seek to enhance our curriculum through inviting visitors to school and undertaking educational visits. 

Children are taught as a class, in small groups and individually, as appropriate. A high priority is given to support children to become independent learners in Key Stage 2. We like to challenge ourselves and try to give everything a go. We take care and pride in the work we complete. We are resilient and understand that making mistakes is okay!  

In our class we are a team and have lots of fun learning, asking questions and solving problems. We feel it is very important that the children feel happy and safe in the classroom. We discuss how we can all work together to understand what makes a 'good listener' and how we can look after ourselves, our classroom and each other. We are encouraged to work independently, to apply our learning, but know how to use resources around the classroom to help us, as well as ask each other and our teachers for help, if needed.  

In Lower Key Stage 2, it is important that we read as much as possible as well as consolidate our times table knowledge. We all have TTRockstars logins and are able to choose reading books to take home.

Term 1

This term we have enjoyed reading and writing about our class texts 'Ten Word Tiny Tales', 'The Secret of Black Rock' and 'I Talk Like A River'. We have enjoyed writing our own ten word tiny tales, descriptive writing, diary entries and haikus. We have enjoyed finding and using ambitious, exciting vocabulary in our writing as well as using grammatical features such as prepositions and adverbials. 

In Maths, we have learnt about place value as well as starting our addition and subtraction unit. We have looked at representing and partitioning numbers up to 10,000, comparing and ordering numbers as well as rounding. We have also enjoyed learning our times tables and we have practised our 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, and 4s so far. The Year 4's have worked incredibly hard already with learning their times tables in preparation for their Multiplication Tables Check in Term 6. I am so proud of all of your hard work! 

Linked to our learning in History about Prehistoric Britain, we were excited to investigate a Stone Age to Iron Age Enquiry box from Weston Museum. We enjoyed getting a closer look at artefacts from Prehistoric Britain and using their inference skills to work out their uses. 

In PE, we have enjoyed playing Netball. We have learnt about the rules of netball and practised our passes. By the end of the term, we were able to play our own 4v4 games independently.