Dove - Y3/4

Welcome to Dove!

Welcome to Dove class. We are a mixed class from years 3&4 and you will find us in the classroom opposite the hall. We are a respectful, ready and safe class, who enjoy being creative. We will do lots of inspiring and engaging learning throughout the year. There will be a key focus of times tables, presentation and reading. We have an exciting year ahead!

Our teacher is Miss Blake & our teaching assistant is Miss Ponting.

If you have any questions, you can email us at FPSdove@PalladianAcademyTrust.com

Miss Babs Blake, Dove Teacher

Miss Beth Ponting, Teaching Assistant

Homework, Spellings & Knowledge Organisers, Meet the Teacher PPT can be found in the document list at the bottom of this page.

Term 4

In term four, we will be reading ‘The genius of the Mayans’,this will tie into our history topic in which will be learning all about the achievements of the ancient Mayan civilisation. We will be using this information to create our own non-chronological reports on the topic. We will also be learning all about light in science and visiting ‘We the Curious’ at the end of term. In the final week of the term, Y3/4 will be putting on a musical production for your delectation! Not to be missed!

Term 3

Year 3 and 4 have had a very busy time this term, learning all about volcanoes and rocks. We have learnt all about how volcanoes are formed and the different layers of our Earth. We have enjoyed doing practical experiments with real rocks, to test how their attributes differ. At the end of the term, we erupted our volcanos that we made for our creative homework, well done to the children, their volcanoes were amazing. This term, we have been reading ‘The Wild Robot’ by Peter Brown, we have used this text in our English lessons to write setting descriptions based on the island areas discovered by Roz the robot in the book. Puffins and Dove have been fortunate to have an expert PE coach to teach them the rules and skills of hockey, whilst Kingfishers have been machine dancing!

Term 2

This term, we have enjoyed learning about Ancient Egypt. We have been reading the book Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx and have written our own playscripts. We enjoyed our class trip to Bristol Museum and enjoyed seeing sarcophaguses and other artefacts. In maths we have been mastering our column addition and subtraction methods. We enjoyed learning about sound in science and made our own string telephones. Kingfisher and Dove have been fortunate to have a PE coach teach them the rules and skills of hockey, whilst Puffin have been playing tag rugby.

Our online visitor from the USA

We were very fortunate to have an online Egyptology lesson all the way from Tennessee, USA, courtesy of Dr Carol Eckert. She is a professor in Egyptian studies at Tennessee University, she talked the children about life in Ancient Egypt and we had a Q& A session where the children could talk to her about the upcoming creative homework.

Online history lesson from Tennessee

Charterhouse Meeting PPT - please see the documents below.

Term 1

What a busy start to the new school year.

This term year 3 and 4 have being investigating skeletons of humans and animals, many children were inspired by this and chose to make working models for their creative homework. Some children decided to look into their family tree and made some great discoveries about their family back stories.

In writing, we have written fantasy stories based on the book ‘Charlie changes into a chicken’, the children wrote about them transforming into an array of animals and the problems that might they encounter along the way. We were also fortunate to go on a trip to the Bath literacy festival and meet the author and illustrator of ‘Dexter Procter’, the children came away feeling inspired to read their own copy of the book, all 304 pages..

In Art, we have been focusing on creating 3D sculptures from 2D ideas, we have worked with clay and wire. We learnt the rules of netball and have enjoyed playing small games and shooting for goal, also in gym we have created our own routines that have incorporated; shapes, positions, jumps, rolls and balances. Mammia Mia was our song stimulus for Music this term, which we hope you enjoyed during our class assembly accompanied by glockenspiels.

We are looking forward to see what next term brings!