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 2

This term, Dove class will be travelling back in time to Ancient Egypt. We will be exploring how the pyramids are made, what the Ancient Egyptians believed in, designing and making Eygptian scrolls made from papyrus and sewing our own Egyptian collars. Our inspiration for our topic is the book Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx; we will be writing our own playscripts about our meeting with a god who will set us a riddle to solve a mystery. In December, Dove class will be going on a trip to Bristol museum, to have a hands on experience with Egyptian artefacts and learn about the mummification process, this will be the fabulous finisher for our topic.

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

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!